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ILS Computing Y8 Halftermtest2 Set 1

The document is a Year 8 half-term computing test focused on data management and binary conversion. It includes questions on file transfer, base systems, binary conversions, and image compression techniques. The test is designed to assess students' understanding of data representation and manipulation in computing.

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ILS Computing Y8 Halftermtest2 Set 1

The document is a Year 8 half-term computing test focused on data management and binary conversion. It includes questions on file transfer, base systems, binary conversions, and image compression techniques. The test is designed to assess students' understanding of data representation and manipulation in computing.

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Year 8 Half-term Computing test

Term 2: Data on the web

Name:

Class: Date:

1 A student is transferring files between two computers


using a 2GiB (gibibyte) USB pen drive.

a) 
How many 200MiB (mebibyte) presentation
files can be copied to the drive at once?

b) 
Which of the following is the term used to
represent one individual character or letter?

A bit

B kibibyte

C mebibyte

D byte
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2 a) 
Our traditional way of counting in denary is
described as which base system?

A base-10

B base-16

C base-2

D base-8
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b) How many bits form a byte?

A four

B two

C ten

D eight
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3 All numbers must be translated into binary for a


computer to understand.

a) 
Convert the denary number 140 into 8-bit binary.

b) 
Convert the denary number 24 into 8-bit binary.

c) 
Convert the 8-bit binary number 01101010
into denary.

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d) 
Convert the 8-bit binary number 10001100
into denary.

4 A designer has created a bitmap image that needs to


be compressed in order to email it to a client.

a) 
State a common image file format that uses
compression.

b) 
Use Run Length Encoding (RLE) to compress
the image shown.

W = White and B = Black.

W B B B

B W W W

W B B W

W W W B

B B B W

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Total for test: 12 marks
My score: marks

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