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FORM TP 2013015 a JANUARY 2013,
CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
CARIBBEAN SECONDARY EDUCATION CERTIFICATE?
EXAMINATION
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Paper 032 ~ General Proficiency
ALTERNATIVE TO SBA
J hour 30 minutes
17 JANUARY 2013 (a.m.)
|
READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY.
1. This paper consists of FOUR questions.
2 Answer ALL questions.
3. Number EACH answer correctly in the answer booklet.
DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO.
Copyright © 2012 Caribbean Examinations Council
Alll rights reserved.
01229032/JANUARY 2013 Answer ALL questions.
WORD PROCESSING
‘The Election Authority of a CARICOM state is responsible for General Elections. Three parties
are contesting the general election to be held in November 2013. Computers and related equipment
will be used to prepare documents, spreadsheets, databases and to develop computer programs to
be used to handle the various tasks related to the elections.
The following letter is sent to the leaders of the three parties contesting the election.
THE ELECTION AUTHORITY
Office of the Director
11 May 2013
Mr John Persaud
Leader of Unity Party
Dear Mr Persaud:
‘National Election 2013.
The Prime Minister has announced that the General Election will be held
‘on 20 November 2013. As such, please note that Nomination Day will be .
20 September 2013. Your complete list of candidates must be submitted to
the election officials between 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the City Hall. Failure
to submit your complete list of fifty candidates will result in your party not
being able to contest the election.
Patrick Collins
Director
Ensuring Free and Fair Elections
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01229032 ANUARY 2013 (a)
(b)
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State the line spacing and justification that have been applied to the text in the body of the
letter, (2 marks)
State THREE formatting features that have been used for emphasis in the letter.
(G marks)
Outline how you would remove the underline from the date of the Nomination Day.
(2 marks)
Which of the following features are found in the letter?
@ Header
(ii) Footer
(iii) Footnote
(iv) Endnote (2 marks)
Briefly explain how you would replace all occurrences of the word ‘election’ ONLY in
the body of the letter with the word ‘Election’. (4 marks)
The election authority has recently designed a logo. Explain how you would insert the
logo into the letter above the text “THE ELECTION AUTHORITY”. (4 marks)
‘A mail merge was used to prepare the letter on page 2. State the name of the document
that contains the merge fields. (mark)
State the number and names of merge fields that this letter should have. (2 marks)
Total 20 marks
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01229032/JANUARY 2013 SPREADSHE!
Consider the following chart which was created from the data in a spreadsheet
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70000 4 :
2 60000 | _
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% 30000 | —____
20000 |~—_—
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District
(a) Name the type of chart shown (mark)
(b) Write the name of another type of chart which would be suitable to represent the data in
the spreadshes (mark)
(6) State the title ofthe chart and the ttle of the horizontal axis 2 marks)
(a) What isthe purpose of the chart? (mark)
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01229032/ANUARY ©
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Using the chart on page 4, copy and complete the spreadsheet below which was used to
create the chart,
1 District No. of Voters
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(5 marks)
Using the spreadsheet completed in Part (e),
(i) write a FUNCTION based on the data to calculate the TOTAL number of registered
voters (2 marks)
Gi) state an appropriate format for the values entered in the No. of Voters column in
Part (e) (mark)
‘The data in the spreadsheet were sorted in DESCENDING order by the No. of Voters
column,
(i) Write the RANGE OF CELLS used to perform the sort. (1 mark)
ii) Which district would be at the top of the sorted list? (mark)
‘You wish to filter the data for all districts with over 25,000 registered voters. Copy and
complete the table below in your answer booklet with the criterion that would filter the
data,
District Voters
(2 marks)
Write the results produced from Part (h). @ marks)
If the = sign is omitted from the function max(B2..B6) in cell B10, what would appear in
the cell? (mark)
Total 20 marks
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01229032/JANUARY 2013 3. DATABASE MANAGEMENT.
Consider the following database containing two tables:
TABLE 1: DISTRICT
pcopE | _DNAME
A Bee |
B ESI
c ESC
D DEM
E INT
TABLE 2: POLLING
DCODE PTYPE PLACES
D Government 200
E Privaté 20
A Govertnent 120
G Private 25
B Government 90
D Private 50
A Private 30
cl Government 18
E Government 60,
B Private 50
(@ State
(@ the number of records and fields in the POLLING table (2 marks)
the appropriate data types for the PLACES and DCODE fields in the POLLING
table (2 marks)
(iii) appropriate field(s) in the POLLING table that can be considered a primary key
(2 marks)
(iv) the name of the field used to join the two tables. (1 mark)
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01229032/ANUARY 2013 (b) Ifthe data in the POLLING table (Table 2) is arranged in ascending order by the PLACES
field, state the PTYPE that would be at the top of the table. (mark)
(©) The result of a query is shown below:
SumOfPLACES 5
720
\ (i) What does the number 720 represent? (1 mark)
| (ii) State the name of the table that was used in this query. (1 mark)
(d) The following query was created on the data in the database:
NAME TYPE PLACES
DISTRICT POLLING POLLING
S100
(Explain the purpose of the query. (mark)
(ii) State the name(s) of the table(s) used to create the query. (mark)
(iii) State number of records that will be displayed when the query is executed.
(1 mark)
(©) The following query was created on the data in the database:
Fila: [PLACES cost [PLACES 102]
‘able: [POLLING
(i) State the type of field that is created called cost. (1 mark)
(ii) Name the type of data that would be found in the cost field (1 mark)
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01229032/JANUARY 2013 (© The following report was created.
ELECTION POLLING PLACES
DNAME TYPE PLACES
Be
120
30
Summary for ‘DNAME’ = BCE (2 detail records)
Sum 150
DEM
Government 200
Private 50
‘Summary for ‘DNAME’ = DEM (2 detail records)
sum 250
ESC
Government 75
Private 25
Summary for ‘DNAME’= ESC (2 detail records)
sum 100
ESI
Government 90
Private 50
Summary for ‘DNAME’ = ESI (2 detail records)
Sum 140
INT
Government 60
Private 20
‘Summary for ‘DNAME’ = INT (2 detail records)
sum 80
Grand Total
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01229032/JANUARY 2013 Name
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the field used to group the records in the report,
the field(s) used to sort the records in the report,
ONE summary feature used in the report
the title of the report.
(mark)
(2 marks)
(mark)
(mark)
Total 20 marks
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01229032/JANUARY 2013 -10-
4, PROGRAMMING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
‘Three parties registered to contest an election. One of the parties later withdrew, therefore only
two of them obtained votes. The following program segment refers to the election results obtained.
(@) The declaration statements are listed below.
Line No. Program Code
1 Program Winner;
2
3 Const base = 100;
4
5 Var
6 partyl, party2; integer; {votes obtained by the two parties}
7 Ig: integer;
8 percent: real;
(i State TWO data types used in the program and indicate the line number(s) where
the data types are used, (4 marks)
(i) Explain the statement in line 3 (4 marks)
(ii) (@)_—_ What type of error would occur if the semicolon (;) was missing at the end
of line 8? (mark)
(b) State the phase of the program when this error would occur. (1 mark )
(iv) Rewrite the code in line 6 if all three parties had contested the election.
(2 marks)
(b) The body of the program is as shown below:
Line No, Program Code
9 Begin
10 Ig :=0;
ul Write (‘Enter the votes obtained by the two parties: *);
12 Readin (party1, party2);
13 If (party! > party2) then
14 Ig == party!
15 Else
16 Ig = party2;
7 pet := (Ip/( party1+ party2)) * base;
18 \Writeln (‘The winning party has’ pet, ‘ percent of
19 votes cast’);
20 End,
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01229032/JANUARY 2013