Past Paper Questions

Section 1.2 (Text, Sound and Images)

May/June 2023 (0478/11)

2. A student has a sound file that is too large to be stored on their external secondary storage device.
The student compresses the sound file to make the file size smaller.
The compression method used reduces the sample rate and the sample resolution of the sound
file.
(a) State what is meant by the sample rate and sample resolution.
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Oct/Nov 2023 (0478/11)

5 A musician is recording herself playing the music for a song on the piano.
(a) Explain how the analogue sound is recorded and converted to digital.
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(b) State two ways that the accuracy of the recording could be increased.
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(d) The musician types the words for the song into a document.
Two character sets that can be used when converting text to digital are the American standard
code for information interchange (ASCII) and Unicode.
Explain the differences between the ASCII character set and the Unicode character set.
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Oct/Nov 2023 (0478/12)

5 A band is recording their new song. They need to consider the sample rate and sample resolution
of their recording.
(a) Give one benefit of using a higher sample rate to record the song.
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(b) Give one drawback of using a higher sample rate to record the song.
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(c) Describe what is meant by sample resolution.
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Oct/Nov 2023 (0478/13)

7 A photographer takes an image with a digital camera. The photographer sets the resolution and
colour depth for the image.
(a) State what is meant by the image resolution.
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(b) State what is meant by the image colour depth.
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(c) Give one benefit of increasing the colour depth of the image.
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