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- Hotel Arrivals: Digital Tasks: Examines digital tasks involved when arriving at a hotel.
- Software and System Technologies: Understanding communication software and systems updates.
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- Communication and System Technologies: Details needed computer features for downloading communication software and system updates.
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1, June/2022/Paper_4IT1_01/No.1(a, b, e, 1)
Letta travels for work and holidays.
She uses ICT for planning her travel and for entertainment Letta uses a camera and camcorder when travelling.
(a) Which one of these is a camcorder used for?
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Backing up video files
Connecting a camera to a tablet
Creating presentation transitions
Creating video files
(b) Which one of these connectivity types is the fastest Letta could use to transfer
files from her camcorder to her laptop?
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USB (e) Letta uses a camera with a 128 GiB memory card.
Each photograph uses 3 MiB of storage.
(i) Construct an expression to show how many photographs can be stored on
the memory card.
(2) (il) Which one of these is the type of storage used by the memory card?
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B Flash
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D Optical
(iii) State one reason why Letta’s camera uses ROM.
(iv) State one benefit to Letta of the camera software using compression. (f) Explain one advantage of increasing the speed of the camera's processor.
(2) 2. June/2022/Paper_4iT1_01/No.2(a)
Letta arrives at a hotel.
(a) Letta fills in a form at the hotel reception desk.
Which one of these is an OCR reader used for?
a)
Finding data
Opening e-books
Recognising barcodes
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Scanning text 3, June/2022/Paper_4IT1_01/No.5(b,c, d, e, f)
(b) State two purposes of communication software.
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(2) (d) List two peripheral devices that could be used to input text by people who are
unable to use a mouse and keyboard.
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(e) Explain one benefit of using defragmentation after installing software on a
magnetic hard disk.
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) State the type of utility software that reduces the size of a file.
a 4. sune/2022/Paper_4IT1R_01/No.1(a, ef, gh)
Nihal travels for work and holidays.
He uses ICT to plan his travel and for entertainment. Nihal uses a camera and camcorder when travelling.
{a) State one use of a camcorder. (e) Nihal uses a camera with a 64 GiB memory card.
Each photograph uses 2 MiB of storage.
(i) Construct an expression to show how many photographs can be stored on
the memory card.
(2) (ii) Which one of these is a benefit of using a memory card?
OA‘ Easier to connect to a network
© sB Easier to expand available storage
OC Files will be named automatically
© D Only image data can be stored
(ili) State the type of memory used to store the camera's start-up instructions.
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(iv) State one type of utility software that will reduce the size of each photograph.
a) () Explain one disadvantage of increasing the speed of the camera’s processor.
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(q) Flash memory Is non-volatile.
(i) State two other characteristics of flash memory.
@) (ii) Describe how a flash memory device stores data.
(iil) State why flash memory must be non-volatile.
(iv) State the type of memory that is volatile. (h) State one advantage of using @ Blu-ray disk rather than a CD.
(i) A camera is an example of a product that uses an embedded system.
Give one use of an embedded system in a camera.
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sune/2022/Paper_AIT1R_O1/No.2(@)
Nihal arrives at a hotel.
(a) Nihal fills in a form at the hotel reception desk.
State one use of OCR.
q) 6. June/2022/Paper_4IT1R_01/No.5(a, d, €, f,h)
Nihal downloads communication software to his laptop.
(a) Give two features of a computer that are required to download software.
(d) List two reasons for updating system software.
(¢) Explain one reason why compression should be used on files before backing up.
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(2) (f) State the type of utility software that reorganises where data is stored on a
magnetic disk
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(g) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using sensors to make decisions for
car drivers.
