The internet and the world wide web: past paper questions

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• Question 6May/June 2026, paper 11Structured10 marks

  Web pages need to be located and retrieved to be displayed on a device. Complete the paragraph about locating and retrieving web pages.

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• Question 5Oct/Nov 2025, paper 11Structured11 marksHas a diagram

  A supermarket wants to start delivering groceries to local elderly people, using robots. Describe the characteristics of a robot.

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• Question 7Oct/Nov 2024, paper 12Structured14 marks

  A student enters the uniform resource locator (URL) for a web page into their tablet computer. State what is meant by a URL.

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• Question 9Oct/Nov 2023, paper 12Structured6 marks

  The table contains terms and descriptions about the internet. Complete the table with the missing terms and descriptions.

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• Question 5May/June 2026, paper 13Structured9 marks

  A student develops a program for their computer science project using a high-level language. Identify two translators that the student could use when developing the program.

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• Question 6Oct/Nov 2025, paper 12Structured14 marks

  An online clothing company has a homepage at the uniform resource locator (URL) https://www.cieclothes.com/index.html Write down the three different parts of…

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• Question 4Oct/Nov 2024, paper 13Structured6 marks

  Complete the table to give the missing term or description for the internet terms.

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• Question 4Oct/Nov 2023, paper 13Structured5 marks

  An employee uses a web browser on their computer. Describe the main purpose of a web browser.

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• Question 4Oct/Nov 2025, paper 13Structured12 marks

  A cyber security company specialises in security solutions that help prevent hackers being successful. Identify two security solutions that can be provided to help prevent hackers being successful.

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

  Complete the statements about cookies.

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• Question 10May/June 2023, paper 11Structured14 marks

  A student uses the internet for their schoolwork to research what is meant by pharming. State the aim of pharming.

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• Question 5May/June 2025, paper 12Structured23 marks

  A hospital has computers and technology that it uses when caring for its patients. One computer is an expert system that is used to help diagnose a patient’s illness. The doctor inputs the patient’s symptoms into an interface and a diagnosis is output.

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• Question 5May/June 2025, paper 13Structured16 marks

  An online company has a website that allows a user to buy products. The user types in the uniform resource locator (URL) for the website and this is sent to a domain name server (DNS).

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• Question 11May/June 2024, paper 12Structured8 marks

  A company has a website. Users use the internet and the world wide web to access the website. Describe the difference between the internet and the world wide web.

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• Question 7May/June 2024, paper 13Structured18 marks

  A company has a network that includes a web server. Data is transmitted across the network using serial half-duplex data transmission. Draw and annotate a diagram to show how the data is transmitted using serial half-duplex data transmission.

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• Question 9May/June 2023, paper 13Structured7 marks

  A device can be given an internet protocol (IP) address. This can be an IPv4 or IPv6. Give one similarity between IPv4 and IPv6.

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