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UK GCSE 2008 : ICT - Full Course, Foundation Tier, Paper 2

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Centre Number 71 Candidate Number General Certificate of Secondary Education 2008 Information and Communication Technology Paper 2 Foundation Tier G5802 Full Course [G5802] FRIDAY 6 JUNE, MORNING TIME 1 hour. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your Centre Number and Candidate Number in the spaces provided at the top of this page. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this question paper. Answer all ten questions. For Examiner s use only Question Number 1 2 3 INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES The total mark for this paper is 80, including a maximum of 4 marks for quality of written communication. Figures in brackets printed down the right-hand side of pages indicate the marks awarded to each question or part question. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 QWC Total Marks G582S8 3860 Marks Answer all ten questions Examiner Only Marks 1 Remark Gerald wants to get a new mobile phone. He wants to use his phone to take pictures and video clips. He cannot decide between these two phones. PHONE A Includes . . . 2 Megapixel camera Video MP3 GPRS Email Bluetooth 256k Colour screen PHONE B Includes . . . 3 Megapixel camera Video MP3 GPRS Email Bluetooth Quadband 256k Colour screen (a) (i) Which phone will take better quality photographs? ____________________________________________________ [1] (ii) Give one reason for your answer. ____________________________________________________ [1] (b) Why might Gerald want an MP3 player on his phone? _______________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 2 [Turn over (c) He uses Bluetooth to send multimedia files to his friends. What is meant by a multimedia file? Examiner Only Marks Remark _______________________________________________________ [1] (d) Give one reason why he would use Bluetooth to send videos to his friends instead of a multimedia text message. _______________________________________________________ [1] (e) Gerald uses WAP to access the Internet. What does WAP stand for? _______________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 3 [Turn over 2 Peter has just started a web design company in Armagh. He employs two other members of staff. Both will use teleworking. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) What is teleworking? __________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [2] (b) Give two ways teleworking can save Peter money. 1. ____________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ [1] (c) Give one disadvantage to Peter of his staff using teleworking. _______________________________________________________ [1] (d) Peter s staff will use broadband to send graphic and video files back to the office. Why would Peter use broadband to do this instead of using a dial-up connection? _______________________________________________________ [1] (e) Peter is concerned his staff might suffer from RSI. What does RSI stand for? _______________________________________________________ [1] (f) Complete the table below to help Peter give advice to his staff to make sure they do not suffer from these health problems. Health Problem Advice Eye Strain Back Ache [2] G582S8 3860 4 [Turn over 3 Ruth s ICT teacher uses OCR to make electronic copies of past examination papers so they can be uploaded on to the school Intranet. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) What does OCR stand for? _______________________________________________________ [1] (b) Number the remaining steps in the table below to show what happens when a page is converted into text using OCR. Page of text Scanner Step Process Special software converts the graphic to text A text-based version of the document is stored on the computer OCR 1 A page of information is input using a scanner 2 A graphic image of the page is stored on the computer [2] (c) Give one advantage to the teacher of using OCR to scan in the document. _______________________________________________________ [1] (d) The school also uses OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) for marking the morning register. Some staff would prefer to mark the registers directly on to the school computer system. (i) Give one advantage of using OMR to enter the attendance details. ____________________________________________________ [1] (ii) Give one advantage of entering attendance details directly on to the computer. ____________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 5 [Turn over 4 Two schools are working together on a project using video conferencing and a WAN (Wide Area Network). Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) Apart from a computer list two items of hardware the schools would need for video conferencing. 1. ____________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ [1] (b) Give two advantages of being able to communicate using video conferencing. 1. ____________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ [1] (c) The schools are going to publish a website at this URL. www.jointschoolproject.ac.uk (i) What does URL stand for? ____________________________________________________ [1] (ii) What does ac mean in a web address? ____________________________________________________ [1] (iii) What is the domain name in this web address? ____________________________________________________ [1] (d) List two ways teachers might use the Intranet to share information with pupils. 1. ___________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ [1] (e) Some pupils use a modem at home to access the web site. What is a modem? __________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [2] G582S8 3860 6 [Turn over 5 Ashlinn is using data logging to record information on rainfall for a science experiment. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) What type of sensor would she use in this experiment? _______________________________________________________ [1] (b) An interface connects the sensor to the computer. Why can she not connect the sensor directly to the computer? __________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [2] (c) Ashlinn wants to create a line graph to show the results of her experiment. What software would allow her to do this? _______________________________________________________ [1] (d) She then wants to import the graph into a word processing document to illustrate her write-up. What does the word import mean? _______________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 7 [Turn over 6 A photographer is setting up a new studio in Belfast and cannot decide if he should use digital or traditional film cameras. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) Give two advantages of using digital photography over traditional photography. 1. ____________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ [1] (b) He also needs to be able to communicate with staff in another studio in London, but does not know if he should email or fax. (i) Give two advantages of email communication over fax communication. 1. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ [1] (ii) Give one advantage of fax communication over email communication. ____________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 8 [Turn over 7 Simon is creating a website for his ICT coursework. He includes video clips and animated graphics as well as photographs on his website. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) From the words below circle the file type Simon would use to save his video clip. mpeg tiff gif csv [1] (b) Give one disadvantage of including too many graphics or videos on a website. _______________________________________________________ [1] (c) Simon has included a photo gallery where all of his graphics are displayed as thumbnail images. What is a thumbnail image? _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ [1] (d) Simon has included an email hyperlink on his Home Page. What is a hyperlink? _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 9 [Turn over 8 MiniMart have introduced a new EPOS system. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) What does EPOS stand for? _______________________________________________________ [1] (b) Give two advantages of EPOS to the customer. 1. ____________________________________________________ [1] 2. ____________________________________________________ [1] (c) Give one advantage of EPOS to the owner of MiniMart. _______________________________________________________ [1] (d) Give one disadvantage of EPOS to the owner of MiniMart. _______________________________________________________ [1] (e) Name two input devices and two output devices used at the EPOS. Explain what each one can be used for. Input Device 1: _________________________________________ [1] Use: __________________________________________________ [1] Input Device 2: _________________________________________ [1] Use: __________________________________________________ [1] Output Device 1: _______________________________________ [1] Use: __________________________________________________ [1] Output Device 2: _______________________________________ [1] Use: __________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 10 [Turn over One terminal allows customers to scan their own products and pay for their goods. Examiner Only Marks Remark (f) Give one advantage to MiniMart of using this type of system. __________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 11 [Turn over 9 A new call centre is setting up a batch processing system for managing payroll. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) Explain the term batch processing. __________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [2] (b) Name one other application where batch processing is used. _______________________________________________________ [1] (c) Some computer systems use real-time processing. (i) What is real-time processing? ______________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ [2] (ii) Give one example of where real-time processing could be used. ____________________________________________________ [1] G582S8 3860 12 [Turn over (d) During data entry data is often validated. Describe the purpose of each of these validation checks and give an example of how they might be used. The first one is completed for you. Validation check Type check Purpose Example To ensure only data of a certain type is entered into a field. To make sure only numbers are typed into an age field in a database. Presence check Range check Examiner Only Marks Remark [4] G582S8 3860 13 [Turn over 10 Information and Communication Technology has had an impact on the type of jobs available in today s society. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) Name two jobs that have been almost completely replaced by ICT. For each job give one way you think ICT has changed the way the job is carried out. Job 1: _________________________________________________ [1] Change: __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ [1] Job 2: _________________________________________________ [1] Change: __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ [1] (b) ICT has improved the way we work today. Give two reasons to back up this statement. Reason 1: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ [1] Reason 2: _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ [1] Quality of written communication [4] G582S8 G582S8 3860 14 [Turn over G582S8 3860 15 [Turn over S 9/07 529-009-1 0

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