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Information & Communication Technology 1, II
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‘Additional Reading Time - 10 minutes Pority in answering.
Information & Communication Technology I
Instructions: 5
% Answer all. questions,
‘%* In each of the questions 1 to 40, pick one of the alternatives (1), (2), (3), (4) which is
correct or most appropriate,
% Mark a cross (X) on the number corresponding to your choice in the answer sheet provided.
+ Further instructions are given on the back of the answer sheet. Follow them carefully.
1, Following four computers of the same brand are available at four different shops for the same]
Price. Each of them has a 1 TB hard disk, 1 VGA port and consumes the same amount off
electricity. Which one is most suitable to buy?
(1) Processor: 2.9 GHz, Cache: 6MB, RAM: 4GB, 4 USB ports
(2) Processor: 3.1 GHz, Cache: 6MB, RAM: 4GB, 4 USB ports
(3) Processor 3.6 GHz, Cache: 12MB, RAM: 8GB, 8 USB ports
(4) Processor: 3.6 GHz, Cache: 16MB, RAM: 8GB, 8 USB ports
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2. Which of the following devices could be used to capture English text from printed documents?
(1) Bar Code Reader (2) Magnetic Ink Character Reader (MICR) |g] 216
'3)_Optical Character Recognition (OCR) device (4) Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) device 2
3. Which of the following is a solid state device?
(1) Compact Disk (2), Hard Disk Drive (3) Magnetic Tape Drive (4) USB Flash Drive
Ss
|Z Which of the following executes the instructions of computer programs?
(1) Cache 2) Ceniral Processing Unit (CPU)
(3) Hard Disk @ Random Access. Memory (RAM)
5. Which of the following is required to network four computers in a star topology’?
(1) a firewall ya moter (3) a server (4) a switch
IG Which of the following is the octal equivalent of decimal 216,,?
(1) 40, Q) 43, 6) B, (4) 330,
7. Which of the following is the decimal equivalent of binary 1000, 1000,?
(1) 24, 2) 136, @) ™m, (4) 1024,
IG which of the following is the hexadecimal equivalent of octal 1572,
(1) DEB, -Q)37Ay, 6G) 3710, (4) 12562,
hone Terabyte (1 TB) is equal to
(1) 1024 KB. (2) 1024 x 1024 KB.
-G)_1024 x 1024 x 1024 KB. (4) 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 KB.
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10. Which of the following statements are true regarding the ASCII coding system?
‘A Characters E and e are represented using the same code.
B - # and $ symbols have different codes.
C - Sinhala characters do not have ASCII codes,
() B only 2) Aand C only (3) Band C only (4) AIA, B and ©
Il, According to the adjacent logic circui
What will be the 42
respective outputs at P and Q when A, 2 and C inputs are ’
respectively 1, 1 and 0? B
ce 0 +o
() 0,0 Q) 1 10 wid
12, What is the shortcut key combination in a word processing software to select the entire document
() Ci +A @Q) Cul +B GB) Cul + C @ Cul + Vv
13, Which of the following icons in a word processing software can be used to align the left and
right sides of a text parallel to each other?
a @ = @
14, Which of the following statements are correct regarding a word processing software?
A= It lets the user to add tables and images to a document.
B - Format Painter tool (BH) lets a user to copy formatting like font style and apply it to
other pieces of text.
C- Landscape and Portrait are the two page orientations available.
() A and B only (2) A and C only (3) Band C only —_(4) Al A, B and C
15. Which of the following icons could be used to format a character as a subscript in a Word]
Processing Software?
OA Qe B) Ae oy
© To answer questions 16 and 17, consider the following spreadsheet segment which contains the|
ICT marks obtained by students for three term tests.
16, What is the formula to be entered into cell D9,
to find the number of students who appeared
for the 3rd term test?
the correct formula to be entered
into cell E2 to calculate the average mark of
‘Shanaya for the three term tests?
-G)=AVER
(4) =SUM(B2:D2y/3
18, Which of the following formulas (I, 11, III) contain valid cell addresses?
I: XSIS#YSI Ii P$14$Q82 IM; M2*NS2
(1) 1 and It only (2) Vand 11 only (3) Hand IM only (4) All 1, I and UL
=)
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© Questions 19 to 22 are based on the following four partially shown database tables that are|
designed for a bus seat reservation system.
BUS_STATION,
Bus_station_code Name
wi Colombo
SI Galle
NI Jaffna
ROUTE
Note: Routes are identified by the Route_code. Many routes can start from the same bus station
‘and many routes can end at the same bus station,
Route_code | From_bus_station_code | _To_bus_station_code
1 Wi NI
24 WI SI
ROUTE_INSTANCE
Note: Assume there is only one trip per route per day.
Route_code Date Available_seats
11 (01-07-2024 23
Lt (02-07-2024 35
21 01-07-2024 34
21 (02-07-2024 35
SEAT_RESERVATION
Note: Seat_number uniquely identifies a scat.
~ [_ Route code Date ‘Seat_number [Passenger_name_| Passenger_phone
1 (01-07-2024 1 ‘ABC Femando_| OUI
11 01-07-2024 2 DEF Sivarajah_| 0333333333
21 01-07-2024 1 UK Meerasahib_ [0222222222
19, What is most suitable to be the primary key of the ROUTE table?
(1) From_bus_station_code (2) Route_code
(3) To_bus_station_code (4) Rotite_code + From_bus_station_code
What is most suitable to be the primary key of the SEAT_RESERVATION table?
(1) Route_code (2) Route_code + Date
(3) Route_code + Seat_number (4) Route_code + Date + Seat_number
121. What is a foreign key in this database?”
(1) Bus_station_code in the BUS_STATION table
2) Date in the ROUTE_INSTANCE table
(3) Seat_number in the SEAT_RESERVATION table
(4) To_bus_station_code in the ROUTE table
Pa
22. If it is decided to add a description to each route (e.g., Kurunegala-Anuradhapura-Vavuniya.to|
Route 11), to which table should that field be added?
(0) BUS_STATION (2) ROUTE
@) ROUTE_INSTANCE, “Gy SEAT. RESERVATION
123. The roots of a quadratic equation ax? + bx +c =0 are found by the equation x= 726°
If a program is to be written to use this equation to find roots, what would be the
Program?
() a, be Q) a,b, Be @) x4, b€ @ sab Be
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124. Suppose you are designing an algorithm to input an employce's age, check if that employee is
igible for retirement and output the result. The age of retirement is 60 years. Which of the]
following control structures would be most appropriate to use in this algorithm?
‘)-Sclection only (2) Sequence only
(3) Heration and selection only (4) Sequence and selection only
125. Consider the following P,Q and R logical expressions:
(A’>= 10) AND NOT (B> 30) +
(A"< 10) OR (B%< 30) 1
R: (A’<> 10) OR (B= 30) +
If above A and B contain the values 10 and 10 respectively, which of the following represents
the correct outcomes of P,Q and R respectively?
(1) false, false, true (2) false, true, true (3) true, true, false (4) true, true, true
126. Suppose you want to store the full name of a person in a variable. What would be the most
suitable data type for that variable?
(1) Boolean 2) Char (3) Integer (4) String
127. When operator precedence in Pascal is considered, what will be the result of 4—13+5?
(ly -4 2) 6 G) 14 (4) 24
28. In which of the following instances would you use an if-then-else selection structure in
structured programming?
(1) to assign a value to the variable age and print the value stored in age
(2) to validate a password entered by a user
(3) to calculate the sum of first 100 integers
(4) to repeat a task for 15 times
© Questions 29 and 30 are based on the Pascal codes shown in figures 1 and 2 respectively.
progran looptest;
var t,J : integers
begin
for t i= 1 to 2 do
begin
witte wes dot for J r= 1 to2 do
beaten write tJ):
ae
wrtieta(sun); Figure 2
end
Figure 1
129. What would be the output if the code shown in Figure 1 is executed?
ao 10 Qu @ 15
30. Which nested control structure is visible in the Pascal code of Figure 2?
1) iteration 2) iteration (3) selection (4) selection
Tinside inside ins inside
iteration selection iteration selection
131. A program written in which of the following programming languages can be executed directly
by the CPU of a computer?
(1) Assembly @c (3) machine language (4) Pascal
132. Which of the following statements are true?
‘A Itis important to do ‘Identification of requirements’ correctly in both waterfall and iterative
incremental models.
B - It is suitable if ‘integration testing’ is done only when the *
~ ‘System testing’ should be done only after ‘acceptance testing’,
() A and B only (2) Aand C only 3) Band C only (4) All A, B and C
it tests’ are successful.
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133. Which of the following will best help the users of a proposed system to get an idea of its
features and how it will appear?
(1) Interviews with system developers
(2) Questionnaires from system developers
(3) Sample reports / files given to system developers
(4)_The prototypes of the proposed system shown by system developers
134. Consider the following steps to send an email using a service like Gmail
‘A-- Login to the email account B - Click *Send"
C= Click *Compose’ or *New* 1D - Type the subject and the message
E-Type the “To address
Which of the following gives the correct order of the above steps?
MASB>C>DS>E QMA>C>E>D—>B
G)C>BFE>D+A “@C>D>E>A>B
13S. Which of the following are true regarding the use of a particular software through SaaS of cloud|
computing?
‘A The client needs an Internet connection to use the software.
B - The client needs to design and code the software.
C- An agreement with the cloud service provider is required to use the software.
(1) Aand B only @) A and C only 3) Band C only (4) Al A, B and C
136. Which of the following is essential to connect a computer to the Internet?
(1) a fiber optic connection (2) an uninterruptible power supply
G) a web browser (4)_a service from an Intemet Service Provider
137. Which of the following statements are true regarding raster images?
A - If an image uses n bits to keep information about each pixel, then that image is capable!
of displaying 2" colours.
B - Image resolution refers to the number of pixels that exist within an image.
C-A graphic with a large number of bits per pixel and a high resolution has a small file
size.
(1) A only (2) B only @) A and B only (4) A and C only
138. Which of the following statements are true?
A - acedb is an example for a video file type.
B - MP3 is an example for an audio file type.
CC - The frames between two key frames in an animation are called tween frames.
(1) A and B only (2) A and C only _@) Band C only (4) All A, B and C
139. You have been assigned to design a web page to be used by the out-patients to reserve times
to meet doctors at a clinic of a govemment hospital. Which of the following is not essential to
be included on that page?
(1) A video showing the doctors treating the patients in the clinic
(2) Facility to view times available for reservation on a selected date
(3) Facility to enter patient's name, NIC number and phone number to complete a reservation
(4) Information on dates and times the clinic is open and location of the clinic
40. Consider the following statement taken from an HTML. file:
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Pry Thee page is qasan 6o% enfin oy (ad:m0 vog) Omou,
soba Gumus srTyssi Lib (ongsnyoom gy) fico, 2023(2024)
General Certificate of Education (Ord. Level) Examination, 2023 (2024)
emdnd atfelyn maven Ti
favs, Gp puMod Ggm~logacusiind — 1, IT
Information & Communication Technology I, II
Information & Communication Technology I
4% Answer five (05) questions only, including the first question and four others.
4% First question carries 20 marks and each of the other questions carries 10 marks.
4 (i) The song database of a radio station has a unique identifier (Song id) for each song. In
addition, the song title and the details of its copyright owners are also stored. For each
instance a song is played, each owner of that song is to be paid Rs. 100. The radio station
centers the Song_id of the songs that it plays to the database each day so that the owners of|
the songs can be duly paid at the end of each month.
Write down two different pieces of information that could be obtained from this system after
the necessary data processing.
i) Five pons on a computer labelled [—F © © © ®
as ® ~ © are shown in the figure.
ES] | SS
(@) Write down the label of the port which can be used to connect a projector with an HDMI|
cable.
(®) Write down the label of the port that can be used to connect an RJ45 cable.
Gii) Convert 85,, to its binary equivalent,
it relating {0 the boolean expression P = C+ AB including AND, NOT
(iv) Draw the logie «i
and OR gates only.
(¥) For each of the blanks labelled A to D of the following paragraph, pick and write down the|
suitable replacement from the two terms given near it within parentheses.
When the computer is switched on the ...A... (application software, BIOS) runs to check alt}
the hardware and confirm that they are functioning properly. Then the operating system is
loaded into the ...B... (hard disk, memory). It sets up the initial environment for running
processes on the computer. Then it provides an interface for the user to log in. Once logged
in, the user can start many processes. The ...C... (anti-virus software, operating system) runs|
as and when necessary to fulfil the various requirements of these processes and do other|
‘management activities of the ...D... (BIOS, computer).
(vi) Some formatting options available in a word processing software are shown below:
Option B I U $ q A | Aa
Label P a R s T u v
Write down the labels of the any two options that have been used to do the following sentence|
formatting.
Sentence before formatting: Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching.
Sentence after formatting: NEVER STOP LEARNING, BECAUSE LIFE NEVER STOPS TEACHING,
[see page seven 01./202(2024)/80E:
(vi) Indicate whether the following four statements labelled A to D regarding presentations / presentation}
software are true or false by drawing % or x symbols respectively against cach label.
A- The slide layout can be used to create a slide with a title, some text bullets
and two images.
B ~ Video content cannot be added to an electronic presentation,
CC - It is good to add a lot of long sentences to cach slide.
D - Before making the slides, it is suitable to plan the presentation considering its purpose,|
the time duration and the expected audience.
(viii) A program is required to check the
spellings in a text file named by the
user. The program isto offer suggestions
for incorrect words and then do. what
the user wants with respect to them:
A flowchart drawn for the purpose is
shown at right.
Write down the labels of the correct
replacements for P to U choosing from
the given list
List:
‘A= Is the word correct?
BK Do what user wants
B- End-of-file?
D.- Get user input
K- Open file
Ng. Print suggestions
(ix) (@) ‘Identification of requirements’ is the first step in the System Development Life Cycle
(SDLC), List its 2, 3°, 4% and 5® steps in the correct order.
(® In which step of SDLC is the use of prototypes most productive?
(x) Consider the email header given below.
To: [email protected]
Ce: [email protected], [email protected]
Bee: [email protected]
Indicate whether the following statements labelled A to D are true or false by drawing or|
X symbols respectively against each label.
A - riyas is the primary recipient of the email.
B - raja will know that sheron also received the emai
- riyas can see that the email was also sent to saman.
D - Everyone in the To and Ce fields can see each other's email addresses.
[see page eight 01./2023(2024)/80/E-1, is - ==
\2/ The following spreadsheet shows some statistics related to ICT usage of Sri Lanka for the period!
of 2014-2020.
‘EX Adoption of silanka in 2014-2020 |
Difference of
‘Mobile
Fixed broadband | Mobile cellular Number of eon
subvaiptions | subscriptions Internet users
|
Source: huips:fourworldindata.org
(@.The column F is used to calculate the difference of mobile cellular subscriptions and the
number of Intemet users. The value relevant for the year 2014 is calculated by deducting!
the relevant value in column E from the relevant value in column D. Write down the suitable
formula for cell F3 to display the result.
Gi) Assume the formula written in cell F3 is copied to the cell range F4:F9 to get the differences|
of mobile cellular subscriptions and the number of Internet users for the period of 2015 to}
2020. Write the formula which shows this difference for the year 2019 (cell F8).
i) (a) What is the formula to be written in cell BIO to get the lowest value for fixed telephone|
subscriptions?
(b) What is the formula to be written in cell Cll to get the highest value for fixed broadband
subscriptions?
(iv) Write down the labels of the following steps in proper order to format the numbers in the’
cell range B3:FII as comma separated for every 1000.
Label Description
Select ‘Number’ tab and select ‘Number’ under it
Click "OK" button
Make Decimal places to 0 and click on the checkbox to activate “Use 1000 separator’
Select the cell range B3:FIL
Press right mouse button and select ‘Format Cells” |
mfolals|>
(¥) From column and pie charts, what is most suitable to compare the values across the four
categories (B3:E9) over the period 2014 ~20207
(vi) Assume that on a different spreadsheet the cell B4 contains the formula =$B3+B2, If this]
formula is copied to cell C5, write down the formula that would appear in cell CS.
iam (012023(2024)/80/E-1, IL 9
. Following are the partially shown relational database tables that are used to store information about |
students, courses and course enrolment in a university,
STUDENT
Student id First_name Last_name
‘$1000 Perera
1001 Selvam
1002 —__ Shane Almeida
$1003 Moshin ‘Ahmed
COURSE,
Course.id Course_name Credits Department
200 Programming 4 Computer Scienee
C201 Organic Chemistry 3 Chemistry
202 English Literature 3 English
203 Molecular Biology 4 Biology
C204 ‘Web Development 3 Computer Science
ENROLMENT
‘Student id Course id Enrolment_date
1001 200 05-01-2028
1002 €203 ‘o4-01-2024
‘1001 C204 05-01-2024
$1003 C202 06-01-2024
(@ (@) Write down the primary key of ENROLMENT table.
(®) Write down the foreign key(s) of ENROLMENT table.
Gi) Which tables need to be updated to accommodate the following?
(a) the Computer Science Department introducing a new course named Cyber Security
(6) a new student joining the University and enrolling in the Organic Chemistry course
(ii) The Chemistry Department introduces a new course named Inorganic Chemistry (CourselD:
(C228) having 3 credits. Saman Perera enrolls in that course on 08-01-2024 and Moshin Ahmed|
enrolls in it on 09-01-2024. Write down the new records to be added to the relevant tables|
for the above change.
Note: Use only the sable name —> (field! content, field2 content, ..) format for each new
record.
Eg., STUDENT —> ($1000, Saman, Perera)
(iv) It is required to show the Course_ids of all courses enrolled by the student S1001. The course
‘name also needs to be shown. Which tables need to be joined for this. purpose?
(¥) It is decided to add the name and the phone number of the teacher teaching each course to}
the new fields Teacher_name and ‘Teacher_phone respectively. If a teacher could be assigned|
to teach several courses, recommend the most suitable table addition/change for this purpose,
Thee page ten Ld, The administration of a school decides to calculate the body mass index (BMI) of each student]
to find the ‘underweight’, ‘normal", ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ students,
‘The BMI of a person weighing w kilograms and having a height of hr metres i
the following formula:
calculated using
BML = w/t
The BMI of a person weighing 90 kg and 2m tall = 90/2? = 90/4 = 22.5
‘Then the person's weight status is found according to the following table:
BMI Weight status
BMI < 185 Underweight
18.5 <= BMI < 25.0 Normal
25.0 <= BMI <= 299 Overweight
BMI > 29.9 Obese
‘The school administration wants a program to find the weight status of all the 400 students in|
the school. In this program, for each student, the name, grade, weight in kilograms and height in
metres should be taken as inputs. Then the student's BMI should be computed. Finally, the name,
grade, the BMI and weight status (underweight, normal, overweight or obese) of the student should
be printed.
‘A pseudocode skeleton that aids in writing this program is given below. Write down the suitable
replacements for the blanks in it labelled from A to G.
Note: The replacement to one of the blanks speci
i tiple lines, Cont 1
requires multiple lines. cae Spies
Gel Bon name, grade, weigh,
C..weight / height*
OUTPUT name, grate, br
we. DAME S185
OUTPUT “Undcewetgh
ese
Se oer src. 39.9 We cEMSE* M228.
“ov : SUTwUT Nomar
Ourpas! overnetgn’ ‘ss
eu oF
Culpar ‘obese? coon
or
Enp Ff
ENDWiHILE
EXD
16. (i) Match the descriptions labelled P to § with the correct terms from the list given and write
the relevant term against each label using the label —> term format.
Label Description
‘A protocol for electronic mail transmission
‘A protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Intemet
‘A unique identifier for a device on the Internet
‘The address of a specific web page
List: (DNS, email address, HTTTP, IP address, SMTP, URL}
alzlol~.
(ii) Choosing from the examples given in the list, write down the label of the suitable example
for each of the items numbered from 1 to 6 using the number —> label format.
1— protocol 2-1 Address. 3 Email Address 4~ Domain Name 5 ~ URL
6 —An operating system
List: {A — 192.168.1.1, B — hups://www.example.com, C — Java, D — [email protected],
E — SaaS, F — TCPAP, G — xyz.example.com, H — Ubuntu)
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(iii) The HTML. source of the web page shown in Figure 1 is given in Figure 2 with certain
tags labelled @ to .
Renewable Energy for Sri Lanka
Ronewable energy sources are essential for sustainable development. Srt Lanka will
benefit immensely by investing in It.
Types of Renewable Energy
roy
+ Hydroelectric power
+ Biomass energy
‘Some challenges and solutions for renewabl
(Subsidies and providing incentives
le energy production Providing energy storage solutions _|
infrastructure needs Investment In national grid upgrades
[Environmental impacts [Sustainable site selection
Figure 1: Web page
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Renewable Energy for Sri Lankaghi>d@>
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t>-<@>Challengei@> Solution @>
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