Is50004a PDF
Is50004a PDF
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE
Department of Computing
IS50004A
Study skills and introduction to the use of computers
There are FOUR questions in this paper. You should answer Question 1 and two of
Questions 2-4. You should answer no more than THREE questions. Question 1 carries
40 marks and Questions 2-4 carry 30 marks each. The marks for each part of a
question are indicated at the end of the part in [.] brackets.
a. Explain what is meant by the following terms in the context of data protection:
i. Data subject
ii. Data controller
iii. Sensitive personal data
[6 marks]
b. Why is it important for website designers to ensure that their content can be
accessed by people with disabilities? [4 marks]
c. Explain the concept of layering in networked computing, and describe the five
layers of the TCP/IP stack.
[8 marks]
e. Explain in one or two sentences what is meant by each of the following types
of attack on computer systems:
QUESTION 2.
a. Which TCP/IP layers do the following protocols belong to? Briefly state the
functions defined for each protocol, for instance IMAP: Application layer
email protocol which keeps all messages on server.
i. HTTP
ii. TCP
iii. DHCP
iv. DNS
[8 marks]
b.
i. Explain why the HTTP/2 protocol has been developed as a
replacement for HTTP/1.x.
ii. Describe three key differences between HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.x.
[8 marks]
c. What is the preferred character-set encoding for email and web pages?
Describe some important differences between this encoding and the original
ASCII character set.
[8 marks]
d. Describe two features that can make web pages more accessible to users with
disabilities.
[6 marks]
[8 marks]
[5 marks]
i. Programmed I/O
ii. Interrupt driven I/O
iii. Direct memory access (DMA) [9 marks]
d. Briefly describe the standard instruction execution cycle and a technique that
is commonly used to make it run more efficiently.
[8 marks]
QUESTION 4.
c. Principle 8 of the Data Protection Act (DPA) forbids the transfer of personal
data to countries outside the European Economic Area, unless safeguards
equivalent to the provisions of the DPA are in force. Describe one scheme
which was set up to enable transfers from within the EU to the USA, and
discuss any problems that have arisen with the implementation of this scheme.
[10 marks]
[6 marks]
END OF EXAMINATION
IS50004A Spring 2016 4