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Exam Questions and Answers for June Paper 2011
- Paper June 2011
- Question 11 A family access the internet using a network
- E) The parents are worried about the possible health
hazards associated with using the computer for long
periods of time. Describe these health hazards and how
they could be reduced (8 Marks, 4 Hazards with a
matching prevention)
- RSI- Repetitive strain injury
- Regular exercising of body's joints
- Eye Strain
- Take regular breaks from working at a computer
- Back Ache
- Use an adjustable chair
- Wrist strain
- Use a wrist support when using the computer
- D) The family shop online. Give two
advantages of shopping online (2 marks,
only 2 points needed)
- Large range of goods available for purchase online
- Price comparison sites, that can save you money
- Goods are delivered to your door
- C) Give two reasons why the
children should not share
personal details with the people
they meet on the internet (2
marks, 2 points needed)
- You do not know for sure who is on the
other side of the screen, they may not be
who they say they are
- They could share the
details you give them
with other people,
making it dangerous
- B) Give one way parents can protect their
children from unsuitable sites (1 mark, only
one point needed)
- They can add a child lock, this
means a password needs to
be entered for the website to
be shown.
- A) Give one way the family could prevent
unauthorised access to their network (1 mark,
only 1 point needed)
- They can add a password to their
computer so only the people who know
the password can access the network
- Question 10 Mary is a supporter of the local theatre and wants to but
tickets online from home
- A) Tick 3 of the items of data shown below which mary would have
to supply when buying tickets (3 marks, one per tick)
- 1, 4, 6
- B) Describe one advantage of
using an online booking system
to the theatre and one
advantage to Mary (2 marks, one
for each advantage)
- Advantage to Mary-
Convenient and can be done
anytime
- Advantage to Theatre-
Attracts customers who are
not so local
- Question 9 David Brown uses an
online car insurance site to obtain
a quote. When entering his
details, two messages pop up as
shown below
- a) i) Tick to show whether the following are
examples of verification or validation (2 marks,
one per tick)
- Confirm email must
match email-
Verification (Double
entry of data)
- Must be a real date- Validation (range check)
- a) ii) Describe in detail the
technique used to identify the error
in the date of birth field (2 marks, 2
points needed)
- Range check, This checks the data is in
the correct range, in this case 1-31 for the
days in a month.
- B) David receives his insurance quote
by email. State one advantage and one
disadvantage of using email to send out
quotes (2 marks, one for each
statement)
- Advantage- can keep a copy of
records, no chance of it getting
lost in the post
- Disadvantage: Could
be hacked and his
details may be received
by somebody else
- Question 8- Online tutorials use ICT to
help students to learn about a subject or
topic
- A) Learning games are one feature of online tutorials. Name two
other features found in online tutorials ( 2 marks, one for each
answer)
- Images
- Sound
- B) VLE's are used in schools and colleges
- i) What does VLE stand for (1 mark all 3
words needed)
- Virtual
Learning
Environment
- ii) One use of a VLE is to allow
teachers to set homework.. Describe
two other ways students or teachers
can make use of the VLE (2 marks, one
for each answer)
- to access resources and learning material
- A place to store work that teachers
may also access and check
- Question 7) A library has an environmental monitoring system. Two
different sensors are used to measure temperature and humidity. If
a sensor detects that the value measured is too high it sends a 1 to
the computer, otherwise it sends a 0. Complete the following table
by describing the conditions in the library when the following data is
received from the sensors. ( 3 marks, one for each description)
- 0,0- The temperature and Humidity is at a suitable reading
1,0 the temperature is too high 1,1 The humidity and the
temperature are too high
- Question 6)Computers are used for weather forecasting
- a) One method of displaying weather information is in a graph. Give
two other different ways of displaying weather information on a
computer. (2 marks, one for each way)
- table
- text
- b) Other than the variety of ways to display the data, give two
advantages of computer based weather forecasting systems. (2
marks, one for each advantage)
- Easy to read and interpret
- Can be updated frequently
- Question 5) A local garage keeps details of all cars for sale in a computer database, part
of which is shown below.
- a) How many records are shown
in this database (1 mark,
number answer)
- 8
- b)How many cars would be found by the following search:
Colour= RED (1 mark, number answer)
- 2
- c) The Fuel field contains the letter D or P. Describe one
benefit of entering data in this way (1 mark, one point needed)
- Takes up less storage space
- d) A customer wants to know if there are any ‘GREY
SALOON’ cars in stock. Complete the table below to
show how the garage can obtain this information from
the database. ( 2 marks, one per search)
- Type=SALOON
- Colour=RED
- Question 4) A teacher has created a spreadsheet to help him
to arrange a trip for pupils. Part of the spreadsheet is shown
below.
- a) State the data in cell
D3 (1 mark, data in cell)
- 50
- b)Give the least number of pupils who need to go on the trip to
avoid making a loss. (1 mark, only a number required)
- 15
- c) Which of the
following formulas
could be used to give
the Total Cost in cell
E3? (1 mark,
for one letter)
- A =B3+C3+D3
B =SUM(B3:D3)
C =SUM(B3-D3)
D =AVG(B3:D3)
- B
- d) Give a suitable formula for
working out the Profit/Loss in
cell G4. (1 mark, for the formula)
- =(E4-F4)
- e) Give two specific advantages of using a
spreadsheet to work out the Profit/Loss. (2
marks, one for each advantage)
- Only have to input the
formula once (can drag
down to fill in the rest of
the column)
- Can be updated if numbers change
- Question 3) The mobile phones shown below have certain features, some of which are shown in the tables.
- a) i) Give one advantage of the camera with 10 megapixels (phone A) over the
camera with 5 megapixels (phone B). (1 mark, for the one advantage)
- Do not need a separate camera
- a) ii) Give one disadvantage of the camera with 10 megapixels (phone A)
over the camera with 5 megapixels (phone B). (1 mark for the one
disadvantage)
- The photos take up more storage space as they are bigger files
- b) State one feature of these phones which will
allow access to the internet. (1 mark for
identification)
- Wifi
- c) Many mobile phones have geographical information systems (GIS) linked to satellite navigation systems as
one of their features. Explain two benefits to the user of GIS on the mobile phone. (2 marks, one for each benefit)
- Calculates smallest route
- Can be warned about traffic and will update as you move
- d) Briefly describe how the phone user can make use of Bluetooth connectivity. (1 mark for explanation)
- Completely automatic
- Question 2) Tick (√) the correct box to show which of these items is data, information or knowledge. (3marks, one for each answer)
- Data (1)
Information (5)
Knowledge (9)
- Question 1) A school is designing a poster to advertise a
sponsored walk. The draft poster is shown below.
- The draft is improved and the new poster is shown below.
- a) From the list below, tick four features of Desk Top Publishing (DTP) software used on this new poster. (4 marks, one for each tick)
- Clip art (2) Border Art (3) Centre text (5) Underline (6)
- b) i) Tick the feature of DTP software that could be used to find a similar meaning for a word.( 1 mark, for one tick)
- Thesaurus
- b) ii) Name the feature of DTP software that could be used to detect spelling errors.(1 mark, simple answer)
- Spell check
- c) Other than DTP state two types of software that could be used by the school in organising the sponsored
walk. Give an example of how each could be used. (4 marks, one for each type and one for each example of use)
- Spreadsheet
- can be used to record the date of the walkers
- Database
- Can be used to keep track of the money sponsored