Multimedia: past paper questions

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• Question 5May/June 2026, paper 11Structured9 marks

  A school needs to create a new logo. The logo can be created as a bitmap image or a vector graphic. Explain how a bitmap image is encoded in a computer.

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• Question 7Oct/Nov 2025, paper 11Structured14 marks

  Web browsers use Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Complete the table by describing the following types of IP address.

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• Question 7Oct/Nov 2024, paper 12Structured7 marks

  A student takes a photograph of a science experiment. The photograph is saved as a bitmapped image. Define the following bitmap terms.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 11Structured7 marks

  Draw one line from each vector graphic term to its most appropriate description.

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• Question 1May/June 2026, paper 12Structured8 marks

  Tick (✓) one box to identify the correct definition of a pixel in a bitmap image.

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• Question 6Oct/Nov 2025, paper 12Structured6 marks

  A sound file is compressed by reducing the sampling rate. State whether this is lossless or lossy compression.

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• Question 6Oct/Nov 2024, paper 13Structured10 marks

  A computer system stores text, images and sound. A character set is used to represent characters in a computer. Identify and describe one character set.

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• Question 6Oct/Nov 2023, paper 12Structured8 marks

  A real-time video of a music concert needs to be streamed to subscribers. Tick (✓) one box to identify the most appropriate type of compression and justify your answer.

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• Question 4May/June 2026, paper 12Structured4 marks

  A sound file has a sampling rate of 44.1kHz. Describe what is meant by a sampling rate of 44.1kHz.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2025, paper 13Structured7 marksHas a diagram

  A student creates sound recordings. Making changes to a sound recording may impact the accuracy of the resulting sound file or the size of the file. Draw two lines from each change to the impacts it has on the sound file.

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• Question 2May/June 2024, paper 11Structured18 marksHas a diagram

  A video doorbell is attached to the front door of a house. The doorbell uses a motion sensor to detect when a visitor walks in front of the door. When the motion sensor is activated: • The digital camera in the doorbell starts recording a video.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 13Structured3 marks

  State what is meant by analogue data.

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• Question 3May/June 2026, paper 13Structured13 marks

  An animation is a sequence of bitmap images with a sound recording played at the same time. The sound is recorded with a sampling resolution of 2 bytes. State what is meant by a sampling resolution of 2 bytes.

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• Question 7Oct/Nov 2025, paper 13Structured14 marks

  A digital video camera records students in a classroom. The data is transferred from the digital video camera over the internet to a server.

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• Question 2May/June 2024, paper 12Structured17 marks

  A computer game is being designed that users will be able to play using a virtual reality (VR) headset. Complete the description of the principal operation of a VR headset.

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2023, paper 13Structured4 marks

  Describe the impact of increasing the image resolution on the quality of a bitmap graphic.

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• Question 3May/June 2025, paper 11Structured7 marks

  A computer stores images and text files. One of the images is a bitmapped image. Complete the table by writing the answer for each statement.

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• Question 2May/June 2024, paper 13Structured9 marks

  A photograph is stored as a bitmap image. The photograph has a resolution of 4000 pixels wide by 3000 pixels high. The bit depth is 4 bytes.

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• Question 1May/June 2023, paper 11Structured13 marks

  Images are being created to advertise holidays. Some of the images are bitmap images and some are vector graphics. Complete the table by defining the image terms.

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• Question 1May/June 2025, paper 13Structured14 marks

  A student paints a picture in an art class. The student takes a photograph of the picture using a digital camera. The digital camera creates an image with a resolution of 2 million pixels and uses a bit depth of 16 bits.

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• Question 3May/June 2023, paper 13Structured15 marks

  A mobile telephone is used to record a video. The mobile telephone has a touchscreen. There are different types of touchscreen.

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