IT FOR CSEC SAMPLE EXAM PAPERS FOR WEBSITE PAPER 2 2 hours and 15 minutes

SECTION 1 60 marks Question 1 (a) Name the term that describes the following area where data is stored on a secondary device: (i) Data is recorded in concentric rings where each one has a number (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark)

Track (ii) Each side is subdivided into wedge-shaped slices Sector (iii) A set of hard metal disks mounted on the same spindle Cylinder (b) A secondary storage device has two disk surfaces. (i)

Calculate the total storage space on the diskette in Mb if there are 80 tracks on its surface, with 18 sectors per track, and byte per sector (3 marks)

Total storage space = 2 x 80 x 18 x = 1440kb (ii) Identify this storage device Floppy Disk (b) Describe a different but appropriate input or output device for EACH of the following users: (i) a young child in a primary school (1 mark) Touch screen (ii) a blind person (1 mark) Microphone /speakers (iii) a graphic artist (1 mark) Plotter Total 10 marks (1 mark)

Question 2 A computer was purchased with the following specifications. A B C D E F Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200 (4MB L2, 2.33GHz) Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 20" HD Widescreen 16X DVD+/-RW Drive 3GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz 500GB Serial ATA

(a)

Write the appropriate letter that corresponds to the description of hardware above: (i) Operating system (1 mark) B (ii) Main memory (1 mark) E (iii) Optical storage (1 mark) D (iv) Secondary storage (1 mark) F State: (i) the size of the monitor (1 mark) 20 inches (ii) State the processor speed of the computer (1 mark) 2.33GHz (iii) the type of hard drive interface (1 mark) ATA (iv) the meaning of RW associated line D (1 mark) It means read/write Describe TWO other peripheral devices that are necessary for this computer system Keyboard and mouse (2 marks) Total 10 marks

(b)

(c)

Question 3 The following files were found on a SCHOOL diskette in the A drive: History.doc IT_SBA.xls (a) History_SBA.doc IT_SBA.mdb Columbus.tif Spanish_SBA.doc (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark)

State the names of general application programs that are associated with: (i) .doc Word Processor (ii) .xls Excel Processor (iii) .mdb Access (iv) .tif Picture viewer

(b) (c) (d)

State the path required to locate the History.doc file (2 marks) A:\ Explain, with reasons, how many folders you would create (2 marks) 3 folders, one for each type of file. An SBA folder was created within the SCHOOL folder. State how many files would be remain in the SCHOOL folder if: (i) all IT_SBA files were copied into this SBA folder (1 mark) (ii) all IT_SBA files were moved into this SBA folder (1 mark) Total 10 marks

Question 4 Employees at a security firm have been issued with cellular telephones. (a) (b) (c) List TWO advantages of these phones for the company Give TWO disadvantages of having these phones May get lost, be used for personal calls Give TWO examples of features on the phone that would be useful to the employees Saving numbers, text messages (d) (e) List TWO IT basic skills the operator of the computer must have How to save numbers, read/type Name and describe one physical access method which would ensure that only authorized personnel have access to use these cellular phones (2 marks) (2 marks) (2 marks) (2 marks) (2 marks) Easy to carry,

Passwords on the phones Total 10 marks Question 5 Explain the difference between the following pairs of terms: (a) Multi-user and multi-tasking (2 marks) Multi user is more than one person using the computer at the same time and multi tasking is when more than one application is open at one time (b) (c) (d) (e) Compact-Disk and Digital Versatile Disk Local-area network and Wide-area network Telecommuting and telemarketing Computer operator and data entry operator (2 marks) (2 marks) (2 marks) (2 marks) Total 10 marks CD is for music, DVD is for video Smaller area, wan is wider area Telecommuting is working at home while marketing is calling people to sell something Operator monitors tasks whike data entry inputs data

Question 6 Consider the following list of primary keys: List1: 55, 34, 45, 39, 51, 48, 59 List2: 34, 39, 45, 48, 51, 55, 59 (a) (b) (c) Explain the difference between serial and sequential order Serial is arranged as added, sequential is sorted by a key State which of the lists in part (a) is ordered serially or sequentially List1 is serial, List2 is sequential Re-write the two lists showing the result after inserting key 40 (2 marks) (2 marks) (2 marks)

List1: 55, 34, 45, 39, 51, 48, 59, 40 List2: 34, 39, 40, 45, 48, 51, 55, 59 (a)The key 51 needs to be deleted. For each list, explain if List1 or List2 would be faster slower or the same to complete the task The speeds would not change but the lists but be written to the new file (b)For each list, explain if access would be faster slower or the same to reach key 40 List 2 would reach key 40 first as it is in order (2 marks) Total 10 marks (2 marks)

SECTION 2 15 marks Question 7 A database contains data on motor vehicle accidents involving the driver, passenger, pedestrian, cyclist or other factors in recent years. He wants to extract some information based on the following tables: Table: CATEGORY Type DR PA PE CY OT Name
Driver Passenger Pedestrian Cyclist Other

ACCNO 101 121 124 127 131 135 139 143 152 157

Table: ACCIDENTS CNAME Type Hospitalized Jones, A. DR Y James, P. DR Y Hunte, E. DR N Gill, A. PA Y Maughan, F. DR N Jack, R. PE N Smith, A. CY N Brooks, K. CY Y Lashley, M. DR N Dash, G. PA Y

INSURANCE BIC MITUAL SEGIDOR MITUAL SEGIDOR BIC BIC SEGIDOR MITUAL MITUAL (1 mark) (1 mark) (2 marks)

(a) State the most appropriate data type for the Hospitalized field Y/N (b) State the name of a primary key in the ACCIDENTS ACCNO (c) State the fields in EACH Table that would be used to link the two tables Type in both tables (c) Write queries to produce: (i) all drivers who were hospitalized = DR AND Hospitalized = Y (ii) all cyclists who were not insured with BIC

(2 marks) (2 marks)

= CY AND INSURANCE <> BIC Total 8 marks Question 8 The Director of Highway Safety wants to analyze the trend in motor vehicle accidents involving the driver, passenger, pedestrian, cyclist or other factors. Answer the following questions based on the spreadsheet.
A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Country A B C D E F G H I B Driver 697 68 512 439 1959 411 223 65 22 C D E Traffic Accidents in 2009 Passenger 228 23 350 170 987 180 67 33 7 Pedestrian 62 10 130 38 670 80 48 22 18 Cyclist 8 4 26 5 110 8 3 3 1 F Other 1 1 18 0 27 2 0 0 0 G X 56534 4613 49216 29167 306649 41771 30756 8240 3498 H Total I FR

Country # of Cyclists

Write formulas or functions to calculate: (a) (b) the total number of vehicle accidents for country A =sum(B3:F3) the Fatality Rate (FR) for country A, which is determined by: Fatality rate = total accidents / (X / 100) (c) (d) (e) (f) = H3 / (F3/100) The average Fatality Rate for countries A to I = H3 / (F3/100) The number of countries in the spreadsheet =countA(A3:A11) Suppose the range A3 to G11 was named as TRAFFIC. If a country letter is written in cell D14, write a formula using Vlookup to produce the corresponding number of cyclists in accidents. (3 marks) (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark)

=vlookup(D14,TRAFFIC,5)

Total 7 marks

SECTION 3 45 marks Question 9 (a) (b) A 1 1 0 0 (c) B 1 0 1 0 State two values that can represent boolean values True or false Create a truth table for the Boolean expression (A OR B) AND (NOT B) A OR B 1 1 1 0 NOT B 0 1 0 1 RESULT 0 1 0 0 (5 marks) (1 mark)

Give an example EACH to illustrate a(n): (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) conditional statement IF Then Else loop While do, repeat until input statement Read real number 5 Total 10 marks (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark)

Question 10 The following data represents a list showing the number of employees that have cars: 1 0 0 3 2 1 2 2 0 0 999 (a) Write a program fragment using Pascal to read in up to 20 integers, where 999 represents the end of the data. Use an array named LIST in your code, and assuming that the array and all variables are already initialized. Print: (i) (ii) the number of employees with no car the total number of employees Total 15 marks

Question 11 (a) Write the result of the following algorithm. Start = 1 Finish = 5 For number = start to finish do If (number / 2) 0 Then Output number (b) (c) Explain what the symbol means Explain the purpose of the algorithm

(3 marks) (1 mark) (1 mark) Total 5 marks

Question 12 Convert the algorithm in question 12 to a program using Pascal. Output each number on a separate line. Total 15 marks

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