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For the uneducated:

Our school provides the IGCSE Comp Sci 0478 course (instead of ICT now), but the school’s selection of teachers are suboptimal. Despite their best efforts to teach us as much as they can, computer science is a hard subject for many and they may need a revision guide to help them.

Tested topics

From the homework post,

Chapter 2 Data transmission

  • structure of data packets & contents
  • packet switching
  • methods of transmission (serial, parallel, HD & FD)
  • USB
  • error detection - parity check, checksum, echocheck
  • check digits - ISBN 13 and Modulo 11 (know how GENERATE and RECALCULATE) NO CALCULATOR ALLOWED
  • ARQ
  • Encryption

Chapter 3 Hardware

  • CPU Dual core & quad core processors
  • Von neumann architecture
  • control bus, address bus, data bus
  • fetch-decode-execute cycle
  • instruction sets
  • embedded systems
  • qr codes
  • RAM, ROM, DRAM, SRAM
  • virtual memory
  • MAC addresses
  • router

Chapter 9 Databases

  • structure of flat file - fields, records, validation
  • data types
  • use of primary keys
  • SQL scripts to query data