G.C.E.

ORDINARY LEVEL

STUDENT SEMINAR SERIES - 2017

INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION

TECHNOLOGY

QUESTION PAPER – II

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Ministry of Education
E-learning and Nenasa Educational Program Unit
G.C.E. Ordinary Level Examination – Support Seminars - 2017
80 - Information & Communication Technology
Grade 11 English Medium Time - 2 hours

 Answer five (05) questions only, selecting the first question and four others.
 First question carries 20 marks and each of the other questions carries 10 marks.

01.
1. Write the octal value of 2F116 .
2. Mention 2 differences between lossy compression and lossless compression.
3. Write 2 media resources which can be used by a web developer for a web page.
4.

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a. Write the Boolean expression of the above logic circuit.
b. When all inputs are 0 what will be the output of the above circuit?

5. Match column A with column B and write matching letters with the correct number.
Column A Column B
A Domain name 1 Yahoo
B Search engine 2 www.e-thaksalawa.moe.gov.lk
C Stage of web development process 3 Bluegriffon
D Web authoring tool 4 Update and manage

6. Nowadays people are using online applications without installing required software to their
devices and also, they are accessing their personal files which are stored at an online file
sharing space.
a. What can be the concept that they use according to the above scenario?
b. Mention 2 limitations that they face when they are using it.

7. Read and put (  ) or (  ) sign in front of the statement.

a. Bar code reader can recognize characters. ( )
b. Line printer is slower than dot matrix and it produces quality printouts. ( )
c. Blue ray DVD CD represents the descending order of storage devices according to
the capacity. ( )
d. Serial/ USB port can be used to connect the external modem to the computer. ( )

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8. Set of tools in a word processing software is given below. Write the number(s) of the
appropriate tool(s) in front of the relevant task.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
a. To open a new word document -
b. To correct errors in spellings -
c. To copy existing formatting styles to another text–
d. To capitalize all simple letters in a document–

9. A student needs to check the recently issued GCE O/L results online using his PC. First, he
has to enter his index number in the space provided to check his result. If the given index
number is valid, system will display the result for the given index number. He further needs
to get a printout of the result sheet for an interview to select for GCE Advance level class of
another school.
Read the above scenario and clearly mention the examples for input, process, and output

10. ICT is used for various fields in different ways. Select the correct terminology from given
words to fill in the blanks given below.
a. Health field uses ……………….. to see parts of the body in different dimensions.
b. ……………. are used to get data to decide on the crop cultivation & harvesting times.
c. In car production, ……………….. can be used to get an efficient & accurate output.
d. ……………………. Which are located in the sea can be used by sea travelers to get
information they need.
(Sensors / 3D image / Meteorological Devices/ Robots / RFID )

02.
A. Using Information & communication technology brings us a smooth life. But currently we
can see many issues associated with the use of ICT in the society.
i. Plagiarism is a major issue which is related to values of the society. But there are some
accepted ways to prevent from this issue. Write 2 ways that you can use to prevent from
the above mentioned social issue.
ii. Write 2 security mechanisms which can be applied for logical security of computer data.

B. Ergonomics is very important concept nowadays which is beneficial for an organization.

i. Briefly explain two benefits of having ergonomics in an organization.
ii. Which problems will occur due to an incorrect posture of a computer user?
C. Write an advantage and a disadvantage of digital games and cartoon films for school children
with respect to using ICT for entertainment.
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03.
A. Millennium traders are going to computerize their organization & the diagram of the
suggested network for the proposed system is given below. Study the diagram & answer the
following questions.
B
E
A

D C

i. A and B are 2 LANs in the above organization. Mention the topologies used in those two
LANs & write a disadvantage of using that topology.
ii. Name suitable devices for C, D, E and mention one usage of each device.
iii. Write an example for a suitable communication media for the above network A.

B. Following timing diagram represents the input values of the given logic gate.

1
A
0

1 Draw the output of the gate in the timing

B
0 diagram.

o/p 1
0

04. The salary sheet of Perera and brothers company is given below. The company is giving an
allowance for every one and the allowance will be mentioned in cell B13. And Overtime pay
will be calculated according to the number of overtime hours they worked. If they have
worked more than 40 hours, an overtime rate of Rs 500.00 per hour will be paid for
additional hours. Loan interest and EPF rate are also given.

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1. Write the cell reference required for H5 to get the allowance. This should be able to use to
get the others’ allowance also.
2. Write the formula for I5 to calculate the loan interest for employees who has obtained the
loan.
3. What is the suitable chart type to represent each one’s salary.
4. Which cell formatting have been used to display “Perera & Brothers company” header as it
is?
5. Mention 2 reasons for selecting spreadsheet software for the above task.
6. The values in G5:L9 cell range are required to format as separated rupees and cents values.
Write the suitable numbering format for that cell range and Write the steps which should be
followed to do that formatting.

05.
A. Sarasavi library is a library which is serving facilities for university students. They face
problems when they are handling each process manually. The library management asks you
to develop an online system for the library to improve the efficiency of internal processes as
well as the quality of the service for users of the library.

i. Mention 3 ways that can be used to collect their needs.

ii. Explain 2 advantages of having a computerized system for the administration of the
library.
iii. Mention 3 types of testing for finding bugs in this system while you are developing it.
iv. “The library management needs to handle financial activities through the same system
but their requirements are not clear. The waterfall method is being used for this
development.”
a. Do you agree with this?
b. If yes, why do you agree with that? If not, mention the reason & suggest a new
method.
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B. Your friend is going to do an online transaction using his credit card. Write two advises as
precautions for security issues.
06.
A. The following flowchart is for supermarket cashier to read the bar code written on an item
when product is on the cashier & it is to find the price, handle inventory & produce the bill.
Statements
1. Any more bar codes to read?
2. Is bar code found in the file?
3. Add to the bill
4. Display error message
5. Display the bill
6. reject the product
7. update the inventory file.

i. Statements are given and select the suitable statement from to match the letter in the flow
chart.
Example - First one has done for you. A  4

ii. Mention control structures that you can see in the above flow chart.

B. The following program is written to enter a value by the user and to print number range from
1 to that entered value. (Ex – User will enter 4. System will display 1 2 3 4)
The given program has errors. Correct them & re-write the correct program.
program numbers;
var
x,num:integer;
begin
writeln(“enter a number”);
readln(num)
x=0;
while (x=<num) :
begin
print x;
x:=x+1;
end
end
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07. Part of a database of an education institute is given below and it shows about lecturers, students
and courses.
Student Course
Stno Stname Contact City Course Fee Lec_id
St023 Divyani 0112343472 Colombo Java Rs. 20,000 L021
St024 Gagani 0112345232 Kandy Python Rs. 30,000 L023
St025 Buupa 0117323432 Colombo Pascal Rs. 15,000 L023

Student_Course Lecturer
Stno Course Day Time
Lec_id Lecname
St023 Python Monday 8 am
St023 Java Wednesday 10 am L021 Mr.Ganesh
St024 Pascal Tuesday 10 am L023 Mrs. Perera
St024 C++ Tuesday 2 pm L041 Mr. Kosala
St025 Java Friday 8 am

1. Why primary key of a relation is an important?

2. Show a composite primary key of this database.
3. Mention suitable data types for course fee, course day and course time.
4. Database administrator says “security of the database can be increased by applying security
mechanisms for data”. Briefly explain this by giving examples.
5. According to the above database, write the relationship type between following relations.
a. Student - Courses
b. Course - Lecturer
6. As earlier people used to have a flat table instead of having relational databases, data
duplication was high. Write two disadvantages of having data duplication.

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