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1
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What are Analogue signals?

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Pieces of continuously changing data

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Why do Analogue signals need to be converted into digital data?

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So computers can read and store sound files

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What is Sampling?

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The process of converting analogue to digital

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What factors affect size and quality of Sound files?

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  • Bit depth
  • Sample rate
  • Bit rate
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What is Bit depth?

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Number of bits available for each sample

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What is Sample rate?

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How many samples you take in a second

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What is lossless compression?

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Makes the file temporarily smaller by removing data to store the file

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What is a network protocol?

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A set of rules for how devices communicate and how data is transmitted across a network

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What is a communication protocol?

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  • Specify how communication between two devices must start and end
  • How data must be organised
  • What devices must do if it goes missing
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What are Mac addresses?

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48 or 64 bit binary numbers
—> Binary numbers are converted into hex

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What does HTTP stand for?

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Hyper text transfer protocol

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What is a HTTP used for?

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Used by web browsers to access websites and communicate with web servers

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What does HTTPS stand for?

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HTTP secure

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What is a HTTPS used for?

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  • A more secure version of HTTP
  • Encrypts all info sent and received
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What does FTP stand for?

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File transfer protocol

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What is a FTP used for?

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Used to access and move files between devices on a computer

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17
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What does POP3 stand for?

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Post office protocol (version 3)

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18
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What is a POP3 used for?

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  • Used to retrieve emails from a server
  • The server holds email until you download it, it’ll then be deleted after
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What does IMAP stand for?

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Internet message access protocol

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What is a IMAP used for?

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  • Used to retrieve emails from a server
  • The server holds email until you delete it
    —> WE only download a copy
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21
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Who uses IMAP the most?

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Web-based email clients

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22
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What does SMTP stand for?

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Simple mail transfer protocol

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What is a SMTP used for?

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  • Used to send emails
  • Used to transfer emails between servers
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24
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What is a layer?

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A group of protocols which have similar functions

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25
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What are the 4 layers called?

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  • Applications layer
  • Transport layer
  • Internet layer
  • Link layer
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26
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What is an Applications layer?

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A networking layer which encodes or decodes a message
–> In a form that is understood by the sender and the recipient

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27
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Which protocols operate in the Applications layer?

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  • HTTP/S
  • SMTP
  • IMAP
  • FTP
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What is an Transport layer?

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A networking layer which determines how a message is transmitted over a network

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29
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Which protocols operate in the transport layer?

30
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What is an Internet layer?

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Addresses and packages data, ready for transmission.
—> Then routes the packets across the network

31
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Which protocols operate in the Internet layer?

32
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What is a Link layer?

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A networking layer which facilities the transmission of a message across a network

33
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What operates in the link layer?

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  • NIC
  • Operating system drivers
34
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What are the advantages of layers?

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  • Breaks network communications into manageable pieces
  • Self-contained
  • Has standards
35
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How is breaking network communications into manageable pieces an advantage in relation with layers?

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Helps developers concentrate only on one area of the network without having to worry about the others

36
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How does layers being self contained an advantage?

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An individual layer can be changed without it affecting the other layers

37
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How does layers having standards an advantage?

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Forces companies to make compatible, universal hardware & software
—> Different brands will work with each other

38
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What is a DNS server?

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Stores a list of domain names and a list of corresponding IP addresses where the website is stored

39
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What are the steps taken to display a Webpage?

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  • Domain name is typed into the address bar of a browser
  • A query is sent to the local DNS server for the corresponding IP address of the domain name
  • Local DNS server will check if it holds that IP address to that domain name
    —> If it does it will pass the IP address to your browser
  • The browser then connect to the IP address of the server and accesses the web site
40
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What will happen if the local DNS server does not hold the IP address?

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Then another query is passed to another DNS server @a higher level until

41
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What is the first stage of the FDE cycle?

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The memory address held in the program counter is copied into the MAR

42
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What happens after the memory address held in the program counter is copied into the MAR?

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address in the program counter is then incremented by one

43
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What happens after the address in the program counter is then incremented by one?

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The processor sends a signal along the address bus to the memory address held in the MAR.

44
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What happens after the processor sends a signal along the address bus to the memory address held in the MAR?

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The instruction/data held in that memory address is sent along the data bus to the MDR

45
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What happens after the instruction/data held in that memory address is sent along the data bus to the MDR?

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The instruction/data held in the MDR is copied into the CIR

46
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What happens after the instruction/data held in the MDR is copied into the CIR?

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  • The instruction/data held in the CIR is decoded and then executed. * Results of processing are stored in the ACC
47
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What happens after the instruction/data held in the CIR is decoded and then executed?

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The cycle then returns to step one

48
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What is ASCII?

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  • 7 bits
  • 128 character set
49
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What languages would use ASCII?

50
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What is Extended ASCII?

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  • 8 bits
  • 256 character set
51
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What languages would use Extended ASCII?

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French, Spanish

52
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What is Unicode?

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  • 16 bits
  • Over 65,000 characters
53
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What languages would use Unicode?

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Mandarin, Arabic

54
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How is bit rate calculated?

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bit depth x sample rate

55
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What are some lossy formats?

56
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What are some lossless formats?

57
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What are routers used for?

A

To send data signals across the internet

58
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How do routers work?

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Collects knowledge of available routes to transmit data
—> Then determine the most suitable route for sending data

59
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What is a WAP?

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Uses a radio transceiver to allow wireless connections to a network

60
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How can WAPs extended the range of a wireless network?

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WAP can either receive and transmit traffic to other WAPs

or

It can be connected via a cable to the main network

61
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What factors affect network performance?

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  • Number of devices on the network
  • Bandwidth of the transmission medium
  • Type of network
  • Network latency
62
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What is bandwidth?

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A measure of the amount of data that the medium can transfer over a given period of time

63
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What is network latency?

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A measure of how long it takes a message to travel from one device to another across a network

64
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High latency

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lots of delays

65
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Low latency

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Small amount of delays

66
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What will the latency be like in a hub based network and why?

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High latency - hubs broadcast all messages to all devices

67
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What will the latency be like in a switch based network and why?

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Low latency - transmit messages only to the intended recipient

68
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Advantages of cloud storage?

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  • Ability to access files from any location or any device
    –> so long as an internet connection exists
  • Access can be granted to another user so they can remotely access your data
  • Reduced need to make backups
  • cloud storage services back up the data for you
69
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Disadvantages of cloud storage?

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  • No guarantee that someone else is not accessing your data
  • No guarantee that your data is being backed-up
  • Access to data is only possible with an internet connection - no connection means no access to data
70
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Advantages of star network?

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  • Each node is separately connected - if one fails it will not affect the rest of the network
  • Higher performance - message only passed onto intended recipient
71
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Disadvantages of star network?

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If switch fails as no node can communicate - whole network fails

Expensive - requires plenty of cable

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