AP CSP 2.2 Exercise 2: Bandwidth Budget Advisor

Big Idea 2 · Topic 2.2 · Exercise 2

Bandwidth Budget Advisor

25 minutes - 3 contexts - choose and justify

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Scenario 1 · Foundational

An author has finished a 900-page novel and must email the manuscript to an editor tonight, but the attachment is over the mail server's size limit. Every character of the manuscript must arrive exactly as written - the editor's contract requires the submitted text to be the text. Recommend a compression approach.

What matters most in this context (perfect reconstruction vs. size/time):

Compression choice (lossless or lossy) + the trade-off accepted:

Enrichment - which data shrinks most, and why (redundancy):

Scenario 2 · Core

A school is live-streaming its graduation ceremony to relatives overseas on a weak uplink connection. During a test run, the full-quality stream kept freezing and dropping out. Families care that the stream keeps moving in real time; nobody will study individual frames. Recommend a compression approach.

What matters most in this context (perfect reconstruction vs. size/time):

Compression choice (lossless or lossy) + the trade-off accepted:

Enrichment - which data shrinks most, and why (redundancy):

Scenario 3 · Challenge

A student's phone storage is nearly full. Two things are eating the space: a folder of scanned legal documents for a family court case (the lawyer says every page must remain exact), and about 2,000 vacation photos the student browses on the phone screen. One compression setting will not fit both. Recommend a complete plan.

What matters most in this context (perfect reconstruction vs. size/time):

Compression choice (lossless or lossy) + the trade-off accepted:

Enrichment - which data shrinks most, and why (redundancy):

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