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What is a search engine

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a SOFTWARE PROGRAM WHICH SEAERCHES A DATABASE OF OINTERNET ADRESSES TO LOCATE RESOIRCES SEARCHED FOR BY CLIENT CRITERIA

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hOW IS A PROGRAMMKNG LANGUAGE USED IN DECLARITIV LANGUIAGES

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dETERMINE how to acheiive result best way whilst abstraction details of the process from the user

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2 pros of static linkers

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Kess compatibility issues as updates to modules/libraries will not affect program and specific versions of modules and libraries can be used

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3 uses of client side processing

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Initial data validation
Web page interactivity
offline web

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second normal for m

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No partial dependencies so has to rely on all of primary key

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third normal form

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No non key dependencies

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What is consitency

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  • A transaction must maintain the referential integrity rules between linked tables

Database consistency ensures that a database remains in a valid state before and after any transaction. This means that any data written to the database must adhere to all predefined rules, constraints, and relationships

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Space for merge

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n

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space for quick

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log n

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time for quick

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n squared

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What is compression

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The process of making a file smaller/take up less storage

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What is an expert system

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a piece of software which uses databases of expert knowledge to offer advice or make decisions in such areas as medical diagnosis.

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Cons of dynamic linkers

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Your executable file may not run if the libraries are missing, outdated, or corrupted. Second, it degrades the performance of your program, as it introduces the overhead of loading and resolving the library symbols at run time.

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What is disk defragmentation

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a utility that will better organise files on the hard disk so that the operating system can access them more efficiently

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what is an overhead

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any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to perform a specific task

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Difference between get and post requests used for http

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GET is for fetching data, appending parameters in the URL, ideal for searches. POST, used for updates, sends data securely in the request body, perfect for forms.

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When are pages and segments transferred onto main memory

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When they are needed

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How could mameory be changed for instructions and data

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Instrictions read only and data rea /write, larger word size used to instructions

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What is word size

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the amount of data a CPU’s internal data registers can hold and process at one time

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What type of access does RAM offer

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Direct access

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What is 7 DIV 2

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3

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What does breadth first traversal use

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Queues

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What does depth first traversal use

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Stacks

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What is the system stack

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LIDO data structure in memory

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What do co processors help with
Floating point arithmetic and graphics processing
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What is referential integrity
Ensures the consistency of the data in a database. Generally, you would want to enforce referential integrity in a database. It requires that, whenever a foreign key value is used it must reference a valid, existing primary key in the parent table
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Durability
Changes resulting from a transaction are straightaway written back to permanent storage and not held in volatile memory (RAM). You never have to click Save in a database and a sudden power cut won't mean a transaction is lost.
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What is RAM a form of
Primary memory and is volatile
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What does multi taskign allow
Multiple programs to run at same time
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What is a firewall
A hardware device/piece of software that monitors (and filters/blocks) traffic/packets going to and from a network. (
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Why would a firewall be used
Prevent unauthorised access to a network. (1) To restrict applications that are used internally that have internet access. (1) To restrict websites that can be accessed from within the company. (1) To protect the company’s data/intellectual property.
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What else do you need to do when removign node from linked list
create a new node but no that is for adding
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How does compression save money
Using less bandwidth or data usage
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What do hash tables allow
Direct access
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What does RLE rely on
Consecutive pieces of data/characters being the same
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What happens in dictionary encoding
Frequently occuring pieces of data/groups of characters are replaced by symbols/tokens a dictionary is then used to say which symbols/tokens mathcn which group of characters
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How is dictionary decpompressed
Dictionary used to replace tokens with original text
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Remember space
Is a character
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What is RLE suited for
simple images not natural language
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When should you send the key to decrypt something
When you want it to be decrpyed
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What does TEN DAT 10 do
- Stores the value 10 (1) - In a memory location (1) - Given the label/symbolic address ten (1)
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What changes value in PC
Branching
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and
Outputs it
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RIGHT SHIFT
Moves everything to right so divides by 4 does not move decimal to right
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What is a hash
A result generated by applying an algorithm/numeric process to a valu
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What are some AI techniques
AI techniques include neural networks, evolutionary computation, Bayesian networks etc.
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What is AI the study of
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the study of computers displaying intelligent behaviour (usually characterised by decision making)
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When could the use of humans be unethical
And in the case of certain tasks (e.g. surgery) would make the use of human workers unethical
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Difference between ID and class
Only one element can have a given id/id is unique. (1) Class can be used assigned to multiple elements/used multiple times. (1)
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Do you need speech marks in css
No
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Disadvantages of client side example
- Won’t work if JavaScript is disabled. (1) - Shows incorrect message if user’s computer’s clock is wrong/in different time zone. (1) - (Source) code is visible allowing it to be copied/modified. (1)
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Libraries
Can have been written in dif language!
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What do symbol tables in lexical analysis also hold
Scope and data type
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wHAT ELSE DONE in lexical analysis
White space and stuff removed
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Amount of CPU is left idle
ok
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What happens if a swap is made in a bubble sort
A flag is set to determine wether another pass needs to be made (if it is flag is reset)
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Why would chefs use a linked list
Orders can be processed in the order they are in the queue  Orders can be inserted at any place in the list e.g. high priority item inserted earlier in the list  Orders can be deleted from any position in the list once they are complete  List is dynamic…  … to allow orders to be added / deleted
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Concurrent processing what are individual processes
Threads and each of them has a life line
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How does depth first work
 Depth-first goes to left child node when it can...  If there is no left child it goes to the right child  when there are no child nodes the algorithm ‘visits’ it’ and backtracks to the parent node.
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What can be used to represent elements of a problem with abstraction
Symbols
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What is recursion a type of
A subroutine
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Advantage and disad of compilers and interpreters
Code needs to be interpreted each time it is run however it is not platform dependant
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Why do compilers require more memory
Generates Object Code which further requires linking, hence requires more memory. whereas interpreters do not generate object code
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Give two examples of reusable components
Objects and functions
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What is ISR
a software routine that hardware invokes in response to an interrup
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What does a secondary index require
Increases data need to be kept consistent
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Secondary index is not
Less accurate
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Method of capturing temperature
Thermistor
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What is thinking ahead
the planning of inputs, ouputs and preconditions that the program will adhear to. By 'Thinking Ahead
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What does cashing free
Bandwidth on the network for other tasks
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What is a virtual core
A CPU that has separation between two areas of the processor is
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Are procedural and OOP imperitive or declaritive
Imperitive
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2 specific things about lists
sequenced and abstract
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4c or c1
4C
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header html
header not head as different
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