EDPM PAPER ONE 2016

1. Read the passage below and then answer the question which follows. 
                                                                                                          (a)
Mary, a high school student, needed to purchase an electronic device for storing and 
                                                                                                          (b)
processing data.  She was uncertain whether to purchase a small portable microcomputer 
                                                                                                 (c)
with a screen that closes over the keyboard or a device that has a screen on which the
user 
                                                                                                                            (d)
can write using a stylus. One major requirement was that it should have a high-capacity,
self-contained storage device.  

In the spaces below, indicate ONE word which may be used to replace EACH of the
underlined phrases
a) A computer
b) Handheld
c) Input device
d) Hard disk drive

2. Define the term ‘cloud storage’. 

Cloud storage- is a cloud computing model in which data is stored on remote servers
accessed from the internet, or "cloud." It is maintained.

(b) identify ONE portable storage medium. 

A storage medium may be internal to a computing device, such as a computer's hard
drive, or a removable device such as an external hard drive or universal serial bus
(USB) flash drive.

3. State ONE situation where EACH of the following features is used in a document. 

(a) Header-  Headers and footers are the top and bottom sections of the document respectively.
They are separate sections from the main document, and are often used to hold footnotes, page
numbers, titles, and other information
(1 mark) 

(b) footnotes only be used to provide content notes (such as providing brief, supplemental
information about the text or directing readers to additional information) and to denote copyright
permissions.
 4. Read the following passage carefully and then answer the questions which follow. 
 

 Jason had an assignment for school. The day before the assignment was due, he realized that he
had not done it. Jason knew his brother had done a similar assignment two years previously.
Jason found his brother's assignment, made a few minor adjustments and submitted it as his own.

(a) What is the term used to describe what Jason did?  Plagiarism

(b) List TWO guidelines that Jason should have followed to avoid this. 

  Understand the context. Do not copy–paste the text verbatim from the reference
paper.
 Identify what does and does not need to be cited.
 Manage your citations.
 Quote. Use quotes to indicate that the text has been taken from another paper

(2) Expand EACH of the following abbreviations. 

Abbreviative  Expansion 

1 Shd 

2 Wl  Sir had given us a handout with the abbreviation and expansion
for
3 a/c  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
4 bn
6. Carefully examine the diagram below and then answer the questions which follow

(a).  List the files shown in the diagram above in chronological order based on the metadata,
date 
Modified.

(b).  List FOUR types of metadata other than data modified.

Descriptive metadata describes a resource for purposes such as discovery

and identification. It can include elements such as title, abstract, author, and
keywords.

Structural metadata indicates how compound objects are put together, for

example, how pages are ordered to form chapters.

 Administrative metadata provides information to help manage a resource,

such as when and how it was created, file type and other technical
information, and who can access it. There are several subsets of
administrative data; two that are sometimes listed as separate metadata
types are:

− Rights management metadata, which deals with intellectual property

rights,
and
− Preservation metadata, which contains information needed to archive and
preserve a resource.

7. There are spelling errors in the passage below. Read the passage carefully and then answer the
questions which follow. 

I have been imprest by the structure and content of the CAPE and in particular the flexibility to
offer various combanations of breadth and depth. The inclusion of core courses is also helpful in
preparing students for higher education in an international context. 

In examining the syllabus content and duration of CAPE courses, we have concluded that the
qualifications resulting from two-subjick courses are comparable to GCE Advanced Ievell i.e. in
Accounting, Biology, Chemistry, French, History, Literatures in English, Mathematics, Physics
and Spanish and should be acceptible entry qualifications for most degree programes. 

a. Circle the errors in the passage above. 

b. Write the corrected version for EACH of the errors circled in (a) above. One example has
been completed for you. 

Error  Correction 

Levell  Level 

8. (a) State two examples of  EACH of the following types of software. 
1. Application software : word processing program
Spreadsheet programs

2. Operating systems software: windows, mac os

(b) explain the difference between application software and operating system software. 
The main difference between operating system and application software is that
an operating system is a system software that works as the interface between the user and
the hardware while the application software is a program that performs a specific task

9. Identify TWO types of documents used in data processing. 

  

10.  In the table below, indicate what type of display should be used to produce the EACH task.
The first one has been completed for you. 
 Document  Simple Display  Advanced Display

Invitation  ***

(a) Flowchart 

(b Menu 
)

(c) Newsletter 

(d Leaflet 
)

(e) Columnar