Testcope02115010 MAY/JUNE2009 ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION COMPUTER SCIENCE - UNIT 1 Paper 01 90 minutes READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. 1. Thistest consists of 45 items. You will have 90 minutes to answer them, 2. Inadditiontothistestbooklet, you should have an answer sheet. 3, Eachitem in this testhas four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C),(D). Readeach item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best. 4, Onyouranswersheet, find thenumberwhich corresponds to your'item and shade the space having the same letter as the answer you have chosen. Look at the sample item below. sample tem How many selection lines doesan 8x | multiplexerhave? (A) 1 ‘Sample Answer (By) 2 os @Oe@o ‘The best answer to this item is “3”, so answer space (C) has been shaded. Ifyou want to change your answer, be sure to erase it completely and fill in your new choice. 6. When youaretoldtobegin, tum the page and work as quickly andas carefully as youcan. Ifyou cannotanswer an item, omititand go onto the nextone. Your score will be the total number of correct answers. 7. Youmay doany rough workin this booklet. Figures are not necessarily drawn to scale. 9, Theuseofnon-programmable calculatorsisallowed. 10. Donotbeconcemed thatthe answer sheet provides spaces for more answers than there are items inthistest. DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO. Copyright ©2008 Caribbean Examinations Council®. llrightsreserved (02115010/CAPE 2009 4 namovasxiay §‘What isthe decimal equivalent of 00011001, a) 2 B® 3 © B O % What is the LARGEST integer that can be represented in a 4-bit signed magnitude? a 8 ®) 47 © ©) HS A computer designer wishes to have ready access to instructions which need to be retrieved quickly. Which of the following storage devices accesses information in the FEWEST clock cycles? (A) Hard drive (B) Floppy disk (©) Cache memory (D) Random access memory ‘What device should be used to properly close all open files and log off the computer when there isan electricity outage? (A) Surge protector (B) Voltage regulator (©) PDA (D) UPS Item 5 refers to the following components of ‘computer system, I ALU cu I. Registers IV. RAM Which of the components above does a typical CPU contain? (A) Land Ill only (B) —_LandITonly (©) 1,Mand itt only (D) 1.1L and IV The decode part of the fetch-decode-exeeute cycle ina computer involves (A) finding the location ofan instruction (B) determining what the operands are (©) determining what the operation is (D) extracting the data for the various instruction fields, Which of the following devices is used to store permanent binary information? (A) ROM (B) RAM (© EPROM (D) EEPROM ‘Whats the name of the combinational circuit which converts binary information from rn coded inputs to a maximum of 2° unique outputs? (A) Multiplexer (B) Encoder (©) Decoder (D) LogicGate10 uw 12. -3- Which of the following functional devices is 13. found ina processor? (a) cpu (B) Harddisk (© Screen (D) Mouse Which ofthe following statements about logic 14. gates are TRUE? 1. A gate isa fundamental building block of a logic circuit I NANDis one of the basic gates used in digital logic TH. Agate can have only one input and only one output 15, IV. A gate can be defined using a truth table (A) Land IV only (B) Land only (©) Land IV only (D) Land IVonly Which of the following statements about fip- flops are TRUE" 1. Flip-flops are examples of defective logic circuits, 16. Il, Flip-flops are two-state devices that can only store 1’sand 0's. MHL Registers are made up of flip-flops. (A) Land only (B) — Tandiifonly (© Mand ftlonly ) 1 Mand.tTonty The range of instructions that a computer can execute is known as the (A) instruction set (B) instruction size (C) executable instructions (D) — wordsize Which of the following components are found in the CPU? (A) ALUand Internal cache (B) ALU, CU and Registers (©) ALU,RAMand Internal cache (D) ALU, Intemal cache and Registers Which of the following computers is the MOST portable? (A) Supercomputer (B) Laptop (© Microcomputer () PDA Alist of computers is given below. List them in order from SMALLEST to LARGEST. I PDA T.— Supercomputer ML Laptop IV. Microcomputer (LIV (B) UHL 1,1V, 11 (© mtv () UL IVn An algorithm refers to (A) a set of coded instructions to be executed (B) _acollection of instructions that the ‘computer can execute (©) a step-by-step solution to solve a specific problem (D)__theoutput ofa program GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE.