AQA COMP3 June 2012 Exam Thread

Can anyone give a current definition of bandwidth according to AQA? This is what I've got, but it is way too long for a 1 or 2 mark question:

Bandwidth is a measure of how fast the data may be transmitted over the transmission medium (e.g. copper wire). This is measured in Hertz as the range of signal frequencies that it may transmit at one end and receive at the other end, without significant reduction in strength.

Annoyed at how we have to learn AQA's definitions and not those that are accepted in society. It's like "resolution of an image" last time in COMP1, which was wrong in the mark scheme (they gave a definition of pixel density).

What are the Advantages/Disadvantages to Baseband and Broadband?

Just shorten it down to. Measure in (Hz) of how fast data is transmitted across a transmission medium.

What are the Advantages/Disadvantages to Baseband and Broadband?

Mummy may want to use the phone, if you have a baseband system, ure gonna have to disconnect your dial up or ure mum will giv u a good ass whoopin as experienced by me in the pass. So Broadband systems prevent you getting ure ass whooped by ure mum or dad.

is the largest number in floating point
0.1111111 * 0111
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This is the definition from my AQA computing book:
"Bandwidth: for a transmission medium, e.g. copper wire, this is the range of signal frequencies that it may transmit"

The speed of data transmission would be given by either the bit rate or baud rate.

Another Quick Question,

What is the difference between Thin Client Network, and a Server Based Network?

From what i understand, both need to have a dedicated server, to manage resources, process stuff, and in both cases the clients are essentially thin.

Thanks. How would this be in Hertz though? Does range mean like 10KHz to 15KHz, hence bandwidth would be 5 KHz?

This is the definition from my AQA computing book:
"Bandwidth: for a transmission medium, e.g. copper wire, this is the range of signal frequencies that it may transmit"

The speed of data transmission would be given by either the bit rate or baud rate.

It's been answered in quite a bit of detail about page 17ish (on the forum), if you wanna have a look

Thanks for editting it, felt a bit stupid looking in my book.

But the definition given on page 17, is thin vs thick, if you look at the AQA book on page 185, there is a definition of a thin client network being network where all the processing takes place on the central server.

Then on page 189 the definition of a server based network is a network where resources ... and other functions are provided by dedicated servers.

Are they essentially not the same thing?

Thanks for editting it, felt a bit stupid looking in my book.

But the definition given on page 17, is thin vs thick, if you look at the AQA book on page 185, there is a definition of a thin client network being network where all the processing takes place on the central server.

Then on page 189 the definition of a server based network is a network where resources ... and other functions are provided by dedicated servers.

Are they essentially not the same thing?

Thanks for editting it, felt a bit stupid looking in my book.

But the definition given on page 17, is thin vs thick, if you look at the AQA book on page 185, there is a definition of a thin client network being network where all the processing takes place on the central server.

Then on page 189 the definition of a server based network is a network where resources ... and other functions are provided by dedicated servers.

Are they essentially not the same thing?