Ordinary level 2024 North West regional mock computer science 2
Ordinary level 2024 North West regional mock computer science 2
Mr. Tambo goes to a computer vendor to buy a laptop computer for hia son study ing computer sconce
in tire university ofllantenda. He sees a sticker on the laptop with the following inwnpttons
•Model: HP
•Solid state drive capacity : 1Terabyte
•RAM : 8GB
•Processor : 3.5 GHz Quadcore
,t ) i) Hi icily explain, what determines the speed of the Laptop /
IB Give (he lull moaning of the.acronym PrAM and state its function
iii) Explain the meaning of 3.5 GHz Quadcore (1 mark)
iv ) How many flash drives of capacity 104048MB will be needed to successfully do a hac kup ot 11 II
(3 nut kO
( 2 nt«ik» )
(2 marks)
solid sti|te drive
v ) DilTcrontiate between solid state and magnetic tape drive in terms of storage mechanism ( 2 maik* )
f < i 1 / *
b) ( onsider the logic diagram below
