Question 1:

A bank customer has two numbers related with his or her ATM card.

a) Name such two numbers.

b) Explain the internal processes that grant authority for the machine to proceed with transactions by using this card.

c) Explain the phases that an email message goes via from the moment the sender presses the SEND button until the time that the recipient reads the message AT A LATER DATE.

d) Name a specific configuration for a LAN and draw a labeled diagram.

e) Name two system programs and illustrate the purpose of each.

f) Illustrate four benefits of using a numeric code for a product instead of using its real name.

g) Describe what is meant by systems life cycle.

h) Name four tasks which a professional business programmer undertakes in his normal course of duty.

i) Spreadsheet programs give a large number of standard functions.

Define function. Name such a function and explain a particular illustration of its use.

Question 2:

You wish to make a database holding details of all your family and friends so that you could use it to extract details like name, address, telephone number, birthday and relationship to you.

·         a) Describe how you would first make the structure for this database.

·         b) Define accurately the terms RECORD and FIELD, giving a single instance of each taken from this application.

·         c) In table format, list six items of data that would be required for this application, giving, for each, an illustration AND its data-type.

·         d) You wish to send a greetings card to chosen people listed in the file. Describe how you could print a list of all people, with their birth dates, who have birthdays in February.

·         e) Describe why date of birth, instead of age, is normally held in a database.

 Question 3:

Choose a currently available commercial word-processing package. Describe, IN GENERAL TERMS, how each of the given features is accomplished. Avoid answers like “press F4”.

·         a) The user chooses the spelling checker. Explain all the options which are then open to the user. Describe and give two illustrations where the spelling checker cannot be able to detect an error.

·         b) Explain carefully how a block of text can be moved from one part of a document and placed in the other position of the same document.

·         c) Define the terms SUBSCRIPT and SUPERSCRIPT. Give a specific illustration of the use for each.

 Question 4:

a) Differentiate clearly between the terms VALIDATION and VERIFICATION.

b) Describe why automatic validation is performed when data is FIRST entered into a computer.

c) Below is CORRECT data held in a college file for a specific student. 

Name John Brown 
Student number 12343 
Date of birth 23/12/1983 
Fees due 123.45

Write down similar data for the other student however with an error in each item, which the COMPUTER would be able to detect as being INCORRECT. Make sure the errors are of different types. In each case, describe why the program would be able to detect the error.

Question 5:

a) Differentiate between RAM and ROM.

b) Draw a diagram showing the fundamental configuration of a computer with input, output and storage facilities.

c) Define the term OMR and describe precisely why it is used in the marking of examination papers.