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Topic 3 - Data Flashcards

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What is Binary?

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A Base-2 numbering system. (only has 2 digits - 0 and 1)

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What is Denary?

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A Base-10 numbering system (from 0 - 9)

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What is a nibble (in bits)?

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4 bits.

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When there is an extra digit in a binary calculation, what is this called?

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Overflow.

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What does ‘1’ represent in Sign and Magnitude?

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Negative

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What does ‘0’ represent in Sign and Magnitude?

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Positive

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What is a Hexadecimal?

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A Base-16 numbering system (16 digits. It shares 0-9 with denary then uses letters A-F)

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Why are Hexadecimals used?

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They simplify long streams of bits

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What are Real Numbers?

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Numbers with an integer part and a fractional part.

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What is the scientific notation of representing floating point binary?

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Mantissa x Base^Exponent

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What is the name of the subset that ASCII is in?

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Unicode

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Why is Unicode better than ASCII?

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It can represent a wider range of characters (e.g. from other languages such as: é)

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What is a Bitmap?

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An image stored as an array of individual pixels.

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What is a Pixel?

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An individual picture element.

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What is Colour Depth?

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The number of bits allocated to represent each colour

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What is ‘Resolution’ of an image?

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The detail it holds within an image.

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How can ‘Resolution’ be displayed as?

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width x height OR the number of ‘Pixels Per Inch (PPI) ‘

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What are Analogue Signals?

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They’re continuous, they don’t have defined ranges, and are represented often by waves.

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What are Digital Signals?

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They form discrete values (they fall within a defined range and can only take certain values).

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What are three everyday examples of Analogue Signals?

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Sound, temperature and light intesity

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What is Sampling?

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The process of recording an analogue signal at regular intervals.

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What is ‘Sampling Frequency’ ?

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The average number of samples obtained per second. Measured in Hertz (Hz)

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What is Quantisation?

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The process of approximating the analogue values to predetermined discrete levels.

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What is a bit?

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1 or 0

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What is a byte?
8 bits / 2 nibbles
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What is a Kilobyte (in bytes) ?
1024 bytes (2^10 bytes)
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What is a Megabyte in KB?
1024 KB (2^20 bytes)
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What is a Gigabyte in MB?
1024 MB (2^30 bytes)
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What is a Terabyte in GB?
1024 GB (2^40 bytes)
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What is the formula of Transfer Rate?
Transfer rate = b/s
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What is data compression?
The reduction of file size whilst retaining the underlying information.
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What is Lossy Compression?
Some of the original data is lost
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What are two examples of lossy algorithms?
MP3 (audio) and JPEG (images)
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What is Lossless Compression?
Compresses the data without losing any data
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What is an example of Lossless Compression?
Run-length encoding (RLE)
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How does RLE work?
It collects all the like terms together (e.g. y y y = 3y)
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What is encryption?
The process of making data secret to that only authorized viewers can decrypt and read the data, and third parties cannot.
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What are the 5 steps of encryption?
1. Message written in plaintext 2. Message is encrypted into ciphertext 3. Message is sent 4. Message is received 5. Message is decrypted back into plaintext
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Why is encryption used (2 reasons) ?
1. To protect data | 2. To verify the sender
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How does a Caesar Cipher algorithm work?
Letters in the alphabet are shifted depending on the shift key
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What are the two arrangements of data?
Structured and unstructured
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What are the differences between structured and unstructured data?
Structured - arranged in an organised and defined way. | Unstructured - cannot be easily mapped by a computer in predefined fields.
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What is a Database?
A collection of information that is organised so that it can be easily accessed, managed and updated.
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What is a Relational database?
Consists of tables linked together with each other by key fields.
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What is a table?
A two-dimensional representation of data that is stored in rows and columns.
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What is a Field?
Single piece of data about an entity
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What is a Record?
The group of fields about a specific entity (a row)
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What is a Report?
A presentation of data from the database
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What are Queries?
Requests of data stored in the database
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What is an Entity?
An object/person/thing about which data is stored.
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What is an Entity Relationship?
A model used to identify entities and how they relate when designing a database.
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What is a relationship?
Link between entities.
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What is a primary key?
A field that uniquely identifies a record.
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What is a Composite Key?
A combination of fields in a table used to uniquely identify a record.
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What is a Foreign Key?
A field in one table that is a primary key in another table.
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What is Structured Query Language (SQL) ?
A specialised programming language for creating database structures and managing data in them.
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What does INSERT do?
Enters a record into the table and stores the value in the specified column.
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How does INSERT work?
INSERT INTO TableName (Field1, Field2...) | VALUES ("abc123", "abc123")
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How do you create a table?
CREATE TABLE TableName | ColumnName datatype, ...
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How do you UPDATE something?
UPDATE TableName SET (ColumnName = Value, ...) WHERE ;
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How do you DELETE something?
DELETE * FROM TableName; (deletes everything) DELETE FROM Student WHERE Student
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How do you SELECT something?
SELECT (ColumnName) FROM TableName [WHERE ] [ORDER BY (ColumnName,...)];

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