End of Term Exam

Academic Session 2022 – 23

Subject: CS/ICT Class: VII

Term II– Revision Pack

Please note that this Revision pack has been devised for the End of Term 2 Exam 2023 as an additional
resource pack for the learners’ reference and further support along with all the revision activities
conducted at school. This pack has been designed as a compilation of reference material from
curriculum objectives & some tasks for practice to supplement students’ learning.

The students can use this revision pack at their own pace and convenience, however, if there are any
questions about using the resource pack or would like additional support related to the concepts
provided, please do reach out to the teachers.

We wish Good luck to all our learners for the End of Year Examination and thank parents & teachers for
their continued partnership and support.
Chapter 1 : Components of computer
System.
Chapter 3. Storage devices (ICT)
Chapter 2. Communication and internet
technologies (Data transmission, Simplex ,
Half duplex, Full duplex, Serial and Parallel
transmission)

Chapter 14, 15, 17 .Document production

Python
 Components of a Computer System and
Storage Devices

Learning objectives of this section:

# Know what a computer system is and be able to identify and describe the
main components of a computer system.
# Understand what internal memory is and be able to describe the
difference between RAM and ROM.
# Be able to identify and describe the difference betweeninput devices,
storage devices and backing storage.

Examples of common Computer Hardware (components)

There are two types of internal memory - RAM and ROM.

Input Devices
There are two types of Input devices:
Manual Input Devices: Need to be operated by a human to input information

Automatic Input Devices: Can input information on their own.

Storage Devices and Media
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Session: 2022 – 2023
Date: ……………………………………………
Subject: CS
Section:
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QUIZ
STORAGE DEVICES

Total marks for this quiz is 10. Each question carry equal mark
Choose the right option.

1. CD’s and DVD’s are described as

a. Magnetic storage devices
b. Optical storage devices
c. Solid state storage devices
2. Optical media storage devices depends upon
a) Laser light
b) Blue light
c) None of these

3. DVD uses a lasers with a wavelength of

d) 700 nm
e) 450 nm
f) None of these

4. CD-R is _________ than RW disks.

g) Cheaper
h) expensive

5. The data access time and data transfer time are very fast in
i) Portable hard disk drives
j) Fixed hard disk drives
k) None of these.

Mark whether the following statement is true or false.

• Portable hard drives can be used to transfer data between two computers.

• Portable hard drive have a large memory of capacity.

• One burned CD-R behaved like a ROM.

• Data transfer rate is not as fast in portable hard drives.

• CD-RW and DVD-RW can be written over many times.

Term: II Name: _______________
Session 2022-2023 Date : _______________
Section : _____________

QUIZ 3 (GRADED)

SOLID STATE MEDIA AND SSD

1. Tick whether the following are optical, magnetic or solid state storage media. [4]

2. Ring two items which are storage devices. [2]

3. Discuss any four disadvantages of solid state backing storage [4]

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ICT –Yr VII QUIZ 3 Worksheet Term II (2022-23)
IGCSE Past Paper Questions
1. a) Four examples of optional storage media are:

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2. There are six descriptions in the table below.
Complete the table below by writing the correct storage device or media in the box next to each
description.

3. A set of photographs has been taken for a wedding. All the guests are to be sent directly stored copies
through the ordinary postal services. There are fifty photographs and each photograph is between 1.8 and
2.5 megabytes in size.
[3]
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3. a) Optical storage media can be used to store data.
Describe how the data is read from a Compact Disc (CD). [4]

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b) A sports events company uses a digital camera attached to a drone (small flying system), to video their
events from the sky.
i) Circle the most suitable type of storage to store the video. [1]
Optical Magnetic Solid state
ii) Explain the reason for your choice in part (b) (i). [2]
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4. A school must ensure that the data it keeps on staff and pupils is not lost. The school has to decide on a
suitable storage medium for taking and keeping backups.
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different media available that the school could use for its
backups
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5. Joanna has a number of text files, music files, and video files stored on the hard disk drive of her
computer. She wants to transfer these files onto removable storage media. Sha can use CDs, DVDs or
floppy disks.
a) Draw a line to link each medium to its storage capacity. [3]

Storage capacity
Medium

CD 1.44 Mb
DVD 650 Mb
Floppy disk 4.7 Gb

b) Give two reasons for transferring the files onto these removable storage media. [2]
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6. Tick one box in each row to show which storage medium is most suitable for each of the tasks shown.

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7. At the end of each day, a company makes a backup of all its data. What is a backup? [1]
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8. Underline two storage devices. [1]

9. A school buys a CD – ROM for Geography.
Tick whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE. [3]

10. An archive contains thousands of paper documents. These documents are going to be scanned for
electronic storage. The documents could be stored on CD-Rs or a hard disk.
a) Give one advantage of CD – RS. [2]

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b) Give one advantage of hard disks. [2]

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11. Wordsworth Dental Practice needs a method of transferring files between computers that are not
on the network.
Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the following storage devices for this purpose:
• Flash memory/memory stick
• DVD
• CD

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 MID Term Paper Marking Scheme
CS – Year VII Term 2 Mid Term
MARKING SCHEME
1 4

2(a) 2
(b)

3 2

4 3

5 2

6(a) 3
6(b) 2

7(a) 3

7(b) 1
(i )
( ii ) 1

7 (b) 1
( iii )

7 (b) 1
(iv)
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Data Transmission
IGCSE PAST PAPER QUESTIONS
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 Practicals
Document Productions
You work for a company called Tawara Adventures. You are going to perform some clerical tasks for this
company.

Task 1 – Evidence Document

• Open the file J216EVIDENCE.RTF

• Make sure that your name, Centre number and candidate number will appear on every page of this
document.
• Save this Evidence Document in your work area as J216EVIDENCE followed by your candidate number.
For example, J216EVIDENCE9999

You will need this Evidence Document to store screenshots of the evidence you are instructed to
produce.

Task 2 – Document
 You are going to edit a newsletter for Tawara Adventures. The company uses a corporate house
style for all their documents. Paragraph styles should be created and applied as instructed. All
imported data should have the News-body text style applied unless otherwise instructed.

1. Using a suitable software package, open the file J216NEWSDRAFT.RTF

Set the:

o page size to A4
o orientation to portrait
o top and bottom margins to 2.5 centimetres
o left and right margins to 1.5 centimetres.

EVIDENCE 1
Take screenshot(s) to show the page size. Place this in your Evidence Document

EVIDENCE 2

Take screenshot(s) to show the margin settings. Place this in your Evidence Document.

2. Save the document in your work area with the file name NEWSLETTER. Make sure it is saved in the
format of the software you are using. [2]
EVIDENCE 3

Place in your Evidence Document a screenshot to show this file has been saved. Make sure there is
evidence of the file type.
3. Place in the header:
• your name, Centre number and candidate number left aligned
• automated page number right aligned.

• Place in the footer the automated file name and path centre aligned.
• Make sure that:

• all the alignments match the page margins

• no other text is included in the header and footer area
• headers and footers are displayed on all pages. [2]

4. Create the following paragraph styles:

 EVIDENCE 4
Place in your Evidence Document screenshot(s) to show all the settings for the News-subheading style.

[2]

5. At the start of the document enter the title

Tawara Adventures Newsletter [1]

6. Apply the News-title style to this text. [1]
7. Below the title, add the subtitle
First draft by: and add your name. [1]
8. Apply the News-subtitle style to this text.
[1]

9. Apply the News-body style to the rest of the document. [1]

10. Change the page layout so that all the text after the first paragraph is in two columns of equal
width with 1.5 centimetre spacing between them. [2]

11. Identify the 7 subheadings in the document and apply the News-subheading style to each one. [1]
12. Open the file J216NEWSPORTS.CSV and insert the contents as a table within the column width
after the text ...activities to our centres: [1]
13. Delete the third column with the heading Rating from the table. [1]
14. Make sure that:
• the News-table style is applied to columns 2 and 3
• text in columns 2 and 3 displays on one line
• all borders and gridlines are displayed when printed. [1]
15. Format the table so that the left column looks like this:
[4]

16. Import the image J216CABIN.JPG and place this below the subheading ACCOMMODATION [1]

17. Reflect the image so the tree is on the right, like this:

Resize the image so that:

• it is 4 centimetres wide
• the aspect ratio is maintained.

• Align the image to the:

• Make sure the text wraps round the image. It may look like this:

[2]

Change the list from:

Free Wi-Fi...

to

...Climbing wall

to a bulleted list with square bullets.

 • Make sure that:

• the bullets are positioned 2.5 centimetres from the left margin
• the list is in single line spacing with no space before or after. [2]

• Save the document.

Use the below given Nearpod Code to get the source files

Python
TASK 1
Run the following program on using python programming language and find the error.
PROGRAM 1:
x=5
if type(x) = int:
print(the data type of x is integer)
else:
print(the data type of x is not integer)
PROGRAM 2:
name = input('what’s your age'))
print('my age after 2 year is :', name + 2)
TASK 2:
Write a program using python programming language that will give the input and user
have to guess the data type correctly. If the user guess it right then display the message, “
you are right” else “ you are wrong “.
TASK 1: [5]

Develop a python program that accepts the three numbers from the user and display the sum.

TASK 2: [10]

Develop a Python Program to take in the marks of 5 subjects and display the grade.

Problem Description
The program takes in the marks of 5 subjects and displays the grade.

Program Flow:
1. Take in the marks of 5 subjects from the user and store it in different variables.
2. Find the average of the marks.
3. Use an else condition to decide the grade based on the average of the marks.