Carmel Pak U Secondary School

F. 4

B Name

Class
FIRST TERM EXAMINATION Class
2018-2019 Number

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

SECTION B (QUSTION-ANSWER BOOK B)

Date: 8/1/2019
Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes for both Section A and B

This paper must be answered in English.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS MC /25

1. Write your Class, Name and Class Number in the
spaces provided. Q.1 /13
2. Refer to the general instructions on the cover of the
Question Book for Section A. Q.2 /13
3. The questions in this Question-Answer Book carry
50 marks. Answer ALL questions. Q.3 /13
4. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this
question-answer book. Q.4 /11
5. Supplementary answer sheets will be provided
upon request. Write your Name, Class and Class
Number on each sheet and insert them with string
Total /75
inside this book.`
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Section B : Long questions (50 marks)

1. Peter is a computer graphic designer. He has designed a poster and wants to send it to ABC Company
through the Internet for printing.

(a) The ABC Company asks Peter to send the poster in a lossless file format.
(i) Give an advantage of using bitmap (BMP) for poster printing.

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(1 mark)

(ii) However, Peter finds that the file size of the bitmap file is very large. Suggest a method of reducing
the file size so that the image quality is preserved. Explain your answer.

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(2 marks)

(b) Peter uses his digital camera to take photos for poster production. The resolution of each photo is
1600 x 1200 pixels.

(i) Peter decides to store the photos in JPEG format instead of BMP. Do you agree with him? Explain
briefly.

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(2 marks)

(ii) Peter has a memory card with 1 GB of storage in his digital camera. Assuming that there is no
compression and the color depth used is 24 bits, estimate the maximum number of photos that can be
saved in this memory card.

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(2 marks)

(iii) Other than a digital camera, Peter decides to buy a scanner to capture images. Give a reason to
support Peter’s decision to buy a scanner.

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(1 mark)

(iv) After buying a scanner, Peter uses 24-bit color depth to scan photos. However, his computer display
device can only support up to 16-bit color depth. Briefly describe what will happen when the
scanned photos are displayed on Peter’s computer. How will the display device handle this case?

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(2 marks)

(c) Peter wants to print his poster using an inkjet printer which has 3 different resolutions 1200 dpi, 2400
dpi a nd 4800 dpi. Which one will you choose for Peter? Explain your answer.
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(1 mark)

(d) Peter wants to use the digital camera in part (b) with 30 fps frame rate and take a 10 minutes long video
clip. Calculate the file size (in GB) assuming that no compression is applied.

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(2 marks)

2. Ms Cheung keeps a lot of video clips of her daughter. The videos are stored in a number of video cassette
recorder (VCR) tapes. She wants to convert the tapes into video files that can be stored in her computer
hard disk.

(a) Give two reasons to support Ms Cheung’s decision to convert the videos stored in VCR tapes to
computer storage media.

(1)
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(2)
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(2 marks)

(b) Ms Cheung finds that she is not able to convert the videos with her existing computer hardware
configuration. State a necessary hardware device that Ms Cheung may need to add to her computer in
order to convert the videos.

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(1 mark)

(c) Name a video file format that can be used by Ms Cheung. Give a reason to support your suggestion.

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(2 marks)

Ms Cheung wants to record her own voice to an audio clip and then add it onto a video file. The table
below shows two different audio recording specifications.

Audio recording specifications

Specification 1 2
Channel mono stereo
Sampling rate 44.1 kHz 22.05 kHz
Sample bit rate 16 bit 8 bit

(d) Which audio recording specification will you suggest to Ms Cheung? Give two reason to justify your
suggestion.

Specification:
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(1)
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(2)
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(2 marks)

(e) The file sizes of Ms Cheung’s video files are very large. Name two attributes of a video file that can be
used to reduce the file size.

(1)
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(2)
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(2 marks)

(f) Ms Cheung plans to share the video files with her friends through the Internet. She finds out that there
are two different methods for sharing videos. The two methods are shown below.

Method 1:
The whole video file has to be saved into Ms Cheung’s friends’ local hard disk before playing the video.

Method 2:
By using technology of streaming to share the video.

Give two advantages of each of the above two methods.

Method 1
(1)
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(2)
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Method 2
(1)
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(2)
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(4 marks)
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3. Mr. Poon sets up a table named STUDENT for storing the personal information of students.

STUDENT
Field name description Field type Example
Stud_id Student number 00103
Cname Chinese name character 潘小興
Class Class character 1B
DOB Date of birth date 2001/3/6
Weight Weight of student 48.3

(a) Suggest appropriate data types of the fields: Stud_id and Weight. Explain briefly with reason.
Stud_id:
_______________________________________________________________________________________

Reason:
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Weight:
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Reason:
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(4 marks)

(b) Explain why Mr. Poon uses Stud_id as the key field instead of considering to use hkid (Hong Kong
Identity card number)

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(1 mark)

(c) Is it necessary to add a field of Age into the table? Explain with reason.

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(1 mark)

(d) Which coding system should be used for storing the table STUDENT? Explain briefly.

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(2 marks)
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Mr. Poon imports the table STUDENT into spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is shown as follows:
A B C D E
1 Stud_id Cname Class DOB Weight
2 26900 潘小興 1A 2001/01/04 48.3
3 06473 陳小文 1A 2001/03/06 50.2
4 12213 黃小虎 1B 25/11/2001 45.8
5 21109 張小恩 1C 2001/11/09 47.1
6 24574 李小明 1D 18/3/2001 42.7
7 Average 46.82

(e) Write a spreadsheet formula to find out the average weight of students in cell E7?

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(1 mark)

Mr Poon applies a filtering task with the table shown as follows:

A B C D E
1 Stud_id Cname Class DOB Weight
2 26900 潘小興 1A 2001/01/04 48.3
3 06473 陳小文 1A 2001/03/06 50.2

(f) What is the usage of filter? Why the above table only displays Stud_id 26900 and 06473?

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(2 marks)

(g) Mr. Poon stores the table STUDENT & spreadsheet files in the desktop computer of the school. The
computer connects Internet for browsing. State a security measure for preventing the computer files from
being stolen and explain the function of the security measure.

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(2 marks)

4. Betty is preparing a project report with topic of ‘The new trends of smartphones’.
(a) The project report includes texts and images. Name two types of software she should use for her
report .

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(2 marks)
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(b) The images she used in her project report are GIF file format. Suggest two advantages of using GIF file
format for the images in the report over JPG file format.

(1)
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(2)
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(2 marks)

(c) Betty also records some interviews using an audio recorder. State the steps required to convert the analogue
audio into MP3 format digital audio files.

Step 1: The ______________________________ in sound card will undergo sampling by taking

certain samples every second.
Step 2: Sound card will perform a process called ________________________ and assign a random
encoded number (0 to 216) to each sample.
Step 3: Compressed and stored the audio file in MP3 format.
(2 marks)

(d) Betty types the following passage, including some formatting features, using a word processor.

The program specifications must be well defined,

particularly if someone else is actually developing the
program. With these specifications you can be protected by
contract to ensure that the system does the kinds of things you
want it to do.

If this passage is saved as a text file (.txt), some formatting features will be lost. Name two of the features
that will be lost.
Formatting feature 1: _______________________________________________

Formatting feature 2: _______________________________________________

(2 marks)

(e) Calculate 8910 - 12010 using 8-bit two’s complement representation. Show your steps clearly and state
whether it has overflow error.

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(3 marks)
END OF PAPER

The following SQL commands and spreadsheet functions will be provided for candidates’ reference:
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Database (SQL commands – based on SQL-92 Standard)

Constants TRUE, FALSE
Operators +, －, *, /, >, <, =, >=, <=, <>, %, _ , ' , AND, NOT, OR

SQL ABSOLUTE (ABS), AVG, INT, MAX, MIN, SUM, COUNT, AT, CHAR_LENGTH (LEN),
LOWER, TRIM, SPACE, SUBSTRING (SUBSTR/MID), UPPER, AS, BETWEEN, BY, ASC,
DESC, DISTINCT, FROM, GROUP, HAVING, LIKE, NULL, ORDER, SELECT, WHERE

Electronic Spreadsheet
Constants TRUE, FALSE
Operators +, －, *, /, <, >, =, <>, <=, >=
Functions ABS, INT, RAND, SQRT, ROUND, AND, NOT, OR, CHAR, CONCATENATE (&),
ISBLANK, LEFT, LEN, LOWER, MID, PROPER, RIGHT, TEXT, TRIM, UPPER, VALUE,
AVERAGE, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, MAX, MIN, RANK, SUM,
SUMIF, FIND, VLOOKUP, IF
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2018-2019 F4 ICT 1st Exam - Suggested Answers

Section A

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
B A C D B D B C B B
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
D D C B D C C B D D
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
B A A D C

Section B
13M
1 (a)(i) better image quality without compression 1
(ii) Compress the file into zip format/ save it as PNG format 2
ZIP/ PNG format uses a lossless compression
(b)(i) No, because JPG is a lossy compression that cannot preserve the original image 2
quality
/Yes, because the file size is smaller / can be supported by different devices
(ii) (1 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024) Bytes / ((1600 x 1200 x 24) / 8)Bytes 2
= 186.4 = 186 images
(iii) Scanner can capture 2D photos or documents better than digital camera 1
(iv) Some colors cannot be displayed accurately 2
Display device usually replaces those colors by the nearest colors that it can support
(c) 1200 dpi, can provide basic picture quality with low price / 1
2400 dpi, can provide good picture quality with reasonable price/
4800 dpi, can provide best picture quality
(any one)
(d) 1600x1200x24x30x10x60 /8/1024/1024/1024 2
96.6GB

13M
2 (a) Reason 1: the storage media is more durable to humidity 2
Reason 2: faster access of file (random access)
Reason 3: allow fast and convenient editing of video
(any 2)
(b) Video Capture card 1
(c) avi, original file quality for video editing without compression 2
mp4, smaller file size and save storage capcity
(d) Suggestion: 1 2
mono is sufficient for human voice
better sound recording quality due to higher sampling rate and sample bit rate

Suggestion: 2
stereo for human voice is more lively
smaller file size due to smaller sampling rate and sample bit rate
(e) color depth / resolution/ frame size / frame rate (any two) 2
(f) Method 1 4
Once downloaded, the file can be stored into audiences’ computer
Allow video editing by audiences/ the video can be played anytime after 1 st download

Method 2
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can enjoy the video without long waiting time

The audiences do not need to have a large disk space

13M
3 (a) stud_id: character / text / string 4
stud_id is not for calculation / stud_id may have leading zero

Weight: float / real / decimal / number

The weight involves decimal numbers
(b) not to collect personal data due to personal privacy / some students may not have 1
HKID
(c) No, it can be calculated from DOB field / need to update the age every year 1
(d) Unicode / Big5 2
It can support Traditional Chinese
(e) average(E2:E6) 1
(f) Filter is to select and display the records meeting the criteria specified by a user. 2
The table is only displayed who is in 1A class.
(g) install a firewall: to prevent hacker to attack / 2
Apply a password to the file: to prevent unauthorized retrieval/access

11M
4. (a) ⚫ Word processor 2
⚫ Presentation software
⚫ Image editing software
(b) Support 2
⚫ background transparency
⚫ animation graphics
⚫ lossless compression
(c) ⚫ ADC / Analogue Digital Convertor 2
⚫ quantization
(d) Any two of the following: 2
⚫ Underline
⚫ Justification
⚫ Bold
⚫ Italic
(e) 8910 - 12010 = 8910 + (-12010) 3
8910 = 010110012

12010 = 011110002
1’s = 100001112
2’s = 100010002 (=-120)

01011001
+10001000
111000012 (No overflow error) (1 mark)
(=-31)