FOR OFFICIAL USE Presenting Centre No. Subject No. Level Paper No. Group No. Marker s No Time: 1 Hour 45 minutes COMPUTING STUDIES

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1 FOR OFFICIAL USE Presenting Centre No. Subject No. Level Paper No. Group No. Marker s No. 56 C KU PS [] Total Marks NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS Estimate Examination Paper Time: Hour 45 minutes COMPUTING STUDIES STANDARD GRADE Credit Level Fill in these boxes and read what is printed below. Full name of school or college Town First name and initials Surname Date of birth Day Month Year Read each question carefully Attempt all questions. Write your answers in the space provided on the question paper. Answer in sentences wherever possible. Before leaving the examination room you must give this book to the invigilator. If you do not, you may lose all the marks for this paper. The security of this examination paper requires that it is withdrawn from candidates after the examination and also after any discussion of the candidates results. This will ensure that the paper continues to be secure for your centre and others during presentation year 9/. Any appeals made based on this paper will assume that these security precautions are in place. (c) 9 Perfect Papers All Rights Reserved Page

2 . Tartan Pets sells pet supplies from a small shop. They use a spreadsheet to record the hours that their employees work. The spreadsheet is shown below. (a) All employees at Tartan Pets earn 6. per hour. Their total pay is calculated in cells D4 to D7 using a formula that refers to cell B. State the formula that would appear in cell D4. (b) The formula in cell D4 is replicated into cells D5 to D7. (i) State the type of cell reference that is required for B. (ii) State what is meant by replication. Page

3 . continued (c) Tartan Pets also records the sales made by each staff member during each week. Staff who make more than 5 in sales each week receive a bonus payment. They use a spreadsheet to record sales as shown below. A formula is used in column D to display Yes or No to show whether a staff member has earned a bonus or not. Write down the formula that would appear in cell D4 below. 4 3 (d) Mohan is an employee of Tartan Pets who prepares reports on company sales. He uses word processing and spreadsheet features that are part of an integrated package. State two disadvantages of using an integrated package instead of two separate application packages. (e) The employee s details must be kept correct and up-to-date. (i) State the law that requires this. (ii) State one other principle of this law. [Turn Over Page 3

4 . Castle Quest is a company that runs bus tours Total to castles Seats and on historic houses throughout Scotland. Seats Departure Castle Tour Name Seats Booked They store information about their tours and bookings Bus in a database. Available Aberdeen Dunottar Castle Part of Edinburgh the database table Holyrood that holds House information about 86 their tours is shown 7 below. 6 Stirling Stirling Castle Edinburgh Dalhousie Castle (a) Kris wants a printout of all of the tour bookings shown in the table above. State one other way that Kris could alter the format of the database instead of using a table before he prints it out. (b) When customers phone Castles Quest to book a tour, employees use a database to check if seats are available on the bus for each tour. (i) The database above contains a computed field. Describe is a computed field? (ii) State which of the fields is the computed field. (c) Abernathy Academy is interested in any tour with a departure from Edinburgh that has 4 free seats. A search could be performed on the database to find a tour that would suit Abernathy Academy. Describe how the database could be used to find a suitable tour. 3 Page 4

5 . (Continued) (d) Castles Quest wants to send a standard letter to all of its customers to promote a special offer on new bus tours. (i) Explain the term standard letter. (ii) State the feature in a word processing program that uses a database to add personal details to a standard letter. (iii) Kris uses a keyboard shortcut for this feature. Describe a keyboard shortcut. (iv) State an advantage for Kris of using a keyboard shortcut. (e) Kris saves the letter as an RTF file. (i) State what RFT stands for. (ii) Describe why the RFT file format is often used. Page 5 [Turn Over

6 3. Sandy is a programmer working for Dynamic Digital, a high-tech company that creates computer games in Scotland. He writes his programs using a high-level language. (a) High-level languages are portable. (i) State what is meant by the term portable. (ii) State why Dynamic Design want their programs to be portable. (b) High-level languages must be translated. (i) State two types of translator... (ii) Describe the difference between the two types of translator. (c) Sandy has written a computer game. It is to be sold on DVD-ROM. State two reasons why this is a suitable storage medium for the game. Page 6

7 3. (Continued) (d) Dynamic Digital has a client-server network. (i) State one item of hardware that each computer must have to enable it to connect to the network. (ii) Describe two benefits to the company of using a client-server network. (e) Programmers at Dynamic Digital invest a considerable amount of time in developing their programs. It is critical to the company that their data and programs are protected. (i) State one advantage to the company of using magnetic tape over using DVD-RW as a backing storage medium. (ii) State one disadvantage to the company of using magnetic tape over using DVD-RW as a backing storage medium. [Turn Over Page 7

8 4. The Hope Springs Eternal is a free community newspaper based in Hope Springs, Mississippi. (a) Alexina is a reporter on the paper. She frequently adds photographs and graphics to her articles. She has pasted a photograph onto the page and the text flows around the graphic as shown. State the name for the feature that allows the words to flow around an image? (b) Alexina has made a change to a graphic appearing in an advertisement. State the change that she has made to the graphic. Before After Flora s Flowers % off all floral arrangements! Hurry while stocks last! Flora s Flowers % off all floral arrangements! Hurry while stocks last! (c) The newspaper uses photographs extensively on its pages. Explain two ways that images can be captured and saved onto the computer. Page 8

9 4. (continued) (d) At the end of each year, the newspaper prepares a word processed report of their profits. The report will include a spreadsheet that is linked to the word processed report using dynamic data linkage. Explain what is meant by dynamic data linkage. (e) The programs that Alexina uses allow her to customise the HCI. Alexina has poor eyesight. State two ways that the HCI could be customised to help her. (f) Alexina has found an article from a magazine that she wants to put into the paper. (i) Describe how Alexina can take the article from the magazine and make it a document she can open using her word processing software. (ii) State which law she might break if she puts in the article. (iii) Describe what Alexina should do to avoid breaking the law. Page 9 [Turn Over

10 5. Hattie has purchased a new computer and wants to create multimedia presentations to promote her business. (a) For Hattie to input audio she requires a microphone. (i) State one other piece of hardware her computer requires to input audio. (ii) Describe two functions of the operation system on Hattie s computer and their role in inputting audio. 4 3 (b) The processor of Hattie s computer is made up of three parts. (i) Which part of the processor is responsible for performing calculations? (ii) Which part of the processor is responsible for fetching, decoding and executing instructions? (iii) Which part of the processor is used as a temporary storage location for data, instructions and addresses? (c) Hattie searches the internet to find new audio editing software and finds freeware and shareware software available. Explain the difference between freeware and shareware. Page

11 5. (Continued) (d) The software is sent to Hattie as an attachment. (i) Describe an attachment. (ii) State one advantage for Hattie of receiving the file this way. [Turn Over Page

12 6. Woodson s Sawmill is an international business making furniture for export around the world. Currently, all furniture is made by hand and people are employed to transport raw materials such as wood and furniture around their many warehouses. (a) They employ a systems analyst. Describe the service they would provide. (b) Another sawmill uses intelligent robots. State two features an intelligent robot may have. (c) The software for the robots is stored on ROM chips. State two advantages of using ROM chips for an intelligent robot. Page

13 6. (Continued) (d) The programs that control the factory s robots were written using a control language. (i) Explain the term control language. (ii) Give one feature of control languages that makes them particularly suitable for writing programs for robots. (e) Robots are often described as being adaptable. State why it is advantageous for the sawmill to have an adaptable robot. [END OF QUESTION PAPER] Page 3

14 6 MegaFoods Supermarket has details of all the products it sells in a multi-user database. (a) State why a supermarket database should be multi-user. (b) The database contains information on the 6 products that the shop sells. (i) State whether the database should be stored on sequential access or random access backing storage media. Give a reason for your answer. (ii) State a suitable backing storage media of the type you suggested in part (i) above. (c) Customers can pay for their shopping using a smartcard. Describe a smartcard. Page

15 6. cont (d) Michael can access his bank account details on the Internet to see how he has used his smartcard Every so often he has to change his password for the website and is asked to verify it. Describe verification. (e) Customers who require a new smartcard have to go to the bank and fill out a form that is then entered into the computer system using OCR. State what OCR stands for. [END OF QUESTION PAPER] Page 3

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