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2025 OCR AS LEVEL COMPUTER SCIENCE H046/01 Computing Principles Question Paper & Mark Scheme (Merged) May 2025 [VERIFIED] © OCR 2025 [601/5030/0] DC (PQ/CGW) 324947/5 OCR is an exempt Charity Turn over 2 BLANK PAGE DO NOT WRITE ON THIS PAGE © OCR 2025 3 Turn over © OCR 2025 1 The table shows the steps of the Fetch stage only of the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle. The names of the registers are referred to as A, B, C and D. 1 The contents of the Register A are copied into the Register B. 2a RAM is read at the location specified by the Register B and its contents are copied into the Register C. 2b Register A is incremented by 1. 3 The contents of the Register C are copied into the Register D. (a) State the name of each register in the table. Register A Register B Register C Register D [4] (b) Describe how the performance of the Fetch-Decode-Exe

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2025 OCR AS LEVEL COMPUTER SCIENCE H046/01 Computing Principles Question Paper & Mark
Scheme (Merged) May 2025 [VERIFIED]

© OCR 2025 OCR is an exempt
[601/5030/0] DC Charity Turn over
(PQ/CGW)
324947/5

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1 The table shows the steps of the Fetch stage only of the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle. The
names of the registers are referred to as A, B, C and D.

1 The contents of the Register A are copied into the Register B.
2a RAM is read at the location specified by the Register B and its contents are copied into
the Register C.
2b Register A is incremented by 1.
3 The contents of the Register C are copied into the Register D.

(a) State the name of each register in the table.

Register A

Register B

Register C

Register D

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(b) Describe how the performance of the Fetch-Decode-Execute cycle changes when increasing:

(i) The number of cores

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(ii) The clock speed

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2* OCR Accountants is a firm of 30 employees. Each employee handles financial matters for many
local businesses.

The organisation runs a single large server which hosts their email, website and files about
businesses they work with.

Discuss the different functions of an operating system and why they are essential to the
management of this single server.

You should refer to the following in your answer:

• the different functions of an operating system
• how these functions can be used to manage the OCR Accountants’ server and why they
are essential?
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