TEST CODE 01229032

FORM TP 2014015 JANUARY 2014

CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE@

EXAMINATION

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Paper 032 - General Proficiency

ALTERNATIVE TO SBA

1 hour 30 minutes

( 16 JANUARY 2014 (a.m.»)

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of FOUR questions.

2 Answer ALL questions.

3. Number EACH answer correctly in the answer booklet.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.

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Answer ALL questions.

Parliament has recently approved the Housing the Nation project. As such, low and middle-income earners
can now apply for the allocation of house lots in three identified areas of the country.

1. SPREADSHEET

The following worksheet was created to store the salary information of each applicant. To qualify
for a house lot, an applicant must have a net income of$8000 or above. Net income is computed
by subtracting salary deductions (deductions for tax, medical and union dues) from monthly salary.
An applicant pays a fixed union dues of$200 per month and a medical fee of5% ofmonthly salary.
Applicants earning $5000 or below pay no income tax while applicants earning more than $5000
pay 20% income tax on the amount in excess of $5000.

A B C D E F G H

1 CENTRAL HOUSING AUTHORITY

2 HOUSINGTHE NATION PROJECT
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4 Applicant Monthly Income Medical Union Total Net Status
5 Salary Tax Insurance Dues Deductions Income
6. John Clarke $15,000.00 $1,4000.00 $750.00 $200.00 $2,350.00 $12,650.00 Qualified
7 MaryThompson $9,000.00 $200.00 $450.00 $200.00 $850.00 $8,150.00 Qualified
8 Michael Persaud $11,000.00 $600.00 $550.00 $200.00 $1,350.00 $9,650.00 Qualified
9 Shane Ally $7,000.00 $0.00 $350.00 $200.00 $550.00 $6,450.00 Not Qualified
10 Peter Anderson $7,800.00 $0.00 $390.00 $200.00 $590.00 $7,210.00 Not Qualified
11 Mohamed Karim $14,000.00 $1,200.00 $700.00 $200.00 $2,100.00 $11,900.00 Qualified
12 Amanda Singh $11,500.00 $700.00 $575.00 $200.00 $1,475.00 $10,025.00 Qualified
13 Rosalina Etwaroo . $10,000.00 $400.00 $500.00 $200.00 $1,100.00 $8,900.00 Qualified
14 Vickram Saywack $16,000.00 $1,600.00 $800.00 $200.00 $2,600.00 $13,400.00 Qualified
15 Triko Johnson $7,500.00 $0.00 $375.00 $200.00 $575.00 $6,925.00 Not Qualified
16 TOTAL $6,100.00 $5,440.00 $2,000.00

(a) State the number of columns and rows used to create the worksheet. (2 marks)

(b) Name the data format which has been applied to the numeric data in the spreadsheet.
(1 mark)

(c) Name the cell alignment used for the data in column A and column F. (2 marks)

(d) (i) State the FUNCTION used to compute the total income tax paid by the applicants.
(2 marks)

(ii) Name the most appropriate cell in the worksheet to insert this FUNCTION.
(1 mark)

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(e) You wish to filter the data for all applicants who are paying more than $700 in Medical
Insurance AND who have qualified for a house lot. Copy the table below in your answer
booklet and write the criteria in it.

I_A_P_P_l_ic_a_"_t I_~
__ e_d_ic_a_I_I"_S_U_r_a_"_ce -+!_S_ta_t_u_s _

(2 marks)

(f) Write the results produced from the filter in (e) above. (2 marks)

(g) The following chart has been created from the data in the worksheet.

SALARY DEDUCTIONS

Tax,
$6,100.00,
45%

(i) Name the type of chart. (1 mark)

(ii) State the TWO cell ranges used to construct the chart. (2 marks)

(iii) State the title of the chart. (1 mark)

(iv) State the THREE data label formats which have been applied to the chart.
(3 marks)
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(v) Determine the purpose of the chart. (1 mark)
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" Total 20 marks

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2. DATABASE MANAGEMENT

The Central Housing Authority maintains a database named HOUSING with two tables to store
information on the house lots allocated under the Housing the Nation project. The two tables are
shown below.

TABLE 1: INCOME

INCOME ID TYPE

Ll Low Income

MI Middle Income

TABLE 2: ALLOCATION

INCOME ID AREA ALLOCATED

Ll C 80
MI B 120

MI A 40
LI B 200

Ll A 100
MI C 40

(a) State the data type of the ALLOCATED field in the ALLOCATION table. (1 mark)

(b) State the number of records and fields in the ALLOCATION table. (2 marks)

(c) State, giving ONE reason, which field of the ALLOCATION table can be used as a primary
key. (2 marks)

(d) Name the field that could be used to join the two tables. (1 mark)

(e) After sorting the data in the ALLOCATION table in descending order by the ALLOCATED
field, determine the data value which will be in the AREA field of the first record.
(1 mark)

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(f) The following query was created from the database.

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Field: TYPE AREA ALLOCATED

Table: INCOME ALLOCATION ALLOCATION
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Sort:
Show: ~ !J ~
Criteria: >100
or:

(i) State the table that contains TWO fields in the query. (1 mark)

(ii) Identify the fields that will be displayed in the results. (1 mark)

(iii) Determine the purpose of the query. (1 mark)

(iv) Determine the number of records that will be displayed when the query is executed.
(1 mark)

(g) The following query was created from the database.

Field: ALLOCATED FEES: [ALLOCATED]*500

Table: ALLOCATION
Sort: Ascending I.AI
Show: [0 ~
Criteria: >100
or:

(i) Name the type of field used for FEES. (l mark)

(ii) Determine the FEES for the low-income house lots allocated in Area A.
(1 mark)

(iii) State the field used to sort the result of the query and state the order of sort.
(2 marks)

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(h) The following report was created from the database.

Allocation of House Lots

TYPE ALLOCATED AREA

Low Income
80 C
100 A
200 B
Summary for 'TYPE' = Low Income (3 detail records)
Sum 380

Middle Income
40 C
40 A
120 B
Summary for 'TYPE' = Middle Income (3 detail records)
Sum 200
Grand Total 580

Tuesday, May 01, 2012 Page 1 of 1

(i) State the field used to group the records in the report. (l mark)

(ii) Name another field which could be used to group the records in the report.
(1 mark)

(iii) State the field used to sort the records and state the order of sort. (2 marks)

(iv) Determine what the value 580 represents in the report. (1 mark)

Total 20 marks

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3. WORD PROCESSING

The following letter has been sent to each applicant who has qualified for a house lot.

CENTRAL HOUSING AUTHORITY

Office of the Special Project Officer

April 22, 2014

Dear Amanda Singh:

You have qualified for a Middle Income house lot in Area A. Kindly submit the following

documents for verification:

• Passport or National Identification card

• Letter of employment including your salary details

Please note that after verification of your documents, you will be required to sign an

agreement indicating that you will start construction of your house within six months

from the date of the agreement and that you will not sell your property within five years

of the date of your land title. In addition, you will be required to pay a processing fee of

five hundred dollars at the time of signing the agreement.

Susan Thompson
Special Project Officer

Housing the Nation

(a) What feature is used to insert the text·"Housing the Nation" at the bottom of the page.
(1 mark)

(b) Identify THREE formatting features used in the letter. (3 marks)

(c) Identify the justification and line spacing that have been applied to the last paragraph in
the body of the letter. (2 marks)

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(d) A mail merge was used to prepare the letters to be sent to the appl icants who have qualified
for house lots. State the TWO types of documents required to perform the mail merge.
(2 marks)

(e) List THREE sets of data which can be replaced by merge fields in the letter. (3 marks)

(f) State the use of EACH of the TWO icons below that were used to create the letter.

(2 marks)

(g) State the steps required to insert a table before the last paragraph of the letter.
(3 marks)

(h) The letter will be printed on a page of size 8.5" x 14". State the name of this paper size.
(1 mark)

(i) State the steps required to password protect your word processing file. (3 marks)

Total 20 marks

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4. PROBLEM SOLVING AND PROGRAMMING

Consider the following program written in PASCAL.

Line No. Codes

I Program Houselot;
2 Const union = 200;
3 var
4 salary, deduction, net, tax, medical: real;
5 begin
6 net := 0;
7 Write(' Enter your salary')
8 Readln(salary);
9 If salary <=5000 then
10 tax ':= 0 else
II tax := 0.20 "(salary - 5000);
12 Medical := 0.05 * salary;
13 deduction := tax + medical + union;
14 {computes the total deductions}
15 net := salary - deduction;
16 IF net >= 8000 then
17 Writeln('You have qualified for a house lot') else
18 Writeln('Sorry you have not qualified for a house lot');
19 end.

(a) Name the variable to accept the input data and identify the line number of the input
statement. (2 marks)

(b) State the line number where a variable is initialized. (1 mark)

(c) State the name ofa variable used in the program. Indicate its data type and the line number
where it is declared. (3 marks)

(d) State the name of a constant used in the program. Indicate the line number where it is
declared and the value of the constant. (3 marks)

(e) Line 7 has an error.

(i) State the type of error.

(ii) Indicate when the error would be identified.

(iii) How would you correct the error? (3 marks)

(f) State ONE reason for including comments in a program. Indicate the line number where
a comment is used in the program. (2 marks)

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(g) State the name of a control structure used in the program and indicate the line numbers of
the control structure. (2 marks)

(h) State TWO line numbers in the program in which arithmetic operations are used.
(2 marks)

(i) Copy and complete the following trace table. Use 15000 as the salary entered for the
applicant.

Line No. Salary Tax Medical Total Net

deduction

6 0

(10 marks)

(j) Using the results ofthe trace table in (i) above, determine the output of the program after
the program has been compiled and all errors corrected. (2 marks)

Total 30 marks

END OF TEST

IF YOU FINISH BEFORE TIME IS CALLED, CHECK YOUR WORK ON THIS TEST.

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