Student Name _______________ Date: ____________

1 State the most appropriate word or phrase to complete each sentence.

(a) The type of data output from a sensor is

__analogue_____________________________________________________________

_ type of data read by a microprocessor is

(b) The

______digital__________________________________________________________

(c) The item of hardware that converts data from a sensor so a microprocessor can read it is

_ADC_______________________________________________________________

(d) The type of sensor that is used in a

refrigerator is
_temperature_______________________________________________________________
[4]
2 Circle three items that contain personal data.

Buzzer CD/RW drive / Keyboard LCD monitor

Speake Solid state drive / Tracker-ball Web cam /

[3]
3 Tickr() whether the following statements refer to Backing storage, RAM or ROM

[4]
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4 (a) The sensor monitors the air pollution. When the air pollution reaches a certain limit, a
message is displayed on a street sign in the city to warn pedestrians and road users.

Describe the computer processing involved in this system.

In this system, a sensor checks the air for pollution levels. the sensor sends data to the

computer using ADC. The computer checks if the pollution is above a set limit and send

decision and give result back to sensor using DAC.

[4]
(b) Data from the sensor needs to be converted from analogue to digital before it is
processed.
Explain the need for this conversion.
Data from the sensor is analogue data but computers only understand data in a
binary digital data format.

A router is used in networks. [2]

(c) Describe how a router routes data packets.
__Routers are used to route data packets from one network to another based

on IP addresses. Each router has its own IP address and routers join a LAN to

the internet.

[3]
5
The sales representative decides to create a multimedia presentation and

wishes to

place an image of the new product on one of the slides.

Explain the steps he would need to take to do this.

Open word-proccessor application, transfer pictures of new product using

digital camera or SD/XD or memory card to computer. Position the image in

the right place and you can crop,rotate,adjust lighting,etc.

[4]

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6 The Tawara Tea Company supplies tea to its customers. The company has created a
spreadsheet to help its sales team to keep track of its orders. The spreadsheet has two
worksheets, named Products and Orders.
Part of the spreadsheet is shown below. All prices and costs are displayed in Indian
Rupee ₹.

(a) A salesman needs to create a formula to be placed in cell D2, in the Orders

worksheet,
that finds the Price per unit of the tea, multiplies it by the Quantity ordered
and then
displays the result.
Write a formula that needs to be entered in cell D2. This formula will be
replicated down
to cell D9.
=Vlookup(B2, products.csv!$A$1:$C$11,3,false)*C2 [8]
(b) Explain how he could format the Cost column (column D) of Order table to display the
values in Indian Rupees as shown.

Select column D, right click on the selected column and go to “Format Cells”. In the
format cells dialog box go to the numbers tab. Select currency from the category list,
then choose indian rupees [3]

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7 (a) A student is using her computer to do her homework.

For each of the statements below, identify the health problem most likely to be
associated with the use of a computer and a possible solution to the problem. Your
answers must be different in each case.

Eye strain
take breaks, use bluelight filter,
anti glare screen

RSI take breaks,

Back pain
take breaks,

[6]
(b) Command Line Interface (CLI) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) are examples
of interface found in computer systems. Give two advantages of a computer
having a GUI rather than a CLI.

GUI is easier to use and more user-friendly. GUI provides feedback through

icons, windows and graphical elements.

[2]
(c) A group of students are carrying out a study of the quality of river water for

a project.
They can either use a tablet computer or a smartphone to monitor and
record their
findings.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a tablet computer rather
than
smartphone for this project.

Tablets have a larger touchscreen so its easier to type and it has larger memory

capacity. tablets have longer battery life.

Disadvantage is tablet is less portable than smartphone, more expensive and

can’t make phone calls.

[6]

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______________________________________________________________________

8 (a) Tick whether the following statements refer to 3D printers, Laser printers or Dot matrix
printers.

[4]
(b) Applications software can be installed on a computer’s hard disk but

companies are
increasingly selling applications software that is stored in the cloud.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the cloud rather than a

hard disk
for applications software.
Advantage is that you don;t need to carry an external storage device and can
access files anytime anywhere. You can also have unlimited storage with cloud.

Disadvantage is that cloud can get hacked, require internet and if the website
fail, all data cant be accessed

[6]
(c) Complete the following sentences, using the most appropriate file format from the list
below.
.css .csv .doc .gif .htm
.pdf .png .rar .sdb .xls

__.css____________________ is a stylesheet used in the creation of web pages.

__.rar____________________ is a generic archive file format.

___________.gif___________ is a generic file format that stores still and moving images.
[4]

____.csv__________________ takes data in the form of tables and saves it

as text.
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(d) When a student has finished working on an existing file, the software gives her two
options, Save and Save As. Explain two differences between Save and Save As.

Save overwrites the same file with new changes but save as allows you to save the

the file in a new name/location. When you save, you update the file in its current
[2]
location but Save as creates a duplicate of the file in a new location.

9(a) A library is considering the way it issues books. The librarians are planning to

use RFID
rather than bar codes.
Describe the advantages of using RFID rather than bar codes.

RFID can be read from a longer distance, RFID tags can store more data, RFID

tags are less likely to be damaged than barcodes and RFID tags can read much

faster than barcodes. [4]

(b) A car manufacturing company uses computer-controlled robots to

manufacture its cars.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages to the company of using computer-
controlled robots rather than using humans to manufacture the cars.

[8]

(c) Explain the difference between primary key and foreign key.

Most tables will have a primary key field that holds unique data and is the field
_ to identify that record. Some tables will have one or more foreign key fields.
uses

A foreign key field in one data table stores value from a primary key field in

another table.
[3]
End of the paper
Total Mark: [80]

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