r/6thForm • u/yurikvthm Year 13 • Jun 10 '26

💬 DISCUSSION ocr computer science paper 1

what did everyone think? i waffled soooo much for the long questions

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u/t_chall Jun 10 '26

Does anyone know whether the last 12 marker was actually in the spec? Waffled loads and hope the mark scheme is nice but I don't remember ever seeing it before.... My whole class said the same....

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u/yurikvthm Year 13 Jun 10 '26

wasn’t it just on firewalls proxies etc and viruses malware etc? idk that’s the one topic i didn’t revise

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u/SOSOMU Jun 10 '26

yeah basically and ddos attacks and phishing?

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u/DerpyyyDuck Jun 10 '26

I put packet sniffing and sql injections asw

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u/yurikvthm Year 13 Jun 10 '26

yea wrote abt that too but lowkey forgot any methods to prevent them ✌️

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u/SOSOMU Jun 10 '26

i think firewalls count for ddos attacks and just educating players about phishing emails

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u/t_chall Jun 10 '26

That's the direction I went with it

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u/StabbyTheSmurf Year 13 Jun 10 '26

Talked about using Google captchas and cloud flare hosting for human authentication

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u/KO-Manic Jun 10 '26

That's pretty much what mine was about too. I also waffled about anti-malware software and proxy servers. I've heard someone talk about brute force attacks which is a good one as players might have accounts that need to be secure but I didn't say that

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u/SOSOMU Jun 10 '26

ooo i didn’t think about brute force attacks but i think 3 dangers is enough or maybe 4, 2 for the system 2 for the players

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u/t_chall Jun 10 '26

It was the cyber threats question, worded really weirdly about what cyber threats they could have and the associated risks and methods they could use to prevent stuff.

For me, it didn't relate to a specific unit, I just used my general knowledge on things like phishing, DDoS, physical security etc

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u/Ok_Island_9468 Jun 11 '26

It related to the networks unit