Topic 1: Data Practice Questions

1 A company has a website that is stored on a web server.

The website hosts videos that users can stream. The company uploads new videos to
the website.

(a) The videos are compressed before they are uploaded to the website.

Pick one of the options to show which statement is a bene t of compressing the videos.

A Data is encrypted.
B Duration of each video will be reduced.
C Less storage space on the web server is required.
D More bandwidth is required when viewing the videos.
[1]

(b) Give two methods of compression that could be used to compress the videos.
[2]

2 A music company has a website that allows users to stream music. The music is
stored in sound les.

The sound les are compressed using lossless compression.

(a) Describe how the sound les are compressed using lossless compression. [4]

(b) State one reason why the music company would compress the sound les
using lossless, rather than lossy, compression. [1]

(c) Give one bene t, to the user, of the music company compressing the sound
les. [1]

(d) Give one drawback of the music company using lossless, rather than
lossy, compression for the sound les. [1]

3 An audio CD has a sample rate of 44 100 and a sample resolution of 16 bits.

The music being sampled uses two channels to allow for stereo recording.
Calculate the le size for a 60-minute recording. [2]
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 4 Nigel wants to send a large text le electronically to Mashuda.
Describe how the size of the text le can be reduced. [3]

5 During a 10 hour ight, the current status of the engine is sent to a computer in the
aeroplane.
Each piece of data collected is 8 bytes in size. Data collection occurs every 30 seconds.
(a) Calculate the number of kilobytes that would be needed to store the data collected
during a 10 hour ight. Show your working. [3]
(b) At the end of the ight all of the data are sent to the airplane engine manufacturer
using the internet.
The computer in the airplane has a MAC address and an IP address.
State what is meant by these two terms. [2]

6 Ste has a number of les of di erent sizes that contain her work.
Write either TRUE or FALSE for each of the sentences given below.
(a) 47 KB is larger than 10 MB.
(b) 250 bytes is smaller than 0.5 MB.
(c) 50 GB is larger than 100 MB.
(d) 1 TB is smaller than 4 GB. [4]

7 (a) Gordon wants to send a large le to Jennifer over the internet.

State two bene ts of compressing the le to send it. [2]
(b) Two types of compression are lossy and lossless.
Choose the most suitable type of compression for the following and explain your
choice.
(i) Downloading the code for a computer program
(ii) Streaming a video le

8 (a) Describe what is meant by the term Unicode. [2]

(b) State one similarity between Unicode and ASCII. [1]
(c) State one di erence between Unicode and ASCII. [1]
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