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aqa A-level COMPUTER SCIENCE Paper 2 (7517/2) Question Paper June2023
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aqa A-level COMPUTER SCIENCE Paper 2 (7517/2) Question Paper June2023
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A-level
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Paper 2
7517/2
Monday 19 June 2023 Morning Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
Materials
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For this paper you must have:
a calculator. Question Mark
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Instructions
Use black ink or black ball-point pen. 2
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. 3
Answer all questions. 4
You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside
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the box around each page or on blank pages.
If you need extra space for your answer(s), use the lined pages at the end of 6
this book. Write the question number against your answer(s). 7
Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to 8
be marked.
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The marks for questions are shown in brackets. 11
The maximum mark for this paper is 100.
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0 1 . 1 A sound is sampled and recorded digitally. The sound is sampled at a rate of 48 000
samples per second (Hz) for 3 minutes using a 16-bit sample resolution.
Calculate the size of the digital recording, giving your answer in mebibytes.
Give your answer rounded to 2 decimal places.
You should show your working.
[2 marks]
mebibytes
0 1 . 2 The highest frequency component in a different sound is 15 000 Hz.
What is the minimum sampling rate that should be used when recording this sound to
ensure that all the frequencies in the original waveform are preserved, so that when
the recording is played back the original sound is recreated accurately?
[1 mark]
Hz
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outside the
0 1 . 3 Figure 1 shows part of the process of playing back a sound that has been sampled. box
The binary sound data is used to generate an electrical waveform.
Figure 1
A hardware component on a sound card carries out the process shown in Figure 1.
State the name of this component.
[1 mark]
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