1. 1. Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos
1. Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos. The memory in her camera is now full and she needs to transfer her photos to an external secondary storage device.
Define what is meant by ‘secondary storage’.
2 marks

2. 2. Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos
2. Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos. The memory in her camera is now full and she needs to transfer her photos to an external secondary storage device.
Identify the three common storage technologies Vicky can choose from.
3 marks

3. 3. Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos
3. Vicky has been on holiday and has taken lots of photos. The memory in her camera is now full and she needs to transfer her photos to an external secondary storage device.
State four characteristics of secondary storage devices that Vicky should consider when choosing a device.
4 marks

4. 4. Explain whether secondary storage is volatile or non volatile
3 marks

5. 5. Would you use magnetic, optical or solid state storage for the following scenario. Give reasons for your decision
Storing pictures in a digital camera
2 marks

6. 6. Would you use magnetic, optical or solid state storage for the following scenario. Give reasons for your decision
Handheld device used by students for field work
2 marks

7. 7. Would you use magnetic, optical or solid state storage for the following scenario. Give reasons for your decision
Storage drives on the schools main server
2 marks

8. 8. Would you use magnetic, optical or solid state storage for the following scenario. Give reasons for your decision
Videos of the schools production to be given to parents
2 marks

9. 9. Some secondary storage devices are magnetic others are solid state
9. Some secondary storage devices are magnetic others are solid state. Describe the characteristics of magnetic and solid state secondary storage
6 marks

10. 10. Estimate the file size of each of the following files
A text file that contains characters. Give your answer in KB
2 marks

11. 11. Estimate the file size of each of the following files
A database has 6 fields and 200 records. Give your answer in KB
CDNumber, a text field with 6 characters
Title, a text field with max. 20 characters
Artist, a text field with max. 15 characters
DatePublished
NumberOfTracks, an integer field
TotalLength, a real field
2 marks
Text = 1 byte per character.
Integer = 4 bytes
Real = 4 bytes
Date = 8 bytes

12. 12. Estimate the file size of each of the following files
An image is 2030 x 1000 pixels in size. It has colours (2 bytes each).
2 marks

13. 13. Estimate the file size of each of the following files
A sound file has 4 bytes per sample. It takes 100 samples per second, over 1 channel and is 2 minutes 30 seconds long (you need to convert the minutes into seconds).
2 marks
bytesPerSample * samplesPerSecond * channels * duration

14. 14. What is a variable?
2 marks

15. 14. Give an example of a variable you have used and explain why it was needed
2 marks

16. 15. What is type casting?
1 marks

17. 16. Give an example of where you have used type casting and explain why it was needed
2 marks

18. 18. What is the difference between using a for loop and a while loop
18. What is the difference between using a for loop and a while loop. Give an example of when you would use a while loop
3 marks

19. 17. Draw the flowchart for the following scenario
I would like a program that asks the user for their name. It should then ask them what the capital of France is. If they say Paris it should say well done and if they say anything else it should say sorry incorrect.
6 marks