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Explain what is meant by the term ‘TCP/IP stack’ [3]

The TCP/IP stack is the Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol. (1)A Protocol is a set of rules (1) the outline the ways in which data should be set out to make sure it can be understood. Both ...

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Describe the difference between TCP and UDP.

TCP (Transport Communication Protocol) allows for guaranteed communication between two machines. Connections are established with acknowledgements, and the receiver will also send acknowledgements when pa...

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Describe two's complement.

Two's complement is improvement on one's complement.
To get a negative number in One's complement, one has to invert all numbers (turn 1 to 0, and 0 to 1), for two's complement is the same but add 1...

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A common construct found in many algorithms is a loop. Using pseudocode, write a pre-condition loop to output all of the even numbers between 99 and 201.

Key points when answering questions are the marks given for it and how the question is defined. In this example we need to write a pre-condition loop to output all the

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Write a function in pseudocode that determines if a given string is a palindrome

Declare and Initiate a new empty stringTraverse the given string using a loopTake each char from the given string and concatenate it to the beginning of the new stringCompare the final new string with the...

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