Integrated Questions (Unit A)

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A. Which of the following statements is correct? To be information literate, a person must be a degree holder and have the ability to gather information from web sites. B. Data is a collection of facts which are well-organized and meaningful for decision making. C. Normally, an information life cycle consists of data collection, organization, storage, processing, analysis, transmission and presentation. D. The success of a knowledge-based society is mainly determined by computers and money. 2. A. B. C. D. 3. Which of the following most unlikely contains stored programs? Storage room iPod Refrigerator Mobile phone Which of the following hardware may appear in a point-of-sale system? (1) Keyboard (2) Monitor (3) Printer (4) ATM card (1) and (2) only (3) and (4) only (1), (2) and (3) only (1), (2), (3) and (4) The objective of ____________ is to eliminate transcription errors. data verification data validation data collection data processing he data hierarchy of a database _______________________. creating, modifying and deleting tables filtering and sorting query, form and report record, table and database can be divided into several levels namely

A. B. C. D. 4. A. B. C. D. 5. A. B. C. D.

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6. A. B. C. D. 7. A. B. C. D. 8. A. B. C. D. 9. A. B. C. D. 10. A. B. C. D.

Which of the following storage media uses sequential access? DVD Hard disk Magnetic tape USB flash drive A _______________number 226 equals to a hexadecimal number 96. binary (base 2) octal (base 8) decimal (base 10) hexadecimal (base 16) Which of the following is the biggest decimal integer that can be expressed by a 12-bit binary number in sign-and-magnitude representation? 2047 2048 4095 4096 Which of the following character coding systems can be used to represent all the existing languages in the world? Guo Biao code ASCII Big5 code Unicode Joey has made an audio clip for a solo verse speaking. Which of the following is not correct? The quality of the audio clip is determined by its sampling rate. She can use Audacity to edit the audio clip. She can save the audio clip in MP3 format. If she wants to keep a better quality of the Solo Verse, she may use mono audio, rather than stereo audio to save the audio file. Peter has made a video for his birthday party. Which of the following statements is correct? He can use Microsoft Office to edit the video. In order to minimize the file size, he can save the video in AVI format. He can enlarge the display window to increase the frame size of the video. If he wants to share the video through the Internet, WMV format is a good choice.

11. A. B. C. D.

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12. Which of the following statements is not correct? A. There is always a loss in information during the digitization process. B. C. D. A portrait can be stored in form of a set of binary numbers. Analogue signals can be converted to digital signals by devices such as sound cards, scanners, magnetic tape recorders and TV tuner cards. Digitization involves two main procedures, namely sampling and quantization.

13. Which of the following statements is not correct? A. Internet Explorer 8.0 is a web browser developed by Microsoft. B. Communication software such as Microsoft Outlook can manage address books, appointment calendars and e-mails. C. Database software such as MySQL can create and manage data files, and execute queries. D. OpenOffice.org is an open source word processor.

14. Which of the following file formats can be used to store video files? (1) PNG (2) AVI (3) WMA A. (2) only B. (3) only C. (1) and (2) only D. (2) and (3) only 15. The characteristics of a video clip are shown below: Frame size = 300 200 pixels Frame rate = 20 fps Duration = 100 seconds What is the file size of the video? A. 600,000 bits B. 120,000,000 bits C. 960,000,000 bits D. Cannot be determined. 16. What will be the output when the following formula is inputted in a cell of a spreadsheet? =95%0.5*2 A. 5.00% B. 0.05 C. 1.8 D. None of the above
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17. Which of the following shortcut keys can be used to undo the changes in a common word processor? A. B. C. D. Ctrl + U Ctrl + X Ctrl + Y Ctrl + Z

18. If the theme of a presentation slide is changed, which of the following may also be changed? (1) Colour of the text (2) Position of the text (3) Font size of the text A. (2) only B. C. D. 19. A. B. C. D. (1) and (2) only (2) and (3) only (1), (2) and (3) In Datasheet View of Microsoft Access, we cannot ________________. modify the data type of a field modify the name of a field delete a field delete a record

20. An image with a large file size is inserted into a presentation file by object linking. Which of the A. B. C. D. following statements is not correct? The file size of the presentation file will not increase significantly after the insertion. The image can still be viewed from the presentation file even if the source image file is removed. If the source image is modified, the image shown in the presentation file will also be modified afterwards. If the source image is modified so that its file size decreases a lot, the file size of the presentation will not change significantly.

21. What is the orientation of the following page? A. Portrait B. Landscape C. Layout D. Bold

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22. Which of the following is /are the function(s) of spelling and grammar checker? (1) Check the spelling of words in a document. (2) Automatically correct common spelling and capitalization mistakes in a document. (3) Check the grammar mistakes in a document. (4) Provide a list of synonyms for the word selected in a document. (2) only (1) and (3) only (2) and (4) only (1), (2), (3) and (4)

A. B. C. D.

23. Peter stores his test marks of nine subjects in cells B2 to B10 of a spreadsheet. Which of the following formulae calculates the average mark of the nine subjects? A. B. C. D. =LARGE(B2:B10,9) =SUM(B2:B10)/9 =MODE(B2:B10) =COUNTIF(B2:B10,>0)

24. In a spreadsheet, cell D1 contains a formula =$A1+B2. If it is then copied to cell H4, which of the following will be the formula of cell H4? A. =$A1+B2 B. =$A1+F5 C. =$A1+F4 D. =$A4+F5 25. Refer to the spreadsheet below, what is the return value of the following formula? =IF(IF(COUNTIF(A1:B7,">10")>5,"A","B")="A","C","D")

A. B. C. D.

A B C D
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26. A database table named Marks stores the final marks of students. It contains two fields, namely student_name and final_mark. Which of the following SQL statements returns the A. B. C. D. number of students whose marks are over 50? SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Marks GROUP BY final_mark; SELECT COUNT(*)FROM Marks WHERE final_mark > 50; SELECT SUM(*) FROM Marks GROUP BY final_mark; SELECT SUM(*) FROM Marks WHERE final_mark > 50;

27. A database table named library_books stores the records of books in a library. It has five fields, namely book_name, book_id, book_status, book_author and borrowed_by. If a book is borrowed, its borrowed_by field will store the ID of the borrower. Otherwise, the borrowed_by field is nil. Assume each borrower only has one ID, what will be returned by the following SQL statement? SELECT COUNT(*) FROM library_books WHERE borrowed_by <> "nil"; A. B. C. D. The number of books in the library The number of books that are borrowed The number of users of the library The number of users who have borrowed the books

28. A database table named Citizens stores the information of citizens in a city. It contains the fields name and district which denote the name of the citizen and the district that the citizen lives respectively. What will be returned by the following SQL statement? SELECT district, COUNT(*) FROM Citizens GROUP BY district; A. B. C. D. The number of districts The number of citizens living in each district The number of citizens The districts which are listed in the order of the number of citizens

29. Which of the following calculations will lead to an overflow error under the 8-bit twos complement representation? (1) 10000002 000011112 (2) 011111102 111000002 (3) 111100002 + 111111002 A. B. C. D. (1) only (1) and (2) only (2) and (3) only (1), (2) and (3)

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30. Which of the following is not the advantage of using videos over graphical presentations for presenting information? A. B. C. D. It can present realistic scene directly. It can be saved in PDF format to reduce the file size when sending e-mails. It can draw audience attention by stimulating their sense of sight and hearing. It can present demonstrations which cannot be done live.

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Long Questions
1. Johnson conducts a marketing research on credit cards in Hong Kong. (a) He needs to collect opinions of credit cards from citizens. Suggest three methods for collecting data.(2 marks) (b) During collecting and inputting data, state three sources of errors that may appear.(3 marks) (c) Johnson decides to store the data in a database. Suggest two types of database management software for him.(2 marks) (d) Johnson designs a database table with the following data structure. Field name ID age preference num_cards The ID of a record The age of a respondent The credit card that a respondent prefers The number of credit cards that a respondent owns Description

(i)Write an SQL statement to return the number of respondents whose preference is ABC Bank Credit Card. (1 mark) (ii) Write an SQL statement to show the average number of credit cards owned by each age group (e.g. 18 years old, 19 years old and so on). (2 marks) (iii) Write an SQL statement to return the number of respondents who have more than 3 credit cards and are younger than 25 years old. (2 marks) 2. David is preparing a presentation for an inter-school competition. He is going to insert some pictures in his slides. (a) Suggest one example of application software which he can use for the presentation. (1 mark) (b) Instead of just putting all the text in the slides, suggest three common effective ways for information presentation which may meet different purposes. (3 marks) (c) He is going to insert a school logo and a photograph in his slides, where these two graphics are in two different file formats. (i) Given that the two formats are vector graphics and bitmaps, determine the file formats of the school logo and the photograph. (2 marks) (ii) Will the enlargement of a vector graphic make it unclear? Explain your briefly. (2 marks) (d) David finds that after inserting the photograph, the file size of the presentation file increases significantly. Suggest two possible methods to solve this problem. Explain your briefly. (4 marks) 3. A team is going to do a project about an environment protection. Tom is the team leader. (a) They collect information from the WWW. Suggest two examples of web browsers. (2 marks) (b) They input the collected information into some application software for data manipulation.
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Besides database software, suggest another type of software and give one example of the software. (2 marks) (c) They are required to write a report about their work. Suggest one type of software that they can use and give one example of this type of software. (2 marks) (d) They are going to give a presentation. Before that, they need to make a poster. (i) Suggest one example of graphics software for making the poster. (ii) Suggest one example of software that they can use to prepare the presentation. (e) Tom hopes to construct a web site to publish their findings. (i) (1 mark) (1 mark)

His team member tells him that some word processors can help build a web site. Give one example which can complete the task. (1 mark)

(ii) Other than the software that you have stated in part (e) (i), suggest one example of software to design the web site. (1 mark) (f) Suggest two software suites which may be useful to their works. 4. A teacher, Mary, has finished marking the marks of a quiz. (a) She is going to input the marks into a spreadsheet. (i) Suggest one example of spreadsheet software that she may use. (1 mark) (ii) Suggest one method to avoid transcription errors. (1 mark) (b) The marks of the quiz are stored in cells B2 to B40. (i) Write a formula to return the average mark of the quiz. (1 mark) (ii) Write a formula to return the number of students whose marks are larger than 90. (2 marks) (iii) Write a formula to return the maximum mark of the quiz. (2 marks) (c) Mary is going to make a chart to display the numbers of students who are in different ranges of marks. Suggest one type of chart for Mary. (1 mark) (d) Suppose Mary has saved the chart in part (c) as a file. She is preparing a presentation of student performance and wants to include this chart. (i) Suggest two main methods to insert the chart. Which method may increase the file size of the presentation file significantly? (3 marks) (ii) Mary has removed the source file of the chart accidentally. She finds that the chart cannot be shown in the presentation. Based on your in part (d) (i), suggest one more suitable method for Mary. (1 mark) 5. In a newspaper publisher, reporters collect news outside the office and save the news into computers. Editors then organize and process the news for publishing. (a) It is a trend to publish news by digital media. Suggest two hardware devices that reporters can use to collect the news in a digital format. (2 marks) (b) State two advantages of using digital data. (2 marks) (c) Which kind of audio, digital or analogue, has higher quality? Explain why briefly. (2 mark) (d) If a reporter uses a traditional camera to take photographs, which hardware device can he or she
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use to save the photographs into computers?

(1 mark)

(e) Suggest two common examples of software which may be used by reporters to input the news into computers. (2 marks) (f) State three text styles which can be found in the text below. Obama elected 44th president Barack Obama was elected as the 6. During Erics trip in Singapore, he has taken many photos and video clips. (a) He has a video clip with following characteristics: Length = 10 seconds Frame size = 300 200 pixels Frame rate = 20 fps Color depth = 24 bits/pixel (i) Calculate the memory required to store one video frame. Show the calculation and present your in bytes. (2 marks) (ii) Calculate the file size of this video clip. Show the calculation and present your in MB. (2 marks) (iii) If the frame rate increases, will the file size of the video clip increase? (1 mark) Eric also wants to make some audio clips to describe his trip. (b) Suggest one hardware device that can help Eric input his voice to a computer. (1 mark) (c) State two file formats for the audio clips. (2 marks) (d) If the settings for recording the audio clips are predefined as CD quality, i.e. stereo, 16 bits, 44 kHz sampling rate. (i) How many samples are taken in one second? (1 mark) (ii) What is the possible number of unique volume levels in one sample of the audio clip? (1 mark) (iii) Assume that the recorded audio clip is not compressed. Calculate the memory taken for recording one minute of the audio clip. Show the calculation and present your in MB. (2 marks) 7. Raymond has conducted a survey on the heights and weights of children at age 10. He has inputted the data into a spreadsheet where the heights of children are stored in cells B2 to B400 and the weights of children are stored in cells C2 to C400. (a) Write one formula for each of the following requirements: (i) Show the number of children whose heights are more than 150 cm. (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (1 mark) (3 marks)

Show the average weight of the children. (1 mark) th Show the height of the child who is 10 tallest among all the children. (1 mark) Show the median weight of the children. (1 mark) Show > 150 if the height of more than 150 children are over 140 cm, and show <=150 otherwise. (2 marks) (b) Raymond has used the filtering function in the spreadsheet. Will the filtered records be removed
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permanently? (1 mark) (c) Raymond is going to group the children by height, and then make a chart to display the percentage of children within each group. Which type of chart should he use? Raymond uses a word processor to make a report of this survey. (1 mark)

(d) Suggest two features of the word processor which can improve the readability of the report. (2 marks) (e) Suggest one file format that Raymond can use to save the report. (1 mark) (f) State one feature of the word processor that can automatically correct spelling mistakes when Raymond is typing the document. (1 mark) 8. Peter, a school librarian, is going to use computers to keep the records of books. He has designed a database table named Books to store the book records. The structure of the table is shown as follows. Field name book_name author is_borrowed borrow_date borrowed_by The name of the book The author of the book Whether the book is borrowed The date when the book is borrowed The name of the student who borrows the book Description

If a book is borrowed, its is_borrowed field will be set as yes and the borrowed_by field will store the library card number of the borrower. Otherwise, the is_borrowed field is no and the borrowed_by field is nil. (a) What problem may Peter encounter if he assigns book_name as a key field? Suggest one solution for the problem. (2 marks) (b) When a student borrows a book, Peter needs to update the record in the database. To input data, he can either use a bar code scanner or a keyboard. (i) State two advantages of using a bar code scanner. (2 marks) (ii) State one advantage of using a keyboard. (1 mark) (c) When Peter inputs the names of the books, he fails to use ASCII codes to store Chinese characters in computers. Suggest three common coding systems which can store Chinese characters. (3 marks) (d) Based on the design of the database table as stated, write an SQL statement for each of the following: Return the name(s) of the student(s) who borrow(s) the book named Introduction to Pascal. (1 mark) (ii) Return the total number of books which include both borrowed books and available ones. (1 mark) (iii) Show the book names borrowed by a student whose library card number is L0003. (1 mark) (i)
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(iv) Return the number of books with the name Computer Science.

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9. Betty is preparing a project report with topic of The new trends of mobile phones. (a) (i) She wants to compile a document with graphics. Which two types of software should she use? (2 marks) (ii) State two common and two different features of the software mentioned in part (a) (i). (4 marks) In making the report, Betty incorporates some related graphics. (b) (i) State two different graphics file formats. (2 marks) (ii) Betty notes that one of the images is too dark. Which kind of software should she use in order to improve image quality? (1 mark) Besides the report, Betty has to make a presentation to the classmates. (c) (i) Which kind of software should she use for presentation? (1 mark) (ii)How could she use the software mentioned in part (c) (i) to make her presentation more impressive? (2 marks)

10. Daisy is the chairperson of the S.5 Student Association of St. France Secondary School. She is going to make a commemoration album for all the S.5 classmates. She also needs to prepare for the graduation banquet. (a) In the process of making the commemoration album, Daisy is required to do the following two tasks. Sugget one type of software or hardware required for each of the following tasks: (i) Scan all the photos taken at school, transfer them to the computer, and then retouch the photos. (1 mark) (ii) Make the album. (1 mark) Daisy wants to use PowerPoint to do the presentation. The photos of students and teachers will be put in the PowerPoint file. (b) Suggest one method to make the PowerPoint presentation more attractive. (1 mark) (c) State two considerations before conducting the presentation. (2 marks) Daisy uses a database software to construct a simple database. She constructs a table called Student to record all the information of S.5 classmates and the class teacher. There are 4 classes in S.5 and totally 200 students. The following shows the structure of the Student table: Student Class name Class number Students telephone number Students address Class teacher name Class teachers telephone number (1 mark) (1 mark)

(d) How many records are there in the above table? (e) Which field(s) can be used to uniquely identify each record?
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(f) Suggest one problem of using this table. Suggest the solution briefly. (3 marks) After completing the table, Daisy wants to input the information of students into the database. However, she finds that there is a spreadsheet file called S5_Student.xls in the school. The spreadsheet contains the data that she requires. (g) State one method for Daisy to display all the data in the database. (1 mark) (h) Daisy has written a letter which informs the details of the graduation banquet to all the S.5 classmates. She wants to state the student name at the running head of each letter. Suggest one effective method for Daisy. (1 mark) 11. Mr Lee would deliver two tests and one examination to his students in each semester. (a) Suggest one type of application software for Mr Lee to prepare the tests and the examination. (1 mark) (b) State two editing features of the software suggested in part (a). (2 marks) Mr Lee uses the following spreadsheet to calculate the test marks and examination marks for his students. The weights of average mark of tests and examination are 3 and 7 respectively. A 1 Name B Tes t1 C D E Examinati on F Overa ll Score Tes Averag t 2 e Mark of Tests 72 65 68 62 55 64 74

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0

Andy Bonnie Chris Dora Eddy Flora Gary Highest Score Average

75 52 59 64 69 57 73

70 66 64 68 62 69 70

(c) Which cells in the above spreadsheet represent the average marks of the tests? (d) Suggest the formula for calculating the Average of Test 1. (e) Suggest the formula for finding the Highest Score of Examination. (f) Suggest the formula for calculating the Overall Score for Andy.

(1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark) (1 mark)

(g) What element can Mr Lee use to report the overall result? State two advantages of using it. (3 marks) After calculating the marks, Mr Lee will present the result in the staff meeting. (h) Suggest one type of application software for him. (i) State one advantage of the software suggested in part (h).
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Answer 1. C 2. A 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. C 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. D 11. D 12. C 13. D 14. D 15. D 16. A 17. D 18. D 19. A 20. B 21. A 22. B 23. B 24. D 25. D 26. B 27. B 28. B 29. B 30. B

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1. (a) Personal interview / telephone interview / questionnaire (any two 1) (b) Data source error, (1) transcription error (1) and transposition error (1) (c) MySQL (1) and Microsoft Access (1) (d) (i) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM response WHERE preference = "ABC Bank Credit Card"; (1) (ii) SELECT age, AVG(num_cards) FROM response GROUP BY age; (2) (iii) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM response WHERE num_cards > 3 and age < 25; (2) 2. (a) Microsoft PowerPoint (1) (b) List / table / chart / graphic presentation (any three 1) (c) (i) The school logo: vector graphics (1) The photograph: bitmap (1) (ii) No. (1) Vector graphics are usually composed of a number of vector objects. The properties of the objects are specified to indicate the appearance. Hence, the quality will not be affected even if we rescale a vector graphic. (1) (d) Method 1: Compress the photograph, e.g. save the picture in JPG format. (1) Then the file size of the photograph decreases significantly and thus, inserting the photograph will not cause a large file size increase to the presentation file. (1) Method 2: Use object linking which links the photograph to the presentation file. (1) This method only inserts the link of the photograph to the presentation file and so the file size will not be increased significantly. (1) 3. (a) (b) (c) (d)

Internet Explorer (1) and Firefox (1) (or any reasonable s) Spreadsheet (1) e.g. Microsoft Excel (1) (or any reasonable ) Word processor (1) e.g. Microsoft Word (1) (or any reasonable ) (i) PhotoImpact (1) (or any reasonable ) (ii) Microsoft PowerPoint (1) (or any reasonable ) (e) (i) Microsoft Word (1) (ii) Microsoft Expression Web/ Adobe Dreamweaver (any one 1) (or any reasonable ) (f) Microsoft Office / WordPerfect Office / OpenOffice.org (any two 1) (or any reasonable s) 4. (a) (i) Microsoft Excel (1) (ii) Input the marks twice and compare the both inputs. (1) (b) (i) =AVERAGE(B2:B40) (1)
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(ii) =COUNTIF(B2:B40,>90) (2) (iii) =MAX(B2:B40) (2) (c) Bar chart (1) (d) (i) Object linking (1) and object embedding (1) Object embedding (1) (ii) Object linking (1) 5. (a) Digital camera (1) and digital video camera (1) (b) Low transmission error rate (1) and smaller storage space (1) (c) Analogue audio (1) When the data is collected in digital format, some data will be lost during sampling. (1) (d) Scanner (1) (e) Microsoft Word / Notepad / WordPad (any two 1) (f) Italic, (1) underline (1) and bold (1) 6. (a) (i) 300 200 24 (1) = 1,440,000 bits = 1,800,000 bytes (1) (ii) 1,800,000 10 20 (1) = 360,000,000 bytes = 343 MB (1) (iii) Yes (1) (b) Microphone (1) (c) WAV / MP3 / WMA / RA (any two 1) (d) (i) 44 1,000 = 44,000 (1) (ii) 216= 65,536 (1) (iii) 16 44,000 60 2 (1) = 84,480,000 bits = 10,560,000 bytes = 10.1 MB (1) 7. (a) (i) =COUNTIF(B2:B400,>150) (1) (ii) =AVERAGE(C2:C400) (1) (iii) =LARGE(B2:B400,10) (1) (iv) =LARGE(C2:C400,201) (1) (v) =IF(COUNTIF(B2:B400,>140)>150,>150,<=150) (2) (b) No (1) (c) (d) (e) (j) Pie chart (1) Table of contents (1) and index (1) DOC / DOCX (any one 1) AutoCorrect (1)

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8. (a) If the library contains two copies of a book, then there will be two records with the same book name. The book_name will not be unique. (1) We can add a new field called book_id. (1) (b) (i) Make the data input process faster. (1) Minimize the errors of inputting data. (1) (ii) It is cheaper. (1) (c) Big5 code, (1) GB code (1) and Unicode (1) (d) (i) SELECT borrowed_by FROM Books WHERE is_borrowed = "yes" and book_name = "Introduction to Pascal"; (1) (ii) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Books; (1) (iii) SELECT book_name FROM Books WHERE borrowed_by = "L0003"; (1) (iv) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Books WHERE book name = "Computer Science"; (1) 9. (a) (i) Word processor (1) and spreadsheet (1) (ii) Common features: manage files / edit files / set viewing modes / switch windows / help (any two 1) Different features: Word processor can set the document formatting and styles. Spreadsheet offers the formula and charting functions. (any two 1) (b) (i) (ii) (c) (i) (ii) Bitmap (1) and vector graphics (1) Image editing software (1) Multimedia presentation software (1) Insert more multimedia elements (1) e.g. animations, audios and videos. (1)

10. (a) (i) (any one 1) (ii) (b) Incorporate interactive elements. (1) (c) (d) (e) (f)

Image editing software / scanner Desktop publishing software (1)

The background of the audience (1) and the flow of the presentation (1) 200 (1) Class and Class number (1) It is difficult to update if the class teacher is changed. (1) We can remove the fields Class teacher name and Class teachers telephone number from the Student table. And construct a new table called Teacher which contains three fields Class,
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Class teacher name and Class teachers telephone number. Then, use Class to link the two tables together. (2) (g) Import the data in S5_Student.xls to database. (1) (h) Use mail merge. (1) 11. (a) Microsoft Word (1) (or any reasonable ) (b) (or any reasonable s) (c) Cells D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7 and D8 (1) (d) =AVERAGE(B2:B8) (1) (e) =MAX(E2:E8) (1) (f) =(D2*3+E2*7)/10 (1) (g) Charts (1) It can make data more readable and attractive. (1) It helps users analyze and compare data, and identify the trend of data. (1) (h) Microsoft PowerPoint (1) (or any reasonable answer) (i) It can draw audiences attention easily. (1) (or any reasonable answer)

Spelling and grammar check (1) Find and replace (1)

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Integrated Questions (Unit B)

Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of the following is the reason for the wide usage of Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) in servers? A. More disk storage space B. Make backup easier C. Faster data access D. Fault tolerant 2. Which of the following interfaces supports the largest number of devices per port? A. Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) B. Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) C. Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) D. Universal Serial Bus (USB) 3. Tapes are usually used for backup purposes because (1) They are usually cheaper than CD-Rs or CD-RWs. (2) They are cheap and which make them suitable to be used for backup as the data stored will not be retrieved usually. (3) They are more reliable than CD-Rs or CD-RWs. A. (1) only B. C. D. (2) only (1) and (2) only (1), (2) and (3)

4. Which of the following is the full name of a CD-R? A. Compact Disk-Rewritable B. Compact Disk-Recordable C. Compact Disk-Readonly D. Compact Disk-Readmanywriteonce 5. Which of the following characteristics affects the quality of static images displayed on a monitor the least? A. Resolution B. Contrast ratio C. Refresh rate D. Dot pitch
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6. Which of the following storage media is volatile? A. DVD B. C. D. SATA hard disk Flash disk L2 cache

7. Which of the following statements about registers is/are correct? (1)Registers are located inside the CPU. (2)The performance of registers is poorer than that of RAM. (3)The total capacity of registers is larger than that of RAM on a computer. A. (1) only B. (2) only C. D. (1) and (3) only (1), (2) and (3)

8. Which of the following components is not present in a CPU? A. Arithmetic and logic unit B. Control unit C. L2 cache D. BIOS 9. Which of the following statements about pointing devices is/are true? (1)Trackballs are usually used in kiosks. (2)Double-clicking action cannot be done on a touchpad. (3)Touch screens are used for mobile devices only. (1) only (2) only (1) and (2) only (2) and (3) only

A. B. C. D.

10. Arrange the following printers in ascending order of cost per paper printed. (1)Laser printer (2)Inkjet printer A. B. C. D. (3)Thermal printer (1) < (2) < (3) (1) < (3) < (2) (3) < (1) < (2) (3) < (2) < (1)

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11. Arrange the following secondary storage media in ascending order of cost per byte. (1)DVD (2)CD (3)Flash memory (1) < (2) < (3) (1) < (3) < (2) (2) < (1) < (3) (2) < (3) < (1)

A. B. C. D.

12. Which of the following mappings is incorrect? A. B. C. D. Storage medium Flash memory Tape ROM DVD Data access Sequential Sequential Direct Direct

13. Which of the following is a primary storage medium? A. Hard disk B. ROM C. CD D. DVD 14. Which of the following statements about user interface of operating systems (OS) is/are correct? (1) Computers become popular after graphical user interface (GUI) was invented. (2)No training is required to use the OSs implementing GUI. (3) The OSs using GUI requires more resources than those using command line interface. A. (1) only B. (2) only C. (1) and (3) only D. (1), (2) and (3) 15. Which of the following statements about DVD is/are correct? (1)DVD drivers are used to access DVD-ROMs. (2)DVD-RWs are rewritable. (3)There are two kinds of DVDs only, namely DVD5 and DVD9. (1) only (2) only (1) and (2) only (1), (2) and (3)
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A. B. C. D.

17. Which of the following operating systems is single-user and multi-tasking? A. UNIX B. C. D. DOS 3.2 Windows 98 Linux

18. Which of the following is not supposed to be done by operating systems? A. Device configuration B. Virus prevention C. Memory management D. Network communication management 19. Which of the following statements is/are correct? (1)Computer resources are highly utilized in batch processing systems. (2)The idle time of batch processing systems concerning data entry is minimized. (3)The running cost of a real-time system is high. A. (1) only B. (2) only C. (1) and (2) only D. (1), (2) and (3) 20. Which of the following mappings is incorrect? A. B. C. D. I/O device Printer Scanner Digital camera Webcam Unit cps dpi ppm fps

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Long Questions
1 David has purchased a desktop computer with the following configuration: Pentium Core 2 Duo E8400 (3GHz) 6 MB L2 cache 2 1GB DDR2 RAM Intel Q35 chipset 500 GB hard drive (7,200 rpm) 64 MB video RAM 4X16X50X DVD writer Standard keyboard (a) State two other input or output devices that are commonly equipped with a desktop computer. (2 marks) (b) David finds that he cannot play a 3D video game smoothly. He wants to improve the performance significantly. Which components mentioned above should be upgraded? Explain your briefly. (3 marks) (c) There are RAMs on the motherboard. (i) Why are RAMs needed in a computer set? (2 marks) (ii) David bought two modules of 1 GB RAM instead of one module of 2 GB RAM. What is the advantage of doing so? Explain your briefly. (2 marks) (d) The description of the DVD writer is 4X16X50X. What is represented by the 4X? (1 mark) (e) What is L2 cache? Explain its function. (2 marks) 2 You are the chief IT technician of the SFX Primary School. An alumnus has donated ten computers to your school. (a) Although you have verified that the operating system of every computer can be initiated properly and the basic word processing software can be used, teachers complain that some software cannot be opened, especially those graphics handling software. (i) What is the possible problem? Justify your answer. (2 marks) (ii) Suggest another kind of software that may not be run properly as well. (1 mark) (iii) How can you improve the situation without invlovingextra resources? Explain your answer briefly. (2 marks) (b) The capacity of the original hard disk of each donated computer is 10 GB. This small capacity arouses dissatisfaction of some users. Luckily, some times later, your school gets another
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donation of ten 30 GB hard disks. When you put one of them into a donated computer, the capacity of the new hard disk indicated by the operating system is around 20 GB. (i) Explain why it is the case. (2 marks) (1 mark) (ii) Suggest one possible way to tackle this problem.

(c) After the computers have been used for couples of months, your principal has received a lot of complaints about the poor performance of the computers. Therefore, he decides to upgrade the computers. Due to financial constraints, only new CPUs can be affordable. He asks if this is feasible to upgrade the CPUs only. You disagree with him. (i) Give two reasons for your disagreement. (2 marks) (ii) What else can be upgraded to improve the performance of the computers? Suggest one possible way and explain your answer briefly. (2 marks)

3 Peter has a Pentium II (433 MHz) computer and wants to upgrade it. (a) He considers replacing the CPU with a new one, such as Pentium Core 2 Duo E7300. State one reason why it is not feasible. (1 mark) Currently, there are two kinds of hard disks available in the market, parallel ATA and serial ATA. The computer Peter wants to buy supports both of them. (b) (i) Describe the main difference between them. (3 marks) (ii) Which one should Peter buy? Justify your with two reasons. Peter is then told to buy the OEM version of the operating system he is going to use. (2 marks)

(c) (i) What is meant by OEM software? (2 marks) (ii) Why does the salesperson advise him to buy the OEM version instead of the normal one? Suggest one reason. (iii) What is the limitation of the OEM version compared with the normal version? (1 mark) (1 mark)

(d) Peter mentions that he usually opens a lot of applications at the same time. Which component should be paid attention to? Explain your answer briefly. (2 marks) 4 Amy wants to implement an electronic textbook scheme in her school. She is considering the type of computers for students to read the e-textbooks. She can choose between notebook computers and PDAs. (a) (i) Compare notebook computer and PDA in terms of cost, endurance and portability. (3 marks)

(ii) Suggest one shortcoming of these kinds of computers compared with desktop computers. Explain your answer briefly. (1 mark) (iii) Suppose the students use the computers to draw diagrams frequently. Which one is a better
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choice? Explain your answer briefly.

(3 marks)

Amy then contacts some publishers for acquisition of e-textbooks. Most publishers suggest her using the PDF format for the textbooks. (b) State three reasons why PDF is more suitable than RTF. (3 marks) After the scheme is implemented, some students PCs are infected by viruses. (c) (i) Suggest one utility to deal with this situation. (1 mark) (ii) Describe how the utility suggested in part (c)(i) is used to minimize the chance of virus infection in the future. (1 mark) 5 Microsoft Windows XP is one of the most popular operating systems nowadays. (a) State the kind of user interface used in Microsoft Windows XP. The predecessor of the Windows systems is Disk Operating System (DOS). (b) (i) State the kind of user interface used in DOS. (ii) Compare these two operating systems by completing the following table. Windows XP Single-user /multi-user Single-tasking / multi-tasking Resource required (high / low) Start-up time (long / short) Easy / difficult to learn (5 marks) The installation files of DOS were usually stored in floppy disks but they are no longer used for Microsoft Windows XP anymore. (c) (i) Explain why floppy disks are not used for Microsoft Windows XP. (2 marks) (ii) What storage medium should be used for the installation files of Microsoft Windows XP? (1 mark) (d) Someone wants to open certain files created in the DOS environment on the Windows XP platform, but he/she is not successful usually due to the incompatibility. Suggest one way to deal with the situation and explain your suggestion concisely. (2 marks) DOS (1 mark) (1 mark)

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Answer 1. D 2. D 3. B 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. C 11. A 12. A 13. B 14. D 15. B 16. A 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. C 1. (a) Mouse (1) Monitor (1) (Or any reasonable s) (b) The display card. (1) As playing a 3D video game requires a high performance CPU, a large amount of RAM and a high performance of display card. (1) In this case as, the CPU and the amount of RAM used are adequate, he should upgrade the display card with a faster Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and a larger amount of video RAM, say, 256 MB which is the bottleneck of the display performance. (1) (c) (i) A CPU can only process instructions stored in RAMs. (1) The operating system of the computer set has to be loaded into the RAMs first before users can use it. (1) (ii) Most of the computers like the one mentioned here support the Dual Channel Architecture (1) that doubles the memory throughput bandwidth by employing 2/4/6 RAM modules. Data transfer between CPUs and RAMs will be much smoother since the data bus speeds of CPUs are usually faster than those of RAMs. (1) (d) The writing speed for DVD+/-RW (1) (e) It is a fast static RAM located inside the CPU (1) that is used to store the frequently used data so as to raise the performance of the CPU (1).
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2. (a) (i)

There may not be enough RAM (1) as graphics handling software requires a large amount of RAM. (1) (ii) Database software (1) (Or any reasonable answer) (iii) It can be improved by setting a larger amount of virtual memory. (1) Although virtual memory is slow, the software should still be able to be opened after a longer period of time. (1) (b) (i) The BIOS (1) of the computer can only support hard disks with a maximum capacity of 20 GB. (1) (ii) To update the firmware of the BIOS to the latest version (1) (Or any reasonable answers) (c) (i) The socket of a new CPU may not be compatible with the motherboard. (1) The other components of the computers may not be able to catch up with the new CPUs. (1) (Or any reasonable answers) (ii) Replace the hard disks with the ones of less access time or faster disk rotational speed. (1) Since the OS and most of the software and files are stored on the hard disks, raising the performance of hard disks can significantly raise the overall performance of the computers. (1) (Or any reasonable answers) 3. (a) The new CPU cannot be plugged into the socket on the old motherboard. (1) (b) (i) Parallel ATA transmits data word by word (16 bits at a time for ultra ATA) (1), while a serial ATA does that bit by bit (1). (ii) SATA. (1) The data transfer rate is higher. (1) The maximum capacity of SATA hard disks is higher than that of UATA. (1) (c) (i) OEM stands for Original Equipment Manufacturer and OEM software refers to software that is sold to computer builders and hardware manufacturers (OEMs) in large quantities. (1) It will then be bundled with certain computers or hardware. (1) (ii) It is cheaper. (1) (iii) It is illegal to install it on other computers. (1) (d) RAM (1) since each application occupies space in the RAM of the computer. (1) (ii) Their parts are more delicate than those of desktop PCs so that they may require more 4. (a) (i)

Cost: Notebook computers are more expensive. (1) Endurance: Notebook computers are less susceptible to physical damage due to their strengthened casing. (1). Portability: PDAs are more portable due to their smaller sizes. (1) maintenance services. (1) (Or any reasonable answer) (iii) Notebook computers (1) since they have larger screens. (2)
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(b) PDF files can be read without letting users edit them. (1) PDF is cross-platform that can be read on almost all platforms without the need of alteration. (1) PDF files are usually smaller in size. (1) (Or any reasonable answers) (c) (i) Anti-virus program (1) (Or any reasonable answer) (ii) Update the virus definitions regularly. (1) 5. (a) Graphical User Interface (GUI) (1) (b) (i) Command line user interface (1) (ii) Windows XP Single-user / multi-user Single-tasking / multi-tasking Resource required (high / low) Start-up time (long / short) Easy / difficult to learn Multi-user Multi-tasking High Long Easy DOS Single-user Single-tasking Low Short Difficult

(1 mark for each correct pair, 5 marks totally) (c) (i) It is not feasible as numerous floppy disks will be required (1) to store the large installation files of Windows XP. (1) (ii) CD / DVD (1) (d) DOS emulators. (1) They are programs that can be used to run certain DOS programs or open certain DOS files on the Windows XP. (1) (Or any reasonable answer)

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