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Computer Science H046/01 November 2020

1. Von Neumann architecture, Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle, Program Counter (PC), Memory Address Register (MAR), Current Instruction Register (CIR), interrupt handling stages

2. Operating system functions: file management, I/O device control, memory paging benefit (non-contiguous storage), flash storage (high speed, no moving parts), utility examples (antivirus, defragmenter)

3. Car park data collection: ANPR, RFID, manual input, pros/cons (accuracy, cost, privacy), ethical/legal (GDPR, surveillance concerns)

4. Web compression (lossy JPEG), DNS resolution process (URL to IP), HTML + CSS mapping via ID and class, formatting fonts and colors

5. Binary conversion (decimal, hex, two’s complement), 8-bit binary subtraction with working, logic gate output truth table

6. LMC: assembler as translator, constructs used, pseudocode version of LMC program, RISC vs CISC (instruction complexity, hardware vs software balance)

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