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Information Technology

Test #1A 2013Grade 11Duration: 60 Minutes

Read the following instructions carefully.

1. This test is consists of 60 items. You will have 60 minutes to answer them.

2. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered a, b, c, d. Read each item you are aboutto answer and decide which is the best.

. !n the "uestion #a#er, circle the letter that corres#onds with the answer of your choice.

$. %ill in the re"uired information on the lines below&

Name: ________________________________________________________

Teacher: ______________________________________________________

Date: __________________________________

Group: ________________

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'hich of the following devices is used to #erformin#ut into the com#uter(

a) *onitor b) *ousec) E+ternal hard drived) - flash drive

1. 'hich of the following is /!T a #art of adis ette(

a) Trac b) -ector c) ylinder d) luster

2. dis ette is divided into a number of concentriccircles called

a) sectors b) cylindersc) trac sd) clusters

. 'hich of the following devices is /!T used in #oint of sales terminals(

a) 3rinter b) 3lotter c) ar code reader

d) Electronic register

$. Resolution determines the clarity of the imagedis#layed on a monitor. The term resolutionrefers to the number of #i+els

a) #resent hori4ontal on the screen b) #resent vertically on the screenc) #resent in a unit area of the screend) that ma es u# the colour

5. dentify the list that is arranged starting from theE-T to '!R-T #rint "uality.

a) 7aser, dot matri+, in 8et b) n 8et, don matri+, laser c) 7aser, in 8et, dot matri+

d) 9ot matri+, in 8et, laser

6. 'hich of the following is /!T an audio out#utdevice(

a) *icro#hone b) Ear#honec) :ead#honed) -#ea ers

;. The one:4

?. The storage ca#acity of a flo##y dis is

a) 1.$$* b) 1.$$>c) 1$$0@d) 1$$0*

10. The #rocess of #re#aring a flo##y dis to storedata from a com#uter is called

a) deleting b) easingc) formattingd) archiving

11. n e+am#le of a #oint and draw device is a

a) eyboard b) 8oysticc) moused) scanner

12. n a##lication in which scanners are commonlyused is

a) #ublishing

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b) billingc) #rinting re#ortd) che"ue #rocessing

1 . 'hich of the following does /!T #rovide serialaccess(

a) Reel to reel ta#e b) *icrofilmc) *icrofiched) artridge ta#e

1$. 'hich of the following #rovides transmission ofdata in !T: directions at the - *E time(

a) :alf 9u#le+ b) %ull 9u#le+c) /ull 9u#le+d) -im#le+

15. n the R7 htt#&AAwww.shoes.com, Bshoes.comoogle is an e+am#le of

a) the nternet E+#lorer b) a 'eb browser c) a search engined) the 'orld 'ide 'eb

1;. new em#loyee at a financial com#any has beenas ed to set a #assword on her com#uter. -he hastried setting the #assword on several occasions

but gets an error message which says C#asswordnot effectiveD. The #roblem can be corrected byentering a #assword that is

a) made u# of several numbers b) a relative

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2$. dvantages of information #rocessing include

a) retraining of staff b) less human interventionc) increase the amount of e"ui#ment neededd) reduction of face to face interaction

25. 'hich of the following statements is true of atransaction file(

a) t is the most com#lete and u# to date file b) t is used as a bac u# co#yc) t is used for real time #rocessingd) t is used to u#date the master file

26. 'hich ty#e of #rocessing system will usese"uential file organi4ation(

a) Real time #rocessing b) atch #rocessingc) Transaction #rocessingd) !nline #rocessing

2;. 9ata verification is chec ing for

a) #articular data ty#es b) data in a s#ecific rangec) transcri#tion errorsd) correct relationshi#s between files


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Items 2 ! 3" refer to the document below which shows a water bill.

-ection ccount /umber *eter /umber ill 9ate ccount /umber ill 9ate

111222 200?A12A0$T!T 7 9 TE 9 E

F25.$1 200?A12A2?

*r. Tom ill21 :ill To# Giew-T. * : E7

. 3ost che"ue to&

3! o+ 1206 ridgetown

2=. ustomers tear off -ection of the bill and

return the section and their #ayment to thecom#any. The document above is E-Tdescribed as

a) an automated document b) a turnaround documentc) a source documentd) transaction document

2?. 'hich ty#e of technology is the information

shown as in the document *!-T li ely #rintedin(

a) ! R b) !*R c) 3!-d) * R

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0. -lide design in a #resentation software is used to

a) create a bac ground for the slide b) create your own design for the slidec) create a layout for the slided) create a style for a slide

1. 'hich of the following are uses of a ty#ical #resentation software(

. To enhance #ublic s#ea ing. To store records in a structural fashion

. To create gra#hs of salesG. To deliver lectures

a) and only b) and G onlyc) 1, and G onlyd) , , and G


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Items 33 ! 3# refer to the diagram below which shows a section of the -tandard Toolbar of a word #rocessing #ac age.

2. The name of the icon labeled 1 is

a) undo b) re#eatc) word wra#d) te+t alignment

. The #ur#ose of the icon labeled 2 is to

a) align te+t on the left and right margin b) increase the indentation of the selected

#aragra#hIs)c) increase column in documentsd) dis#lay the grid to select columns and rows

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Item 3$ refers to the diagram shown below.

$. The diagram above is called the

a) #age setu# dialog bo+ b) #aragra#h dialog bo+c) cli#board tas #laned) format dialog bo+

5. The term used to describe te+t in a s#readsheetthat is aligned towards left by default is

a) value formulate b) headingsc) labelsd) values

6. 'hich of the following is the default 8ustificationof numbers in s#readsheets(

a) 7eft b) %ullc) enter d) Right

;. 'hen a cell from a s#readsheet is absolutereferenced,

a) its value become constant b) its cell address becomes constantc) its label becomes constantd) its cell value changes automatically

=. -#readsheet formulae use

a) values, labels or cell addresses b) values, mathematical o#erators or cell

addressesc) labels or cell addressesd) values or cell addresses


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?. 'hich of the following is /!T involved ine+traction or filtering of records in s#readsheet(

a) Galues range b) riteria rangec) 7ist ranged) o#y to range

$0. 'hich of the following characteristics must twodatabase tables have in order for them to belin ed(

a) t least on common attribute name b) om#osite eysc) t least two tu#les in the tabled) The same data in all tu#les

$1. The term used to describe an attribute that can

function li e a #rimary ey is a

a) candidate ey b) secondary eyc) foreign eyd) com#osite ey

$2. 'hich of the following isAare true of secondaryeys(

. They are used strictly for data retrieval #ur#oses.

. They are always in te+t form.. They do not contain null values.

G. They do the same function as a foreign ey

a) 1 only b) and onlyc) and G onlyd) , , and G

$ . The ob8ect that is used to #roduce a list of recordsthat meet a #articular criterion is a

a) form b) tablec) moduled) "uery

$$. n a relational database, tables are also called

a) tu#les b) filesc) relations

d) entity

$5. onsider the following algorithm

J ; J ? J K J L

'rite ,

The out#ut of this algorithm is

a) 2, ? b) 2, 11c) ;, ?d) ;, 11

$6. onsider the following algorithm

-um M 0Read a, b-um M a L b'rite -um

n the above algorithm, Bsum M 0< re#resents

a) a declaration b) a com#utationc) an initiali4ationd) an assignment

$;. n the #rogramming language 3ascal, which ofthe following is /!T a standard data ty#e(

a) %loating #oint b) har c) ooleand) nteger

$=. 'hich of the following structures is mostcommonly used to im#lement a #ost test loo# in3ascal(

a) %or K do b) 'hile K doc) f K thend) Re#eat K until

$?. 'hich of the following statements would be #laced in the flowchart bo+ shown below(


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a) Read b) N 25c) ount M count L 1d) !ut#ut

50. The #ur#ose of comments in #rogram code is to

. allow #ersons who read it to follow the #rocesses

. now the #ur#ose of the #rogram. generate code

a) and only b) and onlyc) and onlyd) , and

51. 'hich of the following are true about the use ofindentation in #rogramming(

. To ma e the layout of the code attractive. %or com#ilerAinter#reter to identify errors

easily. %or easy understanding of the order of code

G. %or easy correction of synta+ errors

a) , and only b) , and G onlyc) , and G onlyd) , , and G

52. 'hich of the following is /!T a third generation

language(

a) ssembly b) ! !7c)d) 3 - 7

5 . The 3ascal code var x, y would generate an error.The term used to describe this ty#e of error is

a) run time error b) e+ecution error c) logical error d) synta+ error


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Item $$ refers to the following #seudocode

Read , f O 2

M 2Else

M 6Endif 9 M P L 2'rite 9

5$. 'hat is #rinted by the #seudocode if the in#utvalues are 5 and 2 res#ectively(

a) 6 b) 12c) 1$d) 2$

55. com#iler is software that converts the

a) source code to assembly code b) source code to machine codec) #rogram to out#utd) #rogram to ob8ect code one instructions at a

time

56. The result of the e+#ression 3 mod 4 is

a) 0 b) 1

c) 2d) $

5;. 'hich of the following symbols is used to #erform assignments in the #rogramminglanguage 3ascal(

a) J b) Mc) &J

d) J J

5=. The variable total is assigned the value 12.'hich out#ut shows the !RRE T dis#laywhen the 3ascal code writelnIBtotal J

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