Information Technology

Test #1A – 2013

Grade 11
Duration: 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 about
to answer and decide which is the best.

3. On the question paper, circle the letter that corresponds with the answer of your choice.

4. Fill in the required information on the lines below:

Name: ________________________________________________________

Teacher: ______________________________________________________

Date: __________________________________

Group: ________________

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

June 2010 (Paper 01)

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1. Which of the following devices is used to 6. Identify the list that is arranged starting from the
perform input into the computer? BEST to WORST print quality.

a) Monitor a) Laser, dot matrix, inkjet

b) Mouse. b) Inkjet, don matrix, laser
c) External hard drive c) Laser, inkjet, dot matrix.
d) USB flash drive d) Dot matrix, inkjet, laser

2. Which of the following is NOT a part of a 7. Which of the following is NOT an audio output
diskette? device?

a) Track a) Microphone.
b) Sector b) Earphone
c) Cylinder. c) Headphone
d) Cluster d) Speakers

3. A diskette is divided into a number of concentric 8. The one’s complement of 01010011 is

circles called
a) 11010011
a) sectors b) 01011111
b) cylinders c) 10101100.
c) tracks. d) 11111111
d) clusters
9. In modern personal computer, the CPU speed is
4. Which of the following devices is NOT used in measured in
point of sales terminals?
a) Nanoseconds
a) Printer b) Milliseconds
b) Plotter. c) MHz
c) Bar code reader d) GHz.
d) Electronic register
10. The storage capacity of a floppy disk is
5. Resolution determines the clarity of the image
displayed on a monitor. The term resolution a) 1.44MB.
refers to the number of pixels b) 1.44GB
c) 1440KB
a) present horizontal on the screen d) 1440MB
b) present vertically on the screen
c) present in a unit area of the screen. 11. The process of preparing a floppy disk to store
d) that makes up the colour data from a computer is called

a) deleting
b) easing
c) formatting.
d) archiving

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12. An example of a point and draw device is a 18. A new employee at a financial company has been
asked to set a password on her computer. She has
a) keyboard tried setting the password on several occasions
b) joystick but gets an error message which says “password
c) mouse. not effective”. The problem can be corrected by
d) scanner entering a password that is

13. An application in which scanners are commonly a) made up of several numbers

used is b) a relative’s name
c) composed of at least six upper case
a) publishing characters
b) billing d) a mixture of mixed case and alphanumeric
c) printing report characters.
d) cheque processing.
19. Transferring data from a remote computer to
14. Which of the following does NOT provide serial your computer is referred to as
access?
a) upload
a) Reel to reel tape b) browsing
b) Microfilm c) downloading.
c) Microfiche d) data mining
d) Cartridge tape
20. Scrambling of messages at the sending end and
15. Which of the following provides transmission of unscrambling them at the receiving end is called
data in BOTH directions at the SAME time?
a) espionage
a) Half Duplex b) encryption.
b) Full Duplex. c) coding
c) Null Duplex d) eavesdropping
d) Simplex
21. The acronym ‘HTTP’ stands for
16. In the URL http://www.shoes.com, ‘shoes.com’
stands for the a) Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
b) Hyper Text Transmission Protocol
a) extension c) Higher Text Transmission Protocol
b) company name d) Higher Text Transfer Protocol
c) domain name.
d) internet company 22. E-mail is the transmission of message and files
via computer network. E-mail is short for
17. Google is an example of
a) Encrypted mail
a) the Internet Explorer b) Emerging mail
b) a Web browser c) Entertainment mail
c) a search engine. d) Electronic mail.
d) the World Wide Web

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Item 23 refers to the icon below 26. Which of the following statements is true of a
transaction file?

a) It is the most complete and up-to-date file

b) It is used as a back-up copy
c) It is used for real-time processing
d) It is used to update the master file.
23. In an e-mail program the icon above is used to
27. Which type of processing system will use
a) send a file sequential file organization?
b) forward a file
c) create a file a) Real-time processing
d) attach a file. b) Batch processing
c) Transaction processing
24. Which of the following is NEITHER a validation d) Online processing
NOR a verification check?
28. Data verification is checking for
a) Storage media check.
b) Inconsistency check a) particular data types
c) Data-type check b) data in a specific range
d) Range check c) transcription errors
d) correct relationships between files.
25. Advantages of information processing include

a) retraining of staff
b) less human intervention.
c) increase the amount of equipment needed
d) reduction of face-to-face interaction

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Items 29 – 30 refer to the document below which shows a water bill.

Section A
Account Number Meter Number Bill Date Account Number Bill Date
111222-3 2009/12/04
TOTAL DATE DUE
$25.41 2009/12/29

Mr. Tom Bill

21 Hill Top View
ST. MICHAEL

B. Post cheque to:

PO Box 1206 Bridgetown

29. Customers tear off Section A of the bill and 30. Which type of technology is the information
return the section and their payment to the shown as B in the document MOST likely printed
company. The document above is BEST in?
described as
a) OCR
a) an automated document b) OMR
b) a turnaround document. c) POS
c) a source document d) MICR.
d) transaction document
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31. Slide design in a presentation software is used to 32. Which of the following are uses of a typical
presentation software?
a) create a background for the slide
b) create your own design for the slide I. To enhance public speaking
c) create a layout for the slide II. To store records in a structural fashion
d) create a style for a slide III. To create graphs of sales
IV. To deliver lectures

a) I and II only
b) I and IV only.
c) 1, II and IV only
d) I, II, III and IV

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Items 33 – 34 refer to the diagram below which shows a section of the Standard Toolbar of a word
processing package.

1 2

33. The name of the icon labeled 1 is 34. The purpose of the icon labeled 2 is to

a) Undo. a) align text on the left and right margin

b) repeat b) increase the indentation of the selected
c) word wrap paragraph(s)
d) text alignment c) increase column in documents.
d) display the grid to select columns and rows
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Item 35 refers to the diagram shown below. 36. The term used to describe text in a spreadsheet
that is aligned towards left by default is

a) value formulate
b) headings
c) labels.
d) values

37. Which of the following is the default justification

of numbers in spreadsheets?

a) Left
b) Full
c) Center
d) Right.

38. When a cell from a spreadsheet is absolute

referenced,

a) its value become constant

35. The diagram above is called the b) its cell address becomes constant.
c) its label becomes constant
a) page setup dialog box. d) its cell value changes automatically
b) paragraph dialog box
c) clipboard task plane
d) format dialog box

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39. Spreadsheet formulae use 44. The object that is used to produce a list of records
that meet a particular criterion is a
a) values, labels or cell addresses
b) values, mathematical operators or cell a) form
addresses. b) table
c) labels or cell addresses c) module
d) values or cell addresses d) query.

40. Which of the following is NOT involved in 45. In a relational database, tables are also called
extraction or filtering of records in spreadsheet?
a) tuples
a) Values range. b) files
b) Criteria range c) relations
c) List range d) entity.
d) Copy to range
46. Consider the following algorithm
41. Which of the following characteristics must two
database tables have in order for them to be A=7
linked? B=9
A=B–A
a) At least on common attribute name. B=A+B
b) Composite keys Write A, B
c) At least two tuples in the table
d) The same data in all tuples The output of this algorithm is

42. The term used to describe an attribute that can a) 2, 9

function like a primary key is a b) 2, 11.
c) 7, 9
a) candidate key d) 7, 11
b) secondary key.
c) foreign key 47. Consider the following algorithm
d) composite key
Sum ← 0
43. Which of the following is/are true of secondary Read a, b
keys? Sum ← a + b
Write Sum
I. They are used strictly for data retrieval
purposes. In the above algorithm, ‘sum ← 0’ represents
II. They are always in text form.
III. They do not contain null values. a) a declaration
IV. They do the same function as a foreign key b) a computation
c) an initialization.
a) 1 only d) an assignment
b) II and III only
c) III and IV only.
d) I, II, III and IV

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48. In the programming language Pascal, which of 52. Which of the following are true about the use of
the following is NOT a standard data type? indentation in programming?

a) Floating point. I. To make the layout of the code attractive

b) Char II. For compiler/interpreter to identify errors
c) Boolean easily
d) Integer III. For easy understanding of the order of code
IV. For easy correction of syntax errors
49. Which of the following structures is most
commonly used to implement a post-test loop in a) I, II and III only
Pascal? b) I, III and IV only.
c) II, III and IV only
a) For – do d) I, II, III and IV
b) While – do
c) If – then 53. Which of the following is NOT a third-
d) Repeat – until generation language?

50. Which of the following statements would be a) Assembly.

placed in the flowchart box shown below? b) COBOL
c) C
a) Read A d) PASCAL
b) A > 25
c) Count ← count + 1 54. The Pascal code var x, y would generate an error.
d) Output C The term used to describe this type of error is

51. The purpose of comments in program code is to a) run time error

b) execution error
I. allow persons who read it to follow the c) logical error
processes d) syntax error.
II. know the purpose of the program
III. generate code

a) I and II only.
b) I and III only
c) II and III only
d) I, II and III

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Item 55 refers to the following pseudocode 58. Which of the following symbols is used to
perform assignments in the programming
Read A, B language Pascal?
If A < 2
C←2 a) =
Else b) ←
C←6 c) := .
Endif d) ==
D←C*B+2
Write D 59. The variable total is assigned the value 12.
Which output shows the CORRECT display
55. What is printed by the pseudocode if the input when the Pascal code writeln(‘total = ’); is
values are 5 and 2 respectively? executed?

a) 6 a) total =
b) 12 b) 12
c) 14. c) total = 12
d) 24 d) ‘total = ’

56. A compiler is software that converts the 60. Which of the following identifiers is a valid
variable name?
a) source code to assembly code
b) source code to machine code. a) Begin
c) program to output b) iCount
d) program to object code one instructions at a c) Num-1
time d) 5Sum

57. The result of the expression 3 mod 4 is

a) 0
b) 1.
c) 2
d) 4

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