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IGCSE Computer Science (0478)

The internet and its uses Banker

17 questions · about 12% of the marks we indexed · examined in 9 of 9 sessions.

Questions by year

2026

  • 2026 May/June · Paper 12 · Q5 (a, b)10 marksCyber security threats · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)

2025

  • 2025 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q6 (a, b, c, d)14 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2025 May/June · Paper 12 · Q5 (c(i), c(ii))12 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)

2024

  • 2024 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q7 (a, b, c, d, e)14 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2024 May/June · Paper 12 · Q8 (a, b)6 marksCyber security threats · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2024 May/June · Paper 12 · Q11 (a, b, c)8 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies

2023

  • 2023 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q1 (a, b, c)3 marksCyber security threats · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2023 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q8 (a, b)6 marksCyber security threats · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2023 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q96 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies
  • 2023 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q12 (a, b)3 marksDigital currency and blockchain
  • 2023 May/June · Paper 12 · Q6 (a, b)9 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies
  • 2023 May/June · Paper 12 · Q7 (a, b, c)10 marksCyber security threats · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)

2022

  • 2022 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q44 marksSecurity solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2022 Oct/Nov · Paper 12 · Q6 (a, b, c, d(i), d(ii), e)20 marksCyber security threats · Internet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2022 May/June · Paper 12 · Q2 (c, d)6 marksHTML structure and presentation (old syllabus)
  • 2022 May/June · Paper 12 · Q3 (a, b, c)10 marksInternet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)
  • 2022 May/June · Paper 12 · Q6 (a, b, c)14 marksCyber security threats · Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups)

Find the full paper on the official Cambridge past-papers page or ask your school. “Paper 42” means Paper 4, variant 2.

Similar questions

Questions that test the same subtopic in different years. Practise them together to master one skill.

Internet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies Banker8 questions · 8/9 sessions
Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups) Banker12 questions · 9/9 sessions
Cyber security threats 7 questions · 6/9 sessions

Subtopics

SubtopicMarks indexedSessions
Internet, WWW, URLs, browsers, HTTP(S), DNS and cookies Banker608/9
Security solutions (SSL, firewalls, proxy servers, backups) Banker559/9
Cyber security threats 316/9
HTML structure and presentation (old syllabus) Rare61/9
Digital currency and blockchain Rare31/9

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