AQA GCSE COMPUTER SCIENCE QUESTIONS

1) What is data?
2) What is information?
3) What is a variable?
4) What is a constant?
5) What is an identifier?
6) What is a primitive data type?
7) What does a data type determine?
8) What are the 5 data types?
9) What is an integer?
10) What is a real?
11) What is a Boolean?
12) What is a character?
13) What is a string?
14) What is a data structure?
15) What are the 2 main types of data structures?
16) What is a list?
17) What is an array?
18) Why does using data structures make coding simpler?
19) What is program flow control?
20) What are the advantages of using program flow control?
21) What are the 4 main flowchart types?
22) What is a start block?
23) What is a process block?
24) What is a decision block?
25) What is an end block?
26) What is an algorithm?
27) What are the 3 basic building blocks of coded solutions?
28) What is sequence?
29) What is selection?
30) What is iteration?
31) What is a procedure?
32) What is a function?
33) What are the 2 types of functions?
34) Why do programmers use functions and procedures?
35) What is a parameter?
36) What is a return value?
37) What is the meaning of the scope?
38) What is the meaning of local scope?
39) What is the meaning of global scope?
40) What is the meaning of procedure scope?
41) What are the 3 types of programming errors?
42) What is the meaning of syntax error?
43) What is the meaning of logic error?
44) What is the meaning of runtime error?
45) Why are logic errors hard to find?
46) What is debugging?
47) Give 5 tools used to debug?
48) What is a watch?
49) What is the meaning of breakpoints?
50) What is the meaning of steps?
51) What is the meaning of dry-run testing?
52) What is the advantage of dry-run testing?
53) What is the meaning of trace tables?
54) What is the meaning of computer system?
55) What is the meaning of hardware?
56) What is the meaning of software?
57) What is reliability?
58) What is robustness?
59) What are the 6 main pieces of hardware?
60) What does the CPU do?
61) What is the motherboard?
62) What is a graphics card?
63) What is a hard drive?
64) What is ROM?
65) What is RAM?
66) 4 developments in tech that have made smart phones possible?
67) What is the meaning of hertz
68) What is the meaning of clock speed?
69) What does a CPU do?
70) What is this known as?
71) What characteristics improve CPU performance?
72) How does the number of cores improve the CPU performance?
73) One disadvantage of multi cores?
74) One disadvantage of an increased clock speed?
75) What is cache?
76) What is a ‘cache hit’?
77) What are the main differences between mobile processors and non-mobile processors?
78) What are the 2 main categories of chip-based memory?
79) What is volatile memory?
80) What is non-volatile memory?
81) What is stored on ROM?
82) What is stored on RAM?
83) Why is it important computer have a large amount of RAM?
84) What is cache memory and what does it store?
85) 2 disadvantages of cache memory?
86) Explain why having cache memory can improve the performance of the central processing
unit (CPU):
87) 3 examples of secondary storage?
88) Advantages of solid state media over magnetic media?
89) What is an algorithm?
90) What value is a bit?
91) What value if a nibble?
92) What value is a byte?
93) What is the key conversion number?
94) The stages of converting sound to digital form/binary:
95) The stages of using binary to represent bitmap images:
96) Explain the possible limitations of using ASCII character set for global communication:
97) Advantages of using hexadecimal over binary:
98) 5 steps of the SDLC
99) 3 types of SDLC models?
100) Pros/cons of cyclical model?
101) Pros/cons of waterfall model?
102) Pros/cons of spiral model?
103) Advantages of prototyping
104) Disadvantages of prototyping?
105) What is test plans?
106) 5 types of testing?
107) What is unit testing?
108) What is integration testing?
109) What is systematic testing?
110) Pros/Cons of Unit testing?
111) Pros/cons of integration testing?
112) What is a computer network?
113) Pros/Cons of bus topology?
114) Pros/cons of Ring topology?
115) Pros/cons of star topology?
116) What is a server?
117) What is a client?
118) What is a communication media?
119) What is a peripheral device?
120) What is a user?
121) What is a protocol?
122) What is a network adapter?
123) What is the handshaking method?
124) Examples of server side programming?
125) Examples of client side programming?
126) What is external code sources?
127) Pros of external code sources?
128) Cons of external code sources?
129) What is a relational database?
130) When is a text file better than relational data base?
131) What is a field?
132) What is a foreign key?
133) What is a index?
134) What is a primary key?
135) What is a record?
136) What is a relationship?
137) What is a column?
138) What is an search criteria?
139) What is a query?
140) What are the 5 main clauses being SQL?
141) What is web based software?
142) What is client server software?
143) Pros of using client server applications
144) Ethical issues of advancements in tech?
145) What is the term digital divide?