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1.1.1 FDE, CPU, Von Neumann.
What is the central processing un...,
What is opcode operation code 2,
What is operand 3
19  cards
1.1 Buses, Programming
What is a high level programming ...,
What is low level language 2,
What are the three buses 3
6  cards
1.1 Processors
What are the three factors affect...,
What is clock speed 2,
What is cache memory 2 points 3
7  cards
1.1 Machine Code
What is machine code 1,
What is assembly language 2,
What does the inp command do 3
10  cards
1.1 Architecture, CISC, RISC, GPUs
What is harvard architecture 1,
What is an advantage of harvard a...,
What is a disadvantage of harvard...
9  cards
1.1 Multitasking
What is parallel processing 1,
What is multicore processing 2
2  cards
1.1 Primary VS Secondary Memory
What is primary memory 1,
What is volatile memory 2,
What is a register 3
18  cards
1.2 Role of the OS
What is the operating system os 1,
How does the os work 3 points 1,
What are the 5 roles of the os 2
12  cards
1.2 Types of OS
What does the bios do 2 points 1,
What is a multi tasking system 2,
What is a multi user multi taskin...
11  cards
1.2 Processor Scheduling
What are interrupts 1,
Explain the steps of interrupt pr...,
What are some examples of why int...
10  cards
1.2 Software
What is system software 1,
What is software 1,
What is application software 2
11  cards
1.2 Translators
What are translators 1,
What is a assembler 2,
What is a interpreter 3
8  cards
1.2 Compilers
What is lexical 1,
What is syntax 2,
What is lexical analysis 3
9  cards
1.2 Linkers Loaders & Development
What are linkers and loaders 1,
What is a library 2,
What is bytecode 3
5  cards
1.2.3 Software Development
State some advantages and disadva...,
State the stages of the waterfall...,
State the stages of the cyclical ...
12  cards
1.3.3 Network Security
What is malware 1,
What is a virus 2,
What are 2 examples of malware 3
16  cards
1.4.2 Data Structures & in Paper 2
What is a graph 1,
What is the definition for node v...,
What is an edge arc 3
29  cards
2.1 Thinking Abstractly, ahead,logically, concurrently and Procedurally
What are computational tasks 1,
What are the key parts of a compu...,
What is the definition of thinkin...
17  cards
2.1 Backtracking, Data Mining and Heuristics
What is the definition of backtra...,
What is the definition of data mi...,
What are the steps for data mining 3
7  cards
2.2 Search engine Indexing
What is an index 1,
What is a web crawler 2,
What are the steps that a web cra...
4  cards
2.3 Algorithms
What is the big o notation 1,
State all the big o notations fro...,
Which big o notation has the smal...
30  cards
1.4.1 Data Types
What is a mantissa 1,
What is an exponent 2,
What is positive floating point n...
14  cards
1.4.3 Boolean Logic
What is a boolean 1,
What is boolean algebra 2,
What is a truth table 3
22  cards
1.5 Ethics
What are ethics 1,
What is a stakeholder 2,
Give some examples of identifying...
17  cards
1.3.1 Exchanging Data
What is lossless compression 1,
What is lossy compression 2,
What is run length encoding 2 poi...
14  cards
1.3.2 Databases
What is a database 1,
What is an entity 2,
What is a record 3
26  cards
1.3.3 Introduction To Networks
What is a node 1,
What is a network 2,
What are the advantages of a netw...
15  cards
1.3 Clients and Servers
What is a server 1,
What is a client 2,
What is client server 3
8  cards
1.3 Wireless networking
What is a wireless access point w...,
What is wireless networking 2,
What is the 24ghz band 3
15  cards
1.3 Structure of the Internet
What is an internet protocol ip a...,
What is the function of a media a...,
What are the key differences betw...
20  cards
Paper 2 , cram here
What is recursion 2 points 1,
What are some advantages and disa...,
What is iteration 3
13  cards

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