[Solved Past Paper] Specimen Paper 1A IGCSE 0478 | O-Level 2210

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00:14 Question 1: networking, MAC address, media-access control, hexadecimal, binary, bit, byte, register, memory address, colour codes, IPv6, logical left shift, negative binary, two's complement

12:43 Question 2: website, web server, packet switching, data, transmission, source IP address, destination IP address, packet number, trailer, streaming, encryption, storage space, bandwidth, compression, lossy, lossless, parallel, serial, simplex, half-duplex, full-duplex, speed, skew, DDoS, distributed denial of service, hacker, bot, botnet, traffic, firewall

29:15 Question 3: IP address, static, dynamic, public, private, denary, groups, unique, router, uniform resource locator, URL, protocol, domain, file, path

34:20 Question 4: Von Neumann architecture, accumulator, hard disk drive (HDD), memory address register (MAR), program counter (PC), random access memory (RAM), read only memory (ROM), sensor, solid-state drive (SSD), control unit (CU), decode instructions, clock signal, single core, dual core, simultaneous execution, parallelism, execution, bootstrap, application software, firmware, hard disk drive, MAC address

45:12 Question 5: high-level language, program, low-level, libraries, speed, memory usage, easy to understand, direct hardware access, IDE, syntax highlighting, code-suggestions, auto-completion, error corrections, debugger, code editor

50:35 Question 6: robot, robotics, programmable, electronic, mechanical, safety, speed, accuracy, availability

53:21 Question 7: character set, Unicode, ASCII, standard, extended, unique binary value

58:16 Question 8: virtual memory, processes, programs, RAM, random-access memory, secondary storage, swap, page, paging, partitioning

1:05:53 Question 9: symmetric encryption, algorithm, cipher, key, plaintext, private key, public key, ciphertext, asymmetric encryption, SSL, secure socket layer, TLS, transport layer security, digital certificate, digital signature

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