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OCR A Level Computer ScienceH446/01 Computer Systems MERGED QUESTION PAPER WITH MARK SCHEME FOR JUNE 2024

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Monday 10 June 2024 – Afternoon
A Level Computer Science
H446/01 Computer Systems
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1 The stored program concept uses the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle to get the next instruction
from memory and then execute it.

(a) Describe what happens during the fetch stage of the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle.

You should state the different registers and buses that are used in your answer.

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(b) One of the instructions that may be fetched and executed as part of this cycle is a branch
instruction.

State the name of the register that would be altered in the execute phase during a branch
instruction.

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(c) Three ways of improving the performance of a CPU are increasing the clock speed, adding more
cores and using pipelining.

Explain how pipelining improves the performance of a CPU.

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(d) The Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers. It starts with the number 0 and then 1. Each
number after that is a sum of the two numbers before it.

The first seven numbers in the series are:
0
1
1 (i.e. 1 + 0)
2 (i.e. 1 + 1)
3 (i.e. 1 + 2)
5 (i.e. 2 + 3)
8 (i.e. 3 + 5)

Orla has written some code to show the first five numbers in the Fibonacci sequence (0,1,1,2,3)
using the Little Man Computer (LMC) instruction set.

The LMC code that Orla has written contains an error.

START LDA MAX
BRZ END
LDA A
OUT
ADD B
STA B
LDA B
STA A
LDA MAX
SUB ONE
STA MAX
BRA START
END HLT
A DAT 0
B DAT 1
MAX DAT 5
ONE DAT 1

(i) State the five outputs that Orla’s code would give.

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Output 2 ...........................................................................................................................................

Output 3 ...........................................................................................................................................

Output 4 ...........................................................................................................................................

Output 5 ...........................................................................................................................................
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