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Cambridge International Advanced Level –November 2021

Information and Communication
Technology (9-1)
Theory
Year 10 Class: Time : 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Marks: Subject Teacher :

Instructions Question
Marks
No.
• Use black ink or ball-point pen
• Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name, class and subject 1
teacher’s name
• Answer all questions 2
• Answer the questions in the spaces provided – there may be more space
than you need 3

Information 4
• The total mark for this paper is 100
• The marks for each question are shown in brackets
5
• A calculator may be used

Advice Total
• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it
• Keep an eye on the time
• Try to answer every question
• Check your answers if you have time at the end

Name of Setter Mrs. Gayathri Samaranayake

Name of Subject Head Mrs. Anuradha Kodithuwakku

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Answer ALL questions. Write your answers in the spaces provided. Some questions must be
answered with a cross in a box. If you change your mind about an answer, put a line through the
box. And then mark your new answer with a cross.

Nora uses digital devices to listen to music and to watch movies. She is buying new devices for her
bedroom.

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Use this information to answer Question 1(a)
Speaker A Speaker B

Speaker Type Full HD Stereo sound Speaker Type Woofer 8 inches

Woofers
Battery Capacity 4000 mAh Battery Capacity 2100 mAh

Weight 6.8 kg Weight 8.4kg

Connectivity Wireless karaoke and Connectivity Wireless

PA system
USB Ports Yes No
Speaker C Speaker D

Speaker Type Full HD Stereo sound Speaker Type Wireless karaoke and
Woofers PA system
Battery Capacity 1800mAh Battery Capacity 4500mAh

Weight 6.0kg Weight 3.5kg

Connectivity Wireless/ Bluetooth Connectivity Bluetooth

USB Ports Yes USB Ports No

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Use the above table to answer the question 1

1) Nora wants to buy a new Karaoke speaker set.

(a) (i) Which one of these has the best sound quality? (1)

A Speaker A

B Speaker B

C Speaker C

D Speaker D

ii) Which one of these would be ideal for home personal use? (1)

A Speaker A
B Speaker B
C Speaker C
D Speaker D

(iii) Which one of these provides easy connectivity with any device? (1)

A Speaker A
B Speaker B
C Speaker C
D Speaker D

b) Which one of these features is most suitable for outdoor activities? (1)

A Fun flashing DJ lights

B Easy to transport and setup
C Big loud sound
D Easy to connect to any device

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c) Karaoke speakers have built in rechargeable battery. What is the use of a rechargeable battery?
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d) Nora connects the karaoke speaker to her smart TV.

Give two ways that she can do this. (2)

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e) Nora prefers to have an outdoor TV for an event.

List two features that she must consider when selecting a TV that she could use to do this. (2)

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(f) Select one of the features that you have listed above with reasons. (3)

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(g) Devices can connect using wired or wireless methods.
Explain one benefit of wireless connectivity. (2)

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(Total for Question 1 = 14 marks)

2) Nora uses her smart phone as a source of entertainment.

a) List two entertainment features that Nora could use with her smart phone. (2)

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b) She decided to increase her phone storage capacity by adding 8 GB of extra storage to her
smartphone. Her camera quality is 8MP.

i) Convert 8GB to bits. Give the expression. (2)

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ii) Explain one importance of camera available in the smart phone to Nora as a teenager. (2)

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c) Smart phone aids Nora in her education. Provide two positive impacts of smartphone to her
education. (2)

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d) Nora organises a trip with her friends and sent an email to her friends.

i) List three personal digital devices that her friends could use to receive the email. (3)

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ii) there are three main protocols used to deliver email over the internet. List down two of them.
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e) Nora uses email communication to send important messages to her friends regarding the class
activities. What may be the reason that she has selected this method as her communication method?
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f) What are the other advantages that email communication has when compared to the traditional
post? (2)

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g) Nora uses email communication for her financial work done in the school interact club.
i) She receives online payment receipts through emails.
What kind of security threats that she can get from these online activities? (3)

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ii) List three card details required when paying online using a bank card (3)

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h) Nora analyses the most common safe online payment methods available. Why is she thinks the
debit or credit card payments are not totally risk free? (1)

 A Online shopping is firmly established

 B It is the most popular method

 C card fraud occurs when a criminal gain access to your card number

 D The account number is visible to anyone

(Total for Question 2 = 23 marks)

3) Nora thinks of a secure online payment method.

a) i) Suggest a secure online payment method for her to continue her club payments.
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ii) Give two advantages of using third party payment processors.

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iii) Nora collaborates with her friends to make presentations to the club activities. Explain what
collaborative working is. (2)

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(b) State three features of a collaborative working. (3)

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c) Nora uses her tablet computer to make the presentation collaboration with her friends. Tablet
computer does not have an internet connection.
Describe how she could use her smartphone to give her tablet computer access to the internet.

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d) Nora wants to protect her tablet computer from unauthorized access.

List two methods that she could do this. (2)

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e) One way to classify software is through ownership and licensing.

(i) List down the two types of ownership and licensing of software. (2)

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ii) Label the feature into those two categories of software licensing. (4)

Feature Licensing software

(Proprietary/Open source)

It costs nothing and provides the source code so that anyone can
modify the software for their own purposes.
The product should be free of bugs. If bugs still exist, updates known as
patches are often provided free of charge, which fix these bugs.

Feature updates which extend the software's facilities are often

available, although usually at a cost.
There is no guarantee that it works properly as there is no
requirement for anyone to ensure it is bug free.

f) Nora’s school does not have an internet connection.

Nora shares her smartphone’s internet connection with the new computers.

Which one of these should be increased to improve the students’ user experience? (1)
 A Bandwidth
 B Latency
 C Distance
 D Interference

(Total for Question 3 = 20 marks)

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4) Internet access is just as important as other utilities in most of the businesses. Nora’s parents are
choosing a new Internet Service Provider (ISP).
(a) They asked Nara to list down the features that they should investigate when selecting an ISP.
Suggest 3 features that they should consider: (3)
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(b) State two reasons why some people cannot access the internet. (4)

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(c) Nora’s parents want to boost the reliability of the home network.

List two method to increase the reliability. (2)

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(d) Nora’s parents want to add a firewall to their business network. Explain what a firewall is.
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(e)
(i) Encryption is another method of preventing data. Complete the following spaces using suitable
phrases. (2)

Using ………………………………………… key to encrypt and decrypt creates a problem known as the key
………………………………. Problem. To decrypt your ciphertext data, the receiver ill needs a copy of your
secret ………………. Sending the secret key over the ……………………………… causes a serious security risk.

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(ii) List two other types of online threat to Nora’s data. (2)

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(f) Nora thinks that internet security is most important to stay safe online. Discuss how to reduce the
wider risk of malicious actions through the internet. (8)
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(Total for Question 4 = 22 marks)

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5) Nora’s family use many online services.

(a) (i) Explain what an SSL certificate is. (3)

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(ii) List two ways that Nora can identify the secure sites hen accessing internet. (2)

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iii) Banks provide many online services. State one service to customers that bank cannot provide
online. (2)

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(b) Discuss the impact of ICT on patterns of employment.

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(c) Explain why access to the internet should be equally available. (3)

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(d) Many people use the internet for work.

Discuss the impact of the use of the internet on how people work. (8)

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(Total for Question 5 = 21 marks)

Total For Paper = 100 marks

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