Year 8 - Computing systems Summative assessment – Questions

Assessment
Q1. Classify the items below as either software or hardware.
Note: There may be items that fall into neither category or both categories.

A. A keyboard
B. A program for editing images
C. A mouse Write the letters (for
example: A, B, C) in
D. The operating system the boxes labelled
E. A screen ‘Hardware’ or
‘Software’.
F. A file containing an image
Hardware
G. A browser (a program for surfing the web)
H. A wireless network adapter (a device for connecting
wirelessly to other computers)
Software
I. An astronomy program

Q2. Which of the following are programs?

Note: There may be more than one correct option. Select all that apply.

A. A word processor
B. An operating system
C. An image
D. The processor (CPU) Answer

Q3. What does a program consist of?

Note: Answer with a single word.

Answer

Q4. Provide two examples of operating systems.

Answer
Q5. What does a processor (CPU) do?
Note: There may be more than one correct option. Select all that apply.

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A. Stores programs
B. Stores data
C. Executes programs
D. Executes data
Answer
E. Processes data

Q6. What does the main memory (RAM) do?

Note: There may be more than one correct option. Select all that apply.

A. Stores programs
B. Stores data
C. Executes programs
D. Executes data
E. Processes data Answer

Q7. Provide two examples of storage devices.

Answer

Q8. What is stored in storage devices?

Note: There may be more than one correct option. Select all that apply.

A. Hardware components
B. Programs
C. Data
D. None of the above. The term ‘storage’ is misleading. Answer

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Q9. Classify the devices below as input or output devices.

Note: There may be devices that fall into neither category or both categories.

A. Mouse
B. Keyboard
C. Printer
D. Microphone
E. Speaker
F. Camera
G. Touchscreen Input
H. Processor
I. Sensors Output
Q10. You turn on your computer. As soon as it’s ready, you open a file containing a
document and start editing it using a word processor.
If you take a snapshot of your system at that point, what will the processor (CPU),
main memory (RAM), and storage devices contain? Select items from the list below.

A. All the instructions contained in the word processing

program
B. All the instructions contained in the operating system
C. All the documents saved on your computer
Processor
D. All the programs installed on your computer
E. All the data for the document that you are editing
Memory
F. The instruction that is currently being carried out
G. Data for the instruction that is currently being
Storage
carried out

Q11. What is the main task of a general-purpose computing system?

A. The main task is to execute programs.

B. There is no main task. It can perform any task
prescribed by a program.
C. The main task depends on the system. Different
systems may perform a different main task.
D. The main task depends on the user. Different users
may need the system to perform a different main task. Answer
Q12. Which of the following are logical operators?
Note: There is more than one correct option. Select all that apply.

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A. + (addition)

B. and (conjunction)

C. or (disjunction)
D. ⨉ (multiplication)

E. > (comparison: greater than)

F. not (negation or inversion)

Answer
G. mod (remainder)

Q13. If X is a logical statement, what sort of values can it have?

A. Any number
B. Any sentence that makes sense
C. Either true or false
D. Either ‘yes’, ‘no’, or ‘don’t know’ Answer

Q14. A laptop computer has a ‘Battery low’ indicator that starts flashing red when the
battery power falls below 20%, but only if the laptop is not charging.
Fill in the following table:

Battery below 20% Charging Battery low flashing red

true false

true

Which of the expressions below capture the behaviour of the ‘Battery low’ indicator?

A. Battery below 20% < Charging

B. Battery below 20% not Charging

C. Battery below 20% or Charging

D. Battery below 20% and not Charging

E. Battery below 20% only if not Charging Answer

Q15. Is the sentence below true or false?

Complex components like the processor and the

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main memory can be created out of simple logic True or false

gates.

Q16. Are the sentences below true or false?

A. Artificial intelligence is about creating machines that

True or false
are more intelligent than humans.
B. Creating a machine that can walk is not artificial True or false
intelligence because humans walk without thinking.
C. With machine learning, machines are trained how to True or false
perform tasks by showing them examples or
providing feedback.

D. Machine learning does not involve programming. True or false

E. The performance of machines that are trained to True or false

perform a task is only as good as the examples that
have been used to train them.

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