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Question 1

An aerospace engineer is designing the flight computer for an autonomous Mars drone. The system is specified to have 8 GiB of primary memory (RAM) and 512 GiB of secondary storage (SSD).

Explain two distinct reasons why the flight computer requires a significantly larger capacity of secondary storage than primary memory.

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Systems architecture Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Computer Science
  3. /Systems architecture

37 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Computer Science Systems architecture. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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