CHARLEMONT HIGH SCHOOL

CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

June 2021
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
(General Proficiency)

Paper 03 – School-Based Assessment

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENTS
Spreadsheet
Database Management
Word Processing
Web Design
Problem Solving
Programming

Introduction
ISLAND TREACURES, a 3 stars hotel (20 rooms) was recently built on the South Coast of the country. It is
located at Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth the heart of the tourist community. As the system Administrator you
are required to use the necessary applications to keep records of the hotel’s activities for the month of
January 2020. The hotel offers two categories of rooms (Garden View and Ocean View) as well as three
occupancy types (Single, Double and Family). Below is the daily cost analysis for the hotel:

Occupancy Types Ocean View Garden View

Single $3500.00 $3000.00
Double $4500.00 $3900.00
Family $6500.00 $4700.00

SPREADSHEET

1. Create a spreadsheet called ISLAND TREASURES with records of the employees at the Hotel. The
spreadsheet should be used to calculate their Net Pay. The minimum hours per worker for each week are 40.

a) Employee TRN#
b) Last Name
c) First name
d) Address
e) Category (of workers)
f) Basic Rate
g) Basic Hours
h) Overtime Hours

The following table contains information on the respective Basic Rates: Type in an appropriate section of the
spreadsheet.
Basic Rates
No. of Workers Categories of workers Basic Rate
2 Receptionist $450
5 House Keepers $330
4 Kitchen Staff $330
3 Security Guard $400
1 Supervisor $580

Save the worksheet PAYROLL

2. In the worksheet
i. Insert the columns below to the right of the spreadsheet and perform the necessary calculations.
a) Basic Pay (Basic Rate*Basic Hours Worked)
b) Overtime pay ( Basic Rate*Over time hours worked *1.5)
c) Gross pay (Basic pay + Overtime)
d) Income Tax (10% of Gross pay)
e) Bonus (5% of Gross pay)

ii. All workers are covered under the Hotel’s Health Plan. Insert a column in an appropriate part of
your Spreadsheet to record each worker’s contribution which is 3% of their Basic Pay.
iii. Calculate the Net Pay of all workers in an appropriate column of the worksheet
iv. Insert a row which will record the total of all currency fields.
v. In another section of the spreadsheet use complex criteria to extract all employees who worked
more tha 40 hours
vi. In a new sheet of the same workbook insert the following table and calculate the following:

Labels Calculations
No. of Employees
Highest net pay
Lowest Health Plan

Save the worksheet PAYROLL 2

3. Perform the following modifications in the worksheet.

i. The Basic Rate for HOUSEKEEPERS has been increased from $330-$340.
ii. Sort the Spreadsheet by Category, Name and Net Pay in ascending order.
iii. Create a pivot table that list the Names and Net Pay for each employee.
iv. Create a bar chart to show the Income tax, which would be paid by each house keepers. The title of
the chart should be “House Keepers – Income Tax” and each axis should be appropriately labelled
and place in a new sheet.
Save the worksheet PAYROLL 3

NOTE: Submit a softcopy of your work, to your teacher, in a folder.

DATABASE MANAGEMENT
You were asked to computerize the records for the Administrative Department. Create a database called
ISLAND TREASURES DB.
NOTE: select the most appropriate field among the following tables as the Primary Key.
1.
 Import from PAYROLL 3 of the spreadsheet, the generated list of housekeepers, and save it as
HOUSEKEEPERS. The third housekeeper has resigned/retired. Delete her record and add
information for a new housekeeper.
 Create tables to store information about:

i. GUEST RESERVATIONS with the fields FName, LName, Method of Payment, Check-in
and Check- out date, Room #. The table should not exceed 20 records.

ii. ROOMS with the fields Room #, Employee TRN#, Room Cost, Occupancy Type (Single,
Double, and Family), Room Type (Ocean view, Garden view). Sort ascending on the field
Employee TRN #. Each housekeeper will be assigned/ responsible for cleaning four (4)
rooms. Add the necessary field(s) to the HOUSEKEEPERS table to make the required
adjustments.

2. USING THE DATABASE, ISLAND TREASURES DB, GENERATES THE

FOLLOWING QUERIES:

i. Housekeepers whose Net Pay>$13,000. Save as QRYBIGPAY.

ii. Guest with method of payment being cash and Double Occupancy Type. Save as
QRYCASH.
iii. Decrease housekeeper’s Income tax from 10% to 7 ½%. Make the necessary changes to the
HOUSEKEPERS table. SAVE AS TAX
iv. Generate the total room cost by the villa save as TOTQRY.
v. Create a Form to display information about about Guests. Save as Guest FORM
vi. Create a report entitled GUEST RESERVATION REPORT. The report should display the
guess Fname, Lname, and Room Cost.
Group on occupancy type and sort on last name (ascending order) and first name
(descending order). The report should show a summary of total room cost for each type of
occupancy. Save the report as Guests Report.
 WORD PROCESSING

A. Prepare a letter for merging to be sent to 5 organizations within the community informing them
of the features of the hotel. Include the table rooms from your database into an appropriate section
of the letter. You need to develop a letterhead that contains the name of the hotel (bold), address,
telephone number, fax number (italics) and email address (size 8) as well as the company logo. The
letterhead should be in the form of a header.

1. The letter should be fully justified using single line spacing. The margins should be set
accordingly left 1”, top 1.5”, right and bottom 1”. Save the letter as LETT.
2. The data source should be called SOURCE with at least five (5 fields).
3. The merged documents should be saved as MERGELETT.

B. Create brochure (triple fold) that informs the public about the special features and attractions
offered by the hotel.

This brochure should include, along with other details, the following:
(i) Graphics
(ii) contact information
(iii) Slogan
(iv) Properly formatted to include bold, underline, italic, justification (centre, left or right),
changes in line space, changes in font or font size
Save as BROCHURE

C. Create a fillable Form to allow guests to book or make reservations online. The form should be
able to accomobfate up to five guest (adults and a children). The form must be on the Resort’s letter
Head and must include at least three of the following feateues
1. Rich Text
2. dropdown menu
3. check Box
4. Date picker
5. Option Button

Use the following formatting features;

Bold, underline, italic, justification (centre, left or right), changes in line space,
changes in font or font size
The slogan must be plaved in the footersection of the form
Save as Reservation Form

WEB DESIGN
ISLAND TREASURES has requested that you design a web page to provide public general information about the
Resort and its facilities, Special offers and other attractions. The web page should include the following:
 A brief overview of the resort and its facilities
 The name and logo of the Resort
 Link to the resort’s email address
 A link to the application form/broucher.

PROBLEM SOLVING
1. Develop an algorithm or write pseudocode that accepts as input the names and, hours worked at a
basic rate of $330 of the five house keepers (using arrays). If the hours worked is greater than 40
then overtime is calculated at time and a half. The pseudeocode should calculate and display the name
and gross pay for each housekeeper.
2. Design and execute a trace table that displays the hours worked, overtime pay, and gross pay of each
housekeeper. If the hours worked is greater than 40 then overtime is calculated at time and a half.

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
3. Use a programming language to write the program code to implement the algorithm in (1) above.