IT – Unit 1

Exam 1
Full Time

Grade EDEXCEL AS 2025

Duration 1 HOUR

Lecturer: ahmed muhsin

No 106, S D S Jayasinghe Mw, Kohuwala

No 337/1, Negombo Road, Wattala

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 1. McDonalds® recently introduced ‘self-serving kiosks’ in most of their branches across the
world. Customers can now directly place their order on these kiosks instead of having to place
their order over the counter to a cashier.
These kiosks accept card payment or cryptocurrency from customers.

Below figure 1 shows an image of a self-serving kiosk

Figure 1 Self-serving kiosk at McDonals

Source: https://mcdonaldsblog.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/EOTF-Restaurant.jpg
a) What type of a computer would the self-serving kiosk shown in Figure 1 be considered as:

 Super-computer
 Embedded computer
 Firmware computer
 Minicomputer
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b) State the term used to refer to the permanent software that is embedded into hardware
components of this self-serving kiosk shown in figure 1.

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c) State a type of memory that would be used to store the permanent software that is embedded
into hardware components of this self-serving kiosk shown in figure 1.

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 d) Name two peripheral devices attached to the self-serving kiosk shown in figure 1.

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e) The self-serving kiosk shown in figure 1 accepts NFC payments.

Explain how NFC technology would work in this self-serving kiosk.

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f) Figure 2 shows a gift voucher issued by McDonalds® to some of its customers.

Figure 2 gift voucher by McDonalds

Source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/145364147/McDonalds-Trust-QR-codes

The gift voucher in figure 2 shows a QR code.

List 2 parts of a QR code and for each part that you list, state its function in the QR code.

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(Total for question 1 = 11 marks)

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2. Burley’s Burgers® in Colombo issues an active RFID tag to customers once they have placed
their order at the cashier.
A customer’s active RFID tag would automatically start beeping when the customer’s order is
ready for collection.

a) List two differences between an active RFID tag and a passive RFID tag.

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b) List two components of an active RFID tag

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c) Explain how this RFID system works to keep customers informed when their order is ready for
collection.

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(Total for question 2 = 7 marks)

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 3. Sajith is canvassing for the upcoming presidential election in Sri Lanka. He uses a Microsoft
Surface to work on while travelling from city to city.

Figure 3 shows a Microsoft Surface

Figure 3 Microsoft Surface

a) Microsoft Surface demonstrates technological convergence

Explain two benefits of technological convergence in this device

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b) The Microsoft Surface contains start-up instructions that define how the device starts up.
These start-up instructions are referred to as:

 GigaHertz
 Virtual Memory
 System Software
 Basic Input Output System
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c) The storage device that would store the start-up instructions on the Microsoft Surface is the:

 ROM
 RAM
 SSD
 HDD
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d) The storage device that would store programs running in the background on the Microsoft
Surface is the:

 ROM
 RAM
 SSD
 HDD
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e) State two factors that can be used to assess the performance of the Microsoft Surface.

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f) The Microsoft Surface has a hexa-core processor. Below are the specifications of the
processor.
2 x 2.4GHz, 3 x 1.9GHz, 1 x 2.8GHz
Create an expression to show the total speed of the processor in Hertz.

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g) The Microsoft Surface has a built-in 256GiB SSD storage, which has a read/write rate of
120MiB/sec.
Create an expression to show how long it would take to read all the data from a full 256GiB
SSD.

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(Total for question 3 = 15 marks)

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4. Piyumal is a photographer.
The camera that he has produces images that are 4000 pixels high, 6000 pixels wide and use
12 bits per pixel for storage.

a) Construct an expression that shows the size of a single image in mebibyte (MiB).

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b) Piyumal wants to upload 100 MiB of images to a website.

The website has restricted uploads to a maximum of 256 kilobits per second.
Construct an expression to show the minimum time needed to for the images to be
uploaded.

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 c) Piyumal tries uploading some of his videos over a WiFi network.
The WiFi network has a bandwidth of 100Mbps.
Construct an expression to show how long it should take, in seconds, to upload a 10GiB
file.

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d) Piyumal publishes some of his images on various social media platforms. He licenses
these images using creative commons licensing.
State two creative commons license conditions that he could apply.

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d) Piyumal uses a photo-editing software to edit the photographs he captures.
The photo-editing software he uses, has a single-user license.

Describe how single-user license works.

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e) Apart from single-user license, list two other types of software licenses.

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f) List two functions carried out by the firmware in Piyumal’s camera

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g) List one method that Piyumal could use to transfer photographs from his camera to his
laptop.

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(Total for question 4 = 17 marks)
TOTAL FOR THIS PAPER = 50 MARKS

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