TEST CODE 01229032

FORM TP 2013015 JANUARY 2013

CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE®

EXAMINATION

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Paper 032 - General Proficiency

ALTERNATIVE TO SBA

1 hour 30 minutes

(17 JANUARY 2013 (a.m.))

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of FOUR questions.

2 Answer ALL questions.

3. Number EACH answer correctly in the answer booklet.

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Answer ALL questions.

1. WORD PROCESSING

The Election Authority of a CARICOM state is responsible for General Elections. Three parties
are contesting the general election to be held in November 2013. Computers and related equipment
will be used to prepare documents, spreadsheets, databases and to develop computer programs to
be used to handle the various tasks related to the elections.

The following letter is sent to the leaders of the three parties contesting the election.

THE ELECTION AUTHORITY

Office of the Director

11 May 2013

Mr John Persaud
Leader of Unity Party

Dear Mr Persaud:

National Election 2013

The Prime Minister has announced that the General Election will be held

on 20 November 2013. As such, please note that Nomination Day will be

20 September 2013. Your complete list of candidates must be submitted to

the election officials between 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the City Hall. Failure

to submit your complete list of fifty candidates will result in your party not

being able to contest the election.

Patrick Collins
Director

Ensuring Free and Fair Elections

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(a) State the line spacing and justification that have been applied to the text in the body of the
letter. (2 marks I

(b) State THREE formatting features that have been used for emphasis in the letter.
(3 marks)

(c) Outline how you would remove the underline from the date of the Nomination Day.
(2 marks)

(d) Which of the following features are found in the letter?

(i) Header

(ii) Footer

(iii) Footnote

(iv) Endnote (2 marks)

(e) Briefly explain how you would replace all occurrences of the word 'election ' ONLY in
the body of the letter with the word 'Election'. (4 marks)

(f) The election authority has recently designed a logo. Explain how you would insert the
logo into the letter above the text "THE ELECTION AUTHORITY". (4 marks)

(g) A mail merge was used to prepare the letter on page 2. State the name of the document
that contains the merge fields. (1 mark)

(h) State the number and names of merge fields that this letter should have. (2 marks)

Total 20 marks

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2. SPREADSHEET

Consider the following chart which was created from the data in a spreadsheet.

60000
Q '"'
Q
Q,l 40000
50000 KL
MN Registered Voters
0
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Z•••
30000
J
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80000 '11 0
70000
20000
10000

(a) Name the type of chart shown. (1 mark)

(b) Write the name of another type of chart which would be suitable to represent the data in
the spreadsheet. (1 mark)

(c) State the title of the chart and the title of the horizontal axis. (2 marks)

(d) What is the purpose of the chart? (1 mark)

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(e) Using the chart on page 4, copy and complete the spreadsheet below which was used to
create the chart.

(5 marks)

(f) Using the spreadsheet completed in Part (e),

(i) write a FUNCTION based on the data to calculate the TOTAL number ofregistered
voters (2 marks)

(ii) state an appropriate format for the values entered in the No. of Voters column in
Part (e). (1 mark)

(g) The data in the spreadsheet were sorted in DESCENDING order by the No. of Voters
column.

(i) Write the RANGE OF CELLS used to perform the sort. (1 mark)

(ii) Which district would be at the top of the sorted list? (1 mark)

(h) You wish to filter the data for all districts with over 25,000 registered voters. Copy and
complete the table below in your answer booklet with the criterion that would filter the
data.

District Voters

(2 marks)

(i) Write the results produced from Part (h). (2 marks)

(j) If the = sign is omitted from the function max(B2 ..B6) in cell BIO, what would appear in
the cell? (1 mark)

Total 20 marks

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3. DATABASE MANAGEMENT

Consider the following database containing two tables:

TABLE 1: DISTRICT

DCODE DEM
BCE
INT
ESI
ESC
DNAME

BE A
D
C

TABLE 2: POLLING

DCODE Private
Government
PTYPE
PLACES
20
30200
25
50120
75
60
90

A
EC
D
B
CE D

(a) State

(i) the number of records and fields in the POLLING table (2 marks)

(ii) the appropriate data types for the PLACES and DCODE fields in the POLLING
table (2 marks)

(iii) appropriate field(s) in the POLLING table that can be considered a primary key
(2 marks)

(iv) the name of the field used to join the two tables. (1 mark)

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(b) Ifthe data in the POLLING table (Table 2) is arranged in ascending order by the PLACES
field, state the PTYPE that would be at the top of the table. (1 mark)

(c) The result of a query is shown below:

(i) What does the number 720 represent? (1 mark)

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(ii) State the name of the table that was used in this query. (1 mark)
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(d) The following query was created on the data in the database:

DNAME >100
TYPE
POLLING
PLACES
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DISTRICT 'Government'
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(i) Explain the purpose of the query. (1 mark)

(ii) State the name(s) of the table(s) used to create the query. (1 mark)

(iii) State number of records that will be displayed when the query is executed.
(1 mark)

(e) The following query was created on the data in the database:

PLACES cost: [PlACESl*10 GJ

POLLING

(i) State the type offield that is created called cost. (1 mark)

(ii) Name the type of data that would be found in the cost field. (1 mark)

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(f) The following report was created.

ELECTION POLLING PLACES

DNAME TYPE PLACES

BCE
Government 120

Private 30

Summary for 'DNAME' = BCE (2 detail records)

Sum 150

DEM

Government 200

Private 50

Summary for 'DNAME' = DEM (2 detail records)

Sum 250

ESC

Government 75

Private 25

Summary for 'DNAME' = ESC (2 detail records)

Sum 100

ESI

Government 90
Private 50

Summary for 'DNAME' = ESI (2 detail records)

Sum 140
INT

Government 60
Private 20

Summary for 'DNAME' = INT (2 detail records)

Sum 80
Grand Total

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Name

(i) the field us.edto group the records in the report (1 mark)

(ii) the field(s) used to sort the records in the report (2 marks)

(iii) ONE summary feature used in the report (1 mark)

(iv) the title of the report. (1 mark)

Total 20 marks

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4. PROGRAMMING AND PROBLEM SOLVING

Three parties registered to.contest an election. One of the parties later withdrew, therefore only
two of them obtained votes. The following program segment refers to the election results obtained.

(a) The declaration statements are listed below.

Line No. Program Code

1 Program Winner;
2
3 Const base = 100;
4
5 Var
6 partyl, party2: integer; {votes obtained by the two parties}
7 19: integer;
8 percent: real;

(i) State TWO data types used in the program and indicate the line number(s) where
the data types are used. (4 marks)

(ii) Explain the statement in line 3. (4 marks)

(iii) (a) What type of error would occur if the semicolon (;) was missing at the end
of line 8? (1 mark)

(b) State the phase of the program when this error would occur. (1 mark)

(iv) Rewrite the code in line 6 if all three parties had contested the election.
(2 marks)

(b) The body of the program is as shown below.

Line No. Program Code

9 Begin
10 19:= 0;
11 Write ('Enter the votes obtained by the two parties: ');
12 Readln (party 1, party2);
13 If (party 1 > party2) then
14 19 := partyl
15 Else
16 19 := party2;
17 pct := (lg/( party 1+ party2» * base;
18 Writeln ('The winning party has' ,pct, , percent of
19 votes cast');
20 End.

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(i) What does the variable 19 represent in the program and what is its initial value?
(3 marks)

(ii) State the type of control structure used in the program. Indicate the line numbers
where this control structure is used. (2 marks)

(iii) State the line number for an arithmetic operation used in the program.
(1 mark)

(iv) Copy and complete the following trace table if the numbers 10,000 and 30,000
were entered for party 1 and party2 respectively.

p1 p2 19 pet

(5 marks)

(c) What will be the output of the program? (1 mark)

(d) Draw a flowchart to represent lines 12-16 of the PASCAL program. (6 marks)

Total 30 marks

END OF TEST

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