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General Certificate of Education Ordinary Level

COMPUTER STUDIES 7010/01

Paper 1
May/June 2006

2 hours 30 minutes
Candidates answer on the Question Paper.
No Additional Materials are required.

READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST

Write your Centre number, candidate number and name on all the work you hand in.
Write in dark blue or black pen.
You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working.
Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid.

Answer all questions.

No marks will be awarded for using brand names of software packages or hardware.

At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together.
The number of marks is given in brackets [ ] at the end of each question or part question.

For Examiner’s Use

This document consists of 15 printed pages and 1 blank page.

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1 Explain, using examples where appropriate, the meaning of these computer terms.

(a) smart card

[2]

(b) relational database

[2]

(c) Read Only Memory (ROM)

[2]

(d) de-skilling

[2]

(e) top-down design

[2]

2 State two features that are available on a digital phone.

[2]

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3 (a) Give one effect of hacking.

[1]

(b) Give two ways of protecting computer systems against hacking.

[2]

4 Give three file management tasks that are done by a computer operating system.

[3]

5 (a) Give two ways that computers can help teachers teach a lesson.

[2]

(b) Give two ways that teachers could use a computer system to send work electronically
to students who are absent from a lesson.

[2]

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6 (a) Give two benefits of using a high-level language for writing programs.

[2]

(b) State one type of program that would be written in a low-level language rather than a
high-level language and give a reason why.

Type

Reason

[2]

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7 The spreadsheet shows the computer equipment on loan to a staff member in a company.
Cells B13 and C7:E13 contain formulae.

A B C D E
1
2 PC Software Development Ltd
3 Ref: 2106
4 Computer equipment on loan to: S. Harrison
5
6 Item Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
7 PC system 1600 800 400 200
8 Notebook computer 1000 500 250 125
9 Hand-held computer 320 160 80 40
10 Laptop case 80 40 20 10
11 PC cover 16 8 4 2
12 Mouse mat 8 4 2 1
13 Total value ($) 3024 1512 756 378
14

(a) State a cell that contains a data item.

[1]

(b) Describe how the numbers in the range of cells B7:E13 can be changed to include
money symbols.

[2]

(c) Give a formula that could be in cell B13 to calculate the total value of the equipment in
Year 1.

[1]

(d) Each year the value of the equipment is halved. State a formula that could be in cell C7
to calculate the value of the PC system in Year 2.

[1]

(e) If the value in cell B10 is changed to 60, state all the cells where the values would
change automatically.

[2]

(f) On the spreadsheet diagram shade the cells that must be selected in order to create
and label a chart showing the Total value ($) of the computer equipment for Years 1, 2,
3 and 4. [2]

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8 Data-logging is used for monitoring the level of oxygen in a river.

(a) State one item of hardware that is used to collect the oxygen data.

[1]

(b) Explain how the oxygen data is processed by the computer.

[2]

(c) State two ways that the oxygen data could be displayed for a user to understand.

2 [2]

(d) Explain what the computer would do if the amount of oxygen in the water is too high.

[1]

(e) Give two advantages of using data-logging for monitoring the oxygen data in a river.

2 [2]

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9

START

INPUT N

Yes
IS N EVEN?

No

N=3N+1 N=N/2

PRINT N

No Yes
IS N = 1? STOP

Trace the flow chart using the numbers 2 and 3. Write down each of the values of N in the order
that they are printed out.

(a) 2 [1]

(b) 3

[2]

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10 Many bank customers now bank on-line using the Internet.

(a) State two advantages for the bank of on-line banking.

[2]

(b) State two disadvantages for a bank customer of on-line banking.

[2]

(c) State three data protection rules that could apply to the customer data stored on a bank
computer system.

[3]

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11 A mail order company is considering using a computer system for stock control and order
processing.

(a) Give two fact finding methods that would be used.

[2]

(b) Give two items that would be included in the feasibility report.

[2]

(c) Give three tasks that would be done at the design stage.

[3]

(d) Describe one way that the conversion from the old system to the new system could be
done.

[1]

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12 A music club keeps its members’ details on a computer file.

(a) Complete the table below which shows the data type, field length and validation check
used for the club members’ data.

Data type Field length Validation check

Name
Address
Date of birth
E-mail address
[4]

(b) New members can join the music club by completing an application form on the club
website.

Using the screen below design a web page which shows:

• the form for collecting new members’ details

• a link to another web page listing events for the year.

[5]

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(c) Each member is given a reference number. Give one reason why the reference number
must be unique.

[1]

(d) Give a situation when a record would be amended.

[1]

(e) State the type of file access that is used to update a record.

[1]

13 Expert systems are used for fault diagnosis.

(a) Explain how an expert system could be used to advise a technician on how to repair a
computer that is no longer working.

[3]

(b) Give two applications, other than fault diagnosis, that use an expert system.

2 [2]

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14 Batch processing is used for producing electricity bills.

(a) Give two reasons why batch processing is used rather than real-time processing for
producing electricity bills.

[2]

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(b) Select words from the list below to complete the systems flowchart for electricity bill
payments.

errors master file sorted transaction file

update validate validated transaction file

payments

sort

new master
file
[6]

(c) Describe how a master file could be recovered after a systems failure.

[2]

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15 (a) Give four features of a computer-aided design (CAD) program that could be used to
design a water jug.

[4]

(b) Give one benefit for a manufacturer of using a computer-aided design/computer-aided

manufacture (CAD/CAM) system.

[1]

16 (a) A formula for calculating the body mass index (BMI) is:

weight in kilograms
BMI =
(height in metres) x (height in metres)

Calculate the BMI for a person whose weight is 80kg and height is 2 metres.

[1]

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(b) Using pseudocode or otherwise, write an algorithm that will input the ID, weight (kg) and
height (m) of 30 students, calculate their body mass index (BMI) and output their ID,
BMI and a comment as follows:

A BMI greater than 25 will get the comment ‘OVER WEIGHT’, a BMI between 25 and
19 (inclusive) will get ‘NORMAL’ and a BMI less than 19 will get ‘UNDER WEIGHT’.

[6]

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