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FORM TP 2022088 MAY/JUNE 2022

CARIBBEAN E XAM I NAT I O N S COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE®

EXAMINATION

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Paper 02 – General Proficiency

2 hours

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of FOUR questions. Answer ALL questions.

2. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this booklet.

3. Do NOT write in the margins.

4. If you need to rewrite any answer and there is not enough space to do so on
the original page, you must use the extra lined page(s) provided at the back of
this booklet. Remember to draw a line through your original answer.

5. If you use the extra page(s) you MUST write the question number clearly
in the box provided at the top of the extra page(s) and, where relevant,
include the question part beside the answer.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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Answer ALL questions.

1. (a) Direct data entry devices can transfer data directly from a document into a computer
system.

(i) Circle TWO direct data entry devices from the following list of input devices.

Barcode reader Light pen Optical mark reader

Joystick Touchscreen
(2 marks)

(ii) Name an application in which any ONE of the devices circled in (a) (i) is used and
describe the type of data that is captured with that device.
barcode - grocery store data - product number
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OMR - multiple choice exam data - student answers
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(2 marks)

(b) Turnaround documents are popular with automated methods of data entry.

(i) Describe what is meant by a turnaround document.

Half of the document is pre-printed by the computer and the other half is
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filled out by the human
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(2 marks)

(ii) Explain how data is captured from a turnaround document.

optical merk reader to scan the choices
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optical character reader to interpret the letters written
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(c) Determine the number of 5 MB documents that could fit on a 16 GB flash drive.
(Show all working.)
1GB = 1024 mb x 16 / 5
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(2 marks)

(d) Consider the following paragraph.

A printer is an output device on a computer system used to print hard copy output.
Printers fall into two categories: impact and non-impact.

Non-impact printers spray ink or toner powder and the characters are fixed onto the
paper by heating. Examples of non-impact printers are inkjet printers, laser printers
and thermal printers.

Impact printers strike the paper when printing. The most popular impact printer is a
dot-matrix printer. Dot-matrix printers print multiple copies using carbon paper.

(i) State the steps (in the correct order) required to find the number of words in the
paragraph above, using a word processing program.

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hover the cursor over the first letter of the paragraph until the cursor changes

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to an (the letter I) shape, highlight the whole paragraph down to carbon paper

choose the count words option and then check the word count
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(2 marks)

(ii) List the steps (in the correct order) required to conduct a spell-check on the
paragraph above, using a word processing program.
Go to the review tab
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click the spelling and grammer option on the left side of the toolbar
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click spell check

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(e) The following diagram illustrates the dialogue box obtained when using the Find and
Replace editing feature in a word processing program, to replace all occurrences of the
word “print” with the word “produceˮ in the paragraph in (d) on page 5.

(i) Briefly explain why it would be safer to use the Replace option rather than the
Replace All option in the dialogue box above.

the replace option would only replace in the selected paragraph while the replace
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all option would replace the whole document
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(2 marks)

(ii) Outline the steps needed to replace all occurrences of the word “print” with the
word “produce” using the Replace All option in the dialogue box above.

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in the home tab click on the replace option on the right side of the tool bar

enter the work print in the section where it says find what
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enter the word procedure in the section where it says replace
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click the replace all option
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(3 marks)

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2. Sharon recently had a home network built with both wired and wireless capability to facilitate her
new home-based business initiative.

(a) State the location on the network where EACH of the following hardware devices could
be found AND describe the function of EACH device.

Network interface card

in the desktop or laptop
Location: ................................................................................................................................
enables wired network connectivity
Function: ................................................................................................................................

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Wireless network adaptor

inside wireless enables devices

Location: ................................................................................................................................

Function: ................................................................................................................................
connects devices to wirenell networks

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Modem
between the internet service provider and the router
Location: ................................................................................................................................
converts analog signals to digital signals
Function: ................................................................................................................................

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Router

Location: ................................................................................................................................
located after the modem and before the switch
direct packets to the appropriate device on the network
Function: ................................................................................................................................

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(b) The wireless devices were accessing the Internet but Sharon’s desktop computer was
unable to access the Internet. Suggest TWO instructions that could be given to Sharon to
help her to troubleshoot the problem.

restart the modem and the router

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she should check the connection to the network interface card and ensure it is connected
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properly
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(2 marks)

(c) Examine the following chart created from data in a spreadsheet.

(i) List the steps (in the correct order) required to create the chart from data in a
spreadsheet.

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highlite the range if cells that obtains the data you wish to put into a chart
go to the inserts tab
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choose insert chart option
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insert the chart
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(ii) State ONE other type of chart which is appropriate to represent the data in the
spreadsheet and state how it differs from the one on page 8.

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you could use a bar chart - bar charts display data using horizontal bars making

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easier to compare the data

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(2 marks)

(iii) Name ONE type of chart other than those mentioned in (c) (i) and (ii) and describe
when it is BEST used.
Pie chart. this is used to show precentage of different categories within a whole
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(iv) Sharon used the following spreadsheet to create the chart displayed on page 8.

A B C D E F G H
1 Books Sold for Week 2
2 Type of Book Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Total
3 Novels 50 75 25 25 50 100 325
4 Magazines 100 100 50 25 75 50 375
5 Textbooks 50 50 50 25 75 100 350
6 Cookbooks 100 50 75 25 50 50 350
7 Comics 50 25 50 25 100 100 350
8 TOTAL 300 250 125 350 400 1775

Write the formula/function to be inserted in Cell B8, to calculate the total number
of books sold on Monday.

=sum (B3:B7)
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(2 marks)

Total 20 marks

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3. (a) Complete the table below by inserting the MOST appropriate web technology concepts
from the following list.

Web browser Hypertext markup language Hypertext transfer protocol

Hyperlink Web server File transfer protocol Uniform resource locator

Web Technology Concept Description

Connects webpages to other webpages
hyperlink

Stores, processes and delivers webpages to client devices

web server on request

Facilitates communication with client devices for the

http delivery of webpages

Software application that allows client devices to access

web browser resources and websites from the Internet

Text-based application used to create web pages for

display on the client devices
html

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Consider the following database with two database tables named STUDENTS and
SPORTS.

STUDENTS
ID FirstName LastName Birthdate Gender Married Phone SportNo
1 Roy CLARKE 1/2/1997 M Yes 688-4444 010
2 Jamila ALI 3/22/1982 F No 720-9123 020
3 Tyson LENNY 3/23/1996 M Yes 630-1234 040
4 Ikelia DRAKES 7/4/1978 F No 456-7890 050
5 Suresh BAPTISTE 5/23/1999 M No 456-6676 030
6 Janet BROWN 6/18/2001 F Yes 620-0190 050
7 Smith JONES 12/20/2002 M Yes 640-2823 020
8 Michael JONES 6/18/1999 M Yes 640-4929 080
10 Daniella SINGH 6/18/2008 F No 640-9989 090
11 Bridget NICHOLAS 6/18/2008 F No 637-4442 100
14 Brian JOSEPH 3/3/2001 M Yes 638-2223 020

SPORTS
SportNo SportName
010 Cricket
020 Football
030 Basketball
040 Lawn tennis
050 Badminton

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(b) The database tables STUDENTS and SPORTS can be joined in a one-to-many
relationship to ensure that data in the two tables remain as accurate as possible.

(i) State the feature that is used to establish and maintain the accuracy of data be-
tween the two database tables.
referential integrity
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(1 mark)

(ii) State why it is necessary to maintain the accuracy of data between the two database
tables.
so that queries would return the correct results all the time
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(1 mark)

(iii)
Outline how the one-to-many relationship is formed between the two database
tables.
the relationship between the two tables if made by the sport no in the sport
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table and the sport no in the student's table
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(2 marks)

(c) Create a query by completing the following query design view window to extract

• the fields ID, FirstName, LastName and Phone from the STUDENTS table
• the field SportName from the SPORTS table, for all married students who play
football.

Field ID FirstName LastName Married Phone SportNo SportName

Table STUDENT STUDENT STUDENT STUDENT STUDENT SPORTS SPORTS
Sort
Show
Criteria Yes Football
OR

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(d) State the record IDs of the record(s) that would be extracted when the query designed in
(c) is executed.
7 and 14
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(2 marks)

(e) (i) There are four steps in implementing a program. List THREE of these steps.
source code, compile, object code, link, execute
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use compile, liking and executing

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(3 marks)

(ii) Describe what is involved in any TWO of the steps listed in (e) (i).
maintaining - making sure the program still works as well as making improvements to it
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linking
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compiling is translating the source code to object code so the computer can understand
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(f) Complete the following pseudocode by writing a nested if-then-else statement to produce
the following.

• If Team A scores more goals than Team B, the algorithm should output Team A is the
winner.
• If Team B scores more goals than Team A, then the algorithm should output Team B
is the winner.
• Otherwise, the program should output game drawn.

START

Write “Enter the name and number of goals scored by Team A”

Read Team_A, goals_A
Write “Enter the name and number of goals scored by Team B”
Read Team_B, goals_B
if (goal_A > goal_B) then
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print "team_A is the winner
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elif (goal_B > goal_A) than
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print ("Team_B is the willer
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else
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print ("game drawn")
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end if
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STOP
(5 marks)

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4. A credit union gives loans of $10 000 at a fixed monthly interest rate of one percent on the principal
amount. The monthly payment amount is a fixed $1000. The amount paid to the principal each
month is the monthly payment amount minus the interest paid for the month.

The pseudocode below will print a payment schedule showing the principal, the payment made
to the principal and the interest charged for each month once the principal is greater than zero.
The payment schedule will also print the total amount paid to the principal, the total amount of
interest paid and the number of payments made.

START
Line 1. Set Principal ← 10,000
Line 2. Set MonthlyPayment ← 1,000
Line 3. Set MonthlyInterest ← 0.01

Line 4. Write “Principal”, “Payment”, “Interest”

Line 5. WHILE Principal > 0 DO

Line 6. Set Interest ← Principal * MonthlyInterest
Line 7. Set Payment ← MonthlyPayment - Interest
Line 8. Set TotalInterest ← TotalInterest + Interest
Line 9. Set TotalPayment ← TotalPayment + Payment

Line 10. Write Principal, Payment, Interest

Line 11. Set NewPrincipal ← Principal - Payment

Line 12 Set Count ← Count + 1

Line 13. END WHILE

Line 14. Write TotalPayment, TotalInterest, Count

STOP

(a) Identify TWO variables which when added will always be equal to the monthly repayment
amount of $1000.
interest, payment
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(2 marks)

(b) (i)
The pseudocode has a logic error. Identify the line with the error and make the
necessary corrections.
new principal should just be principal
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(ii) Identify the stage in program implementation where the type of error stated in
(b) (i) will show up and state the consequences of the error.
in the compilation stage
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results in incurrect answer, output, printut for thr code
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(2 marks)

(c)
State the type of looping construct used in the pseudocode.
wguke loop
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(1 mark)

(d) Suggest ONE reason why the looping construct stated in (c) was used in the pseudocode.

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because it will keep going as long as the principas is not paif odd
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(2 marks)

(e) Explain ONE other named looping construct that could be used in the program.
for loop
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repeat untill the condition are meet
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(f)
Complete the following trace table by inserting the missing values for the variable in
EACH row representing the first THREE times the pseudocode loops.

Principal Payment MonthlyInterest

Loop 1 $ 10 000 ________________

900 ________________
100

Loop 2 ________________ ________________ ________________

Loop 3 $ 8 191 ________________ $ 81.91

(4 marks)

(g) The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an increase in connectivity and
online activities, for example, telecommuting, cyber-criminal activities and greater use of
cloud-based applications.

(i) Describe the concept of ‘telecommuting’ and state ONE reason why
telecommuting is so impactful.
tele commuting i working from the remote location but connecting to the office using
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tele communication

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(2 marks)

(ii) Describe the term ‘denial-of-service (DOS) attack’, giving ONE example.
when a server is swarmed with fake requestes so the real
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(iii) State ONE similarity and ONE difference between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
technologies.

Similarity ...............................................................................................................
both use radio waves
the distance the signal can travel
Difference ..............................................................................................................
(2 marks)

(iv) State TWO advantages and ONE disadvantage of buying software applications
stored in the cloud.

Advantages ............................................................................................................
access from multiple devives

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ypir work is saved automatically
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needs internet to work

Disadvantage .........................................................................................................

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(3 marks)

Total 25 marks

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