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ICT Practical Exam Tips

The document provides instructions for an examination. It details 6 steps to follow, including reading instructions carefully, saving files, printing, timing modules, and avoiding common mistakes. It also answers several common questions about criteria, calculations, reports, data types, screenshots, and dates. Students are advised to write their details on printouts and tick boxes as instructions are completed.

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ICT Practical Exam Tips

The document provides instructions for an examination. It details 6 steps to follow, including reading instructions carefully, saving files, printing, timing modules, and avoiding common mistakes. It also answers several common questions about criteria, calculations, reports, data types, screenshots, and dates. Students are advised to write their details on printouts and tick boxes as instructions are completed.

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Dear All, Please read the following:

1) Read all the instructions carefully in the paper. 2) Create a folder in the D drive of your computer and save all the files in it. 3) Take print outs as and when asked in the paper. It is your choice, but recommended not to keep all printouts till the end of the examination. 4) Make sure that you time yourself for each module in the paper. 5) Avoid common mistakes in Word: Line spacing etc. and Practice all previous year commands of Access. Make sure you know the master slide and how to create charts with or without legends. 6) Some common doubts solution::

What would be the criteria for this booking Date was between 01/01/2009 and 31/01/2009 Answer: Between 01/01/2009 And 31/01/2009 Or, if you're mathematically inclined... >=01/01/2009 And <=31/01/2009 Or using wildcards... */01/2009 Wild card usage * = anything (from 0 characters to a bazillion) ? = any single character

So... P* means any text starting with P (followed by anything), e.g. P, PIG, POOP *T means any text ending with T, e.g. T, POT, HAT P*T means any text starting with P and ending in T, e.g. PAT, PICKET G??? means any 4 character text starting with G, e.g. GOAT, GROT ??? means any 3 character text, e.g. CAT, 1AG, 555, JET ???* means any text of 3 characters or more, e.g. HAT, HATE, HATRED */02/2012 means any date in Feb 2012/*] */*/2012 means any date in 2012 01/02/* means 1st Feb of any year Etc.

contains a new field called Delivered Price which is calculated at runtime. This field will calculate the Cost Price plus a delivery charge of 10% of the Cost Price step no 45 of may june 2011 paper 22 Solution: In a blank column in the query, add the following... Delivered Price: [Cost Price] * 1.1 Note: Multiplying by 1.1 adds 10% to the Cost Price value. Alternatively you could use this formula... Delivered Price: [Cost Price] + [Cost Price]*0.1 Please confirm that it is understood.

Produce a new report from all the data which: shows a summary of only the Country, Product and Stock fields performs a count of the number of Products for each Country calculates the sum of the number of items in Stock for each Country only reports where Products number more than 3

Solution: The question mentions 'for each Country' twice - this is the clue that you need to know that your summary needs to be grouped by Country... Add the Country field and select Group by in the Total row Add the Product field and select Count in the Total row Add the Stock field and select Sum in the Total row Then to select only the required records... In the Product field add the criteria >3

Specification for Labels specification for labels C2244 72mm*72mm number across: 2 OR The J series can also solve your purpose.

DATA TYPES You need to use long integers for values of 32767 or more... Numbers bigger than this won't fit inside a normal integer. But using a long integer for small values is fine. I would just use long integers for all integer values. Use either single or double for any decimal numbers... It doesn't matter which. You would only need to worry about picking the correct one if you were storing hugely accurate numbers. I would just use double for all decimal numbers. whats the best size of screenshots for all in paper 2!!?? It depends what you're trying to show... But usually a full-screen screenshot is best, pasted into Word. I recommend that students set their pages to landscape and have the screenshots as large as possible, one per page.

Create a report:

shows a summary of only the Staff and Sales fields performs a count of the number of sales made by each member of Staff calculates the sum of the Sales for each member of staff. Solution You need to add the Sales field twice....

Under the first Sales field, in the Totals row, choose COUNT for the summary Under the second Sales field, in the Totals row, choose SUM for the summary You don't need anything in the report footer - it's all done in the query

DATES and CURRENCY is taken care of so no import errors should be seen.

See to it that ALL your print outs are arranged properly and your candidate name , number and center number is PRINTED on all. Tick the boxes as you complete the instruction in the question paper. Write the date in the box provided in the paper. ALL THE BEST my Bacchhas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love u all see you tomm.

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