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    c ; AS Co) Sr cone 01329010 FORM TP 2008013 JANUARY 2008 CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE ‘EXAMINATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY fechnical Proficiency ‘THEORY Hh hears Paper 01 INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES | ‘This paper has THREE sections and a total of FOURTEEN questions. 1 Candidates MUST answer ALL questions in all THREE sections. 2. _ Number EACH answer correctly in the answer booklet, ‘You may write Basic or Pascal (or any other language) code in those questions requiring pseudocodealgorithms. DONOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO D0 SO. Copyright © 2007 Caribbean Examinations Council® SECTION HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE ~ 30 marks Answer ALL questions. ‘You have won a computer which is equipped with 512 megabytes of RAM, a B0-gigabyte hard disk drive, a CD-DVD bumer, a floppy disk drive, two ports for flash disks (arll storage devices, a laser printer, a fingerprint reader (foe security), anda wireless mouse. (©) _Tdentify «primary anda secondary storage device in this system. (2 marks) ©) Name TWO perphecldevioes found inthis system, ( 2marks) (© ech of your courses needs 15.5 kilobytes of space on your system. How many ‘complete courses ea it into a5: megabyte fe? Cimars) ‘Total 6 marks ‘The Cental Processing Unit (CPU) has two major sub-unit, (Name the TWO sub-nits ofthe CPU. C2marks) ©) Give We function f EACH sub-unit (2marks) ©) What ype of memory is MOST closely connected othe CPU? (1mark (Whats th name ofthe chip hat hoe the CPU? (1muri) ‘Total 6marks CO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE 01329010/TANUARWAF 2008, Figure I shows a file access interface from an MSDOS system. Figure 2 shows a file sccess ierface from a Windows system. ea Ime Figure Figure2 (@) _ Namethe TWO typesof file access interfaces, shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2, respectively. (CF marks) (©) Indicate which ofthe to interfaces would be more appropriate for someone who is not very comfortable witha computes. Give a reason for your answer. ( 2 marks) (©) What is the name given to the CATEGORY of system software mentioned in the

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