Protocols and standards

• Explain the need for portability of data, e.g. ease of transferring numerical, graphical and textual data between applications.

• Describe the need of standards for interchanging numerical, graphical and textual data between different hardware and software platforms.

Communication standards

• Know of the existence, benefits and limitations of standards.

• Understand the protocols and addressing mechanisms used to support the World Wide Web.

Emergence of standards

• Recognise the existence of de facto standards based on historic precedent and sales success in comparison to formal standards.

See the books page for more details about the titles listed below

McWeeney - A205 Pages 44 - 48

Mott & Leeming - Chapter 23

Doyle - Chapter 18

Heathcote - Chapter 60

AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed but...

Practice questions
Past paper practice questions for 14.10 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer) suitable for revision/homework etc. etc.

Past paper answers
Answers to the questions above. Password protected .doc file. Sorry but the password is only available to teachers.

Older Exam Papers
Past papers (pre 2000) not included on the official AQA site from Colchester VI Form College. These still contain some relevant questions for this topic. Look for IT05/ICT5 papers.

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Links to general online resources for 14.10. I'd recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)

	Standards and Protocols
A very good set of revision questions from Gerard Horsley at B&P College can be used to either introduce this topic or as an end-of-unit exercise.
	Introducing Standards
Short PowerPoint presentation from the ever-lovely Debbie Jones at Teach-ICT gives a neat introduction to need for standards.
	Potability of Data
Set of online revision notes for this topic (based largely on the Heathcote textbook) from the rather good Antonine Education. Contains practice questions throughout.
	Data Communications & Standards
Based largely on the Heathcote presentation this version from Mortimer Wilson has a few supplementary notes. There's a link to the short film mentioned in the presentation below.
	Warriors of the Net
Verrry cool short animated film explains how t'Internet works. It's a BIG FAT download so don't do it at school/college unless you have a nice teacher i.e. not FatMax!
	OSI Mini Website
Cool mini website about the OSI 7 layer model. For ICT5 you have to be "aware" of and understand the importance of this model even if you don't have to remember the layers.
	Portability of Data
Excellent PowerPoint presentation from Kesgrave from the v. talented Mr. Cawley covers the entire topic. FatMax recommended.
	14.10 Portability of Data
Summary notes and questions for 14.10 Portability of Data from North Chadderton High School. Usual quality you'd expect makes this great for revision.
	14.10 Portability of Data
Nice set of online resources for this topic from Colchester VI Form College. Includes some older past paper practice questions.
	De facto vs. De jure
Neat little summary about the main difference between de jure and de facto standards as they apply to software and computer systems.
	Who's behind that website?
The article is actually about phishing but contains a bit about the anatomy of a web address. Anyways it's kind of interesting so have a look if you've got nothing better to do.
	Revision Questions
Handout containing a couple of older IT02 questions from NEAB. These are now suitable for ICT5 homework, revision, blah de blah de blah etc..

Key to resources:

PowerPoint presentation Word file Web page Macromedia Flash

Word, PowerPoint and Excel resources will also open in OOo Writer, Calc and Impress - check the downloads page.