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CAPE Information Technology U1 P2 2022 MJ

Information Technology (Signal Hill Secondary School)

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FORM TP 2022279 MAY/JUNE 2022

CARIBBEAN E XAM I NAT I O N S COUNCIL

CARIBBEAN ADVANCED PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION®

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNIT 1 – Paper 02

2 hours 30 minutes

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.

1. This paper consists of THREE sections and SIX questions.

2. Answer ALL questions.

3. Write your answers in the spaces provided in this booklet.

4. Do NOT write in the margins.

5. If you need to rewrite any answer and there is not enough space to do so on the
original page, you must use the extra lined page(s) provided at the back of this
booklet. Remember to draw a line through your original answer.

6. If you use the extra page(s) you MUST write the question number clearly in
the box provided at the top of the extra page(s) and, where relevant, include
the question part beside the answer.

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

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SECTION I: FUNDAMENTALS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Answer ALL questions.

1. Over a three-week period in January, 150 customers were surveyed about a shopping website.
The report was made available in April. It stated that customers were recommending the locally
made T-shirts to their friends. Also, 86.5% of the customers requested personalized T-shirts.
Comments about the clothing included “reasonable” and “innovative”.

(a) Explain TWO differences between ‘qualitative data’ and ‘quantitative data’.

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(b) For EACH type of data (qualitative and quantitative), identify ONE example that is found
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(c) Outline ONE example of ‘knowledge’ that could be interpreted from the report.

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(d) State the type of information source that was included in the report and give TWO examples
of this source.

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(e) Using examples, evaluate the reliability and timeliness of the information in the report.

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2. (a) Identify the type of signal that is represented by EACH of the following diagrams.

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(b) Which signal in (a) represents ‘the sound of an ambulance’?

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(c) (i) State the meaning of VoIP and give TWO examples of popular VoIP applications.

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(ii) State TWO benefits and ONE challenge of using VoIP.

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(d) The following table contains various representations of the letters A to E.

LETTER DECIMAL OCTAL HEX BINARY

A 65 101 41 01000001
B 66 102 42 01000010
C 67 103 43 01000011
D 68 104 44 01000100
E 69 105 45 01000101

(i) Assuming that the table above is extended to include the letter G, determine the
binary representation for the letter G.

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(ii) Outline ONE similarity and ONE difference between binary data and Morse code.

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Total 15 marks

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SECTION II: INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Answer ALL questions.

3. (a) Mikah usually accesses an information system to book an appointment with the blood
collection centre. After typing his name, address, contact number and selecting other
information, the screen displays his eligibility and states what he should eat before the
appointment.

(i) Explain which type of user interface would be MOST appropriate for booking this
appointment.

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(ii) Describe TWO categories of users who may find this appointment booking
information system difficult to use.

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(b) Olorie used her mobile device to make a payment via online banking. She logged onto
the bank’s special app, selected the utility company and typed the payment amount before
completing the transfer of funds.

(i) Olorie saw a message that stated “Authentication failed” and asked a friend if this
meant that her password was corrupted. Define the terms ‘authentication’ and
‘corruption’.

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(ii) Some systems use a combination of biometrics, username and password to

authenticate users. Outline TWO advantages of employing this combination to
authenticate users.

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Total 15 marks

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4. (a) A network topology is designed in such a way that the failure of a single device will result
in a complete or partial network failure.

(i) Name the type of network topology described above.

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(ii) Draw a labelled diagram to illustrate the network topology described in (a) above.

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(b) New employees Arie and Mitcha were asked to change their passwords on their first log
on to the company’s website. Arie typed Arie1 for his new password while Mitcha typed
topjobforme100 for her password.

(i) Explain which employee’s password is more robust.

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(ii) Outline ONE method that is used to ensure that the correct user is changing the
password.

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(c) Outline ONE difference between ‘Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)’ and ‘Extensible
Markup Language (XML)’.

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(d) The cricket club wishes to update its website. Figure 1 shows the HTML code written for
the home page.

<html>
<title> The Eastbourne Semi-Profressional Cricket Club </title>
<body bgcolor=“green”>
<H1> The Eastbourne Semi-Professional Cricket Club </H1>

<P><font face=“times new roman”> Where workouts and training

are geared towards creating successful players. </font></P>
</body>

</html>

Figure 1. HTML code for home page

Draw a carefully labelled diagram to show ALL components of the webpage that the code
in Figure 1 will generate.

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SECTION III: INFORMATION AND PROBLEM-SOLVING

Answer ALL questions.

5. A construction company is contracted to complete repairs on a building. This involves several

tasks and phases and their deadlines. Some tasks may be delayed while others can be
completed together. The company estimates the time it will take for the tasks to be completed.
The following information was shared in the format shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2. Information relating to the schedule of tasks

(a) (i) Identify the tool represented in Figure 2.

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(ii) Describe the general purpose of the tool identified in (a) (i) in the system
development life cycle.

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(iii) State how EACH of the following tools can be used by the construction company
and indicate the stage of the system development life cycle that applies to the tool.

Prototype

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(b) A shopper browses an online store to purchase items. If the cost of the items is above
$50, the customer is allowed to check out the items and pay using a debit or credit card.
Otherwise, the shopper continues to browse and select other items. The shopper’s credit
card information is verified and once approved, a tracking number and date are sent to the
shopper. The online store updates the inventory.

The data flow diagram (DFD) in Figure 3 represents the information above.

Figure 3. Data flow diagram (DFD)

(i) Identify ONE entity, ONE process and ONE data store in the data flow diagram
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(ii) Describe which level of data flow is illustrated in the diagram above.

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(iii) State the name of the diagram which should be drawn before the one illustrated
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(iv) Outline the purpose of the named diagram in (b) (iii).

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6. (a) Describe the THREE characteristics of a well-designed algorithm.

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(b) Rebecca has been asked to write an algorithm to determine the average score obtained by
students in the Information Technology class.

Draw a flowchart to represent Rebecca’s algorithm. Assume that the score of each student
will be entered one at a time and that the user will indicate that there are no more scores
to be entered by entering ‘-1’ as a score.

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(c) Discuss TWO programming paradigms for developing software, giving ONE example of
a programming language for EACH paradigm.

Paradigm 1

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