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GCE JUN 2009 : AS 1 Components of ICT - Revised

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Sp ec Ne ifi w ca tio n 1 2 Centre Number 3 71 4 Candidate Number 5 6 ADVANCED SUBSIDIARY (AS) General Certificate of Education 2009 7 8 9 10 11 Assessment Unit AS 1 12 assessing 13 Module 1: Components of ICT 14 15 [AW111] 16 AW111 Information and Communication Technology THURSDAY 4 JUNE, AFTERNOON 17 18 19 20 21 22 TIME 2 hours. INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your Centre Number and Candidate Number in the spaces provided 23 at the top of this page. 24 Write your answers in the spaces provided in this question paper. Answer all five questions. 25 26 27 INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES For Examiner s use only Question Marks Number 28 The total mark for this paper is 120 marks including a maximum of 5 for quality of written communication. 29 Figures in brackets printed down the right-hand side of pages indicate the 30 marks awarded to each question or part question. 1 31 5 32 QWC 33 34 35 2 3 4 Total Marks 5288 BLANK PAGE 5288 2 [Turn over 1 The secretary of a historical society is word processing an article about an old building. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) The secretary obtains information about the building using the Internet. (i) Describe the main features of an Internet browser. [3] (ii) Describe how the secretary could use a search engine in this case. [3] 5288 3 [Turn over (b) The secretary uses a scanner to input a newspaper cutting which includes a photograph of the building. Examiner Only Marks Remark (i) Explain how OCR will be used in this case. [3] (ii) Explain how the computer could be used to enhance the photograph. [4] 5288 4 [Turn over (iii) Describe the main features of the following file formats. Examiner Only Marks Remark RTF JPEG [6] (c) Describe how e-mail could be used to send a draft of the article to the members of the society. [4] 5288 5 [Turn over 2 A golf club maintains details about its members in a database. Examiner Only Marks Remark Each year, members are requested to update their details by completing a membership renewal form. Details from these forms are used to update the database. (a) By referring to the membership renewal form, explain what is meant by A direct data source [2] An indirect data source [2] (b) Data verification and data validation are used when the database is updated. (i) Explain the purpose of data verification. [2] (ii) Explain the purpose of data validation. [2] 5288 6 [Turn over (iii) Some fields from the membership renewal form are shown below. Examiner Only Marks Membership number S urname Post code Remark 23159 Hanna EL8 3YZ For each of the following, suggest and justify a field for which the validation check would be the most suitable. Type check ______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Format check ____________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Check digit _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [6] (c) Describe three factors which may affect the quality of information produced from a database. 1. ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 2. ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 3. ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ [6] 5288 7 [Turn over 3. An organisation requires new software. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) Describe two ways in which the organisation could obtain the software. 1. ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ 2. ___________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ [6] (b) A team of IT professionals is involved in developing the new software. (i) Describe the main responsibilities of A project manager ________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ A programmer ____________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [6] 5288 8 [Turn over (ii) Explain what happens during each of the following stages: Examiner Only Marks Remark Design Implementation Testing [9] 5288 9 [Turn over (c) Documentation is produced for the new system. Examiner Only Marks Remark (i) Describe two reasons why technical documentation is produced. 1. _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [4] (ii) Identify three of the main contents of user documentation. 1. _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ 3. _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [3] 5288 10 [Turn over 4 A family wishes to connect a number of computers to the Internet using a wireless network. Examiner Only Marks Remark (a) Name and state the purpose of three additional resources that will be required in this case. Resource ____________________________________________________ Purpose _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Resource ____________________________________________________ Purpose _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Resource ____________________________________________________ Purpose _____________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ [6] 5288 11 [Turn over (b) Explain what is meant by Examiner Only Marks Remark An IP address A firewall SMS [12] 5288 12 [Turn over (c) Describe the main features of Bluetooth technology. Examiner Only Marks Remark [4] 5288 13 [Turn over 5 (a) More people now shop from home using the Internet. Examiner Only Marks Remark (i) Describe the main features of Paypal https [4] (ii) Describe the main features of A worm A logic bomb [4] 5288 14 [Turn over (b) Trainee doctors can practise their surgical skills on a virtual patient. Examiner Only Marks Remark (i) Explain how ICT is used in a typical virtual reality application. _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [4] (ii) Describe two benefits of using a virtual reality system in this case. 1. _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ [4] 5288 15 [Turn over (c) Describe the main features of Examiner Only Marks Remark The Computer Misuse Act The Copyright, Designs and Patent Act [6] QWC THIS IS THE END OF THE QUESTION PAPER 5288 16 [Turn over Permission to reproduce all copyright material has been applied for. 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