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Section A [20 marks]

Answer all the questions on OTAS answer sheet provided.

1. You are searching for a file which is on a USB drive.

What should be selected in the box marked X?

A Desktop
B Documents
C Removable Media
D Start Menu

2. The properties of a clip art file are shown.

Which property shows the storage space required for the file?

A Type
B Size
C Name
D Dimensions

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3. This screen shows spreadsheet files of varying sizes.

Which is the smallest file?

A Balance Sheet
B Budget
C Expense Statement
D Sales

4. You connect a new USB device to your computer. The light on the USB device comes on but
the computer does not recognise the new device.

What probably needs to be done to allow the computer to recognise the device?

A Close the folder which contains the device drivers

B Connect the device to the hard drive
C Install the device drivers
D Remove the device from the system

5. You enter the following options in a print dialogue box.

In what order will the pages be printed?

A 5 copies of page 1, followed by 5 copies of page 2
B 5 copies of pages 1 to 2, double-sided
C 5 copies of page 2, followed by 5 copies of page 1
D Page 1, then page 2, repeated 5 times

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6. This is a view of some folders and a file.

Which path describes the location of the file ‘Sam.jpg’?

A Documents > Celebrations > Birthdays > Sam.jpg

B Documents > Photos > Celebrations > Birthdays > Sam.jpg
C Photos > Birthdays > Sam.jpg
D Photos > Family > Birthdays > Sam.jpg

7. Files have been moved to the Trash Bin. The Trash Bin has not been emptied.
Which of the following is true of these files?

A They can be retrieved and then saved in a new location.

B They are no longer accessible.
C They must be renamed before being used.
D Their names are displayed in a light grey font.

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8. A student typed this text.

What will happen if the student clicks and drags the selected word in position S to the
position marked T?

A It will only appear in position T.

B It will only appear in position S.
C It will appear twice in position T.
D It will appear in both positions S and T.

9. You created and saved a word-processed document at home but when you printed it at
school the font looked different.

What is the most likely reason for this?

A The font you used at home was not on the school computer.
B Your file became corrupted.
C You saved your file in the wrong format.
D You saved your file with the wrong name.

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10. This dialogue box shows the options selected for a column layout.

Which of these describes the layout?

A All columns are equal in width and the spaces between columns are unequal.
B Columns are equal and each space is narrower than the one before it.
C The last two columns are equal and the spaces between columns are equal.
D The spacing is unequal and each column is narrower than the one before it.

11. This table has been selected.

What will happen when you click the icon labelled X?

A All the data in the table will be centred.

B Only data in the first column will be centred.
C Only data in the last column will be centred.
D The table will move across to the centre of the page.

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12. You are going to use the Find and Replace facility to find ‘spore’ and replace it with
‘Singapore’.

Which search option should you choose?

A Find whole words only

B Find all word forms (English)
C Match case
D Use wildcards

13. In your text, ‘Tobruk’ is spelt correctly but is picked up in the Spell Checker as an error.

Which option should you select in the Spelling and Grammar dialogue box to stop ‘Tobruk’
showing as an error in the future?

A 1
B 2
C 3
D 4

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14. A diagram like this helps to plan a multimedia presentation.

What is this diagram?

A A slideboard
B A slide chart
C A slideshow
D A storyboard

15. Which process was used to change Image 1 to Image 2?

A Crop
B Flip Horizontal
C Skew
D Stretch

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16. You have been watching this video for 3 minutes.

For approximately how long would the full video run?

A 1 minute
B 2 minutes
C 3 minutes
D 4 minutes

17. What has been done to Image 1 to produce Image 2?

A Flip Horizontal
B Flip Vertical
C Rotate Left 90°
D Rotate Right 90°

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18. The text box containing the words ‘Broken Hill’ has been changed from that in Image 1 to
that in Image2.

How were these changes made?

A Select the text box and set to Invert.

B Select the text box and set to Transparent.
C Select the text in the box and set font colour to white.
D Select the text box, set no fill and no line and font colour white.

19. While you were looking at a web page, this pop-up appeared.

What should you do to avoid being re-directed to an advertisement?

A Click OK.
B Click See Prizes.
C Close the pop-up.
D Enter your Details.

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20. A chart is being produced from the temperature data in the spreadsheet.

What should be entered into the Value (Y) axis box?

A A5:A11
B Daily Readings
C Temperature °C
D Time

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Section B [30 marks]

Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.

21. (a) Look at the block diagram below.

Draw the arrows to show the flow of data in a computer system.

[2]

(b) What do the letters CPU stand for?

Fill in the spaces below.

C _________________ P _____________________ Unit [2]

(c) Put the following terms in order starting with the smallest.
Kilobyte Byte Gigabyte Megabyte Terabyte

1. _____________________

2. _____________________

3. _____________________

4. Gigabyte

5. _____________________ [2]

22. (a) What does the term RAM stand for?

Fill in the spaces below.

R _________________ A __________________ Memory [2]

(b) Computer memory is made up of RAM and ROM.

State which one loses data when the computer is switched off.

_________________________ [1]

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23. (a) Which two sentences below correctly describe features of a DVD-ROM?

Tick ( √ ) two boxes only.

A DVD-ROM:

(i) stands for Digital Versatile Disk-Read Only Memory

(ii) has less storage space than a CD-ROM

(iii) can store more multimedia material than a CD-ROM

(iv) does not need a laser to read the data [2]

(b) A computer system is made up of input devices, backing storage and output
devices.

Use the words below to complete the following table with suitable input devices,
backing storage and output devices.

joystick monitor hard drive mouse plotter cd-rom

Use each word only once.

Input Devices Backing Storage Output Devices

1 keyboard floppy disk printer

2
3 [3]

24. The PE Department at SQSS wish to enter an under 13 football team into the school football
competition.

The following notice was created for the PE noticeboard.

(a) (i) Which word has to be deleted? ___________________ [1]

(ii) Which word has to be amended? __________________ [1]

(iii) Which word has to be inserted? ___________________ [1]

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(b) The PE Teacher has changed the notice to look like the following:

State two formatting changes that have been made to the text.
__________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________ [2]

25. Fatimah has her own gardening business. She wishes to create some postcards to advertise
her company and starts by drawing the graphic below using a vector graphics package.

(a) She uses the above graphic to create a border on the postcard.

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Which graphic operations has she used to create the border?

Tick ( ) one box.

Scale and Rotate

Rotate and Zoom
Scale and Duplicate
Zoom and Scale [1]

(b) She types some text on the postcard.

She highlights the text and selects centre justification.

On the postcard below show how the text will look now.

[1]

(c) She wants to make the words “Good Quality” stand out on the postcard.

She highlights the text and changes it to look like this “Good Quality”.
State which word processing operation she selected.

__________________________________________________________________ [1]

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26. Michael is buying Bug Buster, an anti-virus program for his computer.
Bug Buster requires a computer system with the following specification.

Michael has two computer systems.

(a) State two reasons why Bug Buster will not run on computer system A.
1. _______________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
2. ________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________ [2]
(b) Michael carries out a scan of his computer using Bug Buster. It detects a file which
may contain a virus.

Using the operating system, state what action Michael could take to deal with this.

___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________ [1]

27. Wei Ming wants to create a website to advertise and sell products over the Internet.
(a) The website will be used for e-commerce.
Explain why it is important that sites for e-commerce are secure.

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ [1]
(b) How to ensure that sites for e-commerce are secure?

__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________ [1]
(c) State a software that he can use to create Web pages.
__________________________________________________________________ [1]

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28. Sarah types the data below into a spreadsheet.

(a) Write a formula to calculates the total cost of bread.

__________________________________________________________________ [1]
(b) Write a formula to calculates the total cost of the Bill (all the 5 items).

__________________________________________________________________ [1]

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