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DIRECTORATE FOR QUALITY AND STANDARDS IN EDUCATION

Department of Curriculum Management

Educational Assessment Unit

Annual Examinations for Secondary Schools 2014

FORM 4 Information and Communication Technology TIME: 1h 30min

Name: _____________________________________ Class: _______________

Answer ALL questions.

1. The figure to the right (Fig 1.1) shows the

properties of a computer. Answer the

following questions related to this topic.

i. Describe the steps required to open the

basic information window.

[4 marks]

ii. What is the amount of Random Access

Memory installed in this computer?

____________________________ [1 mark]

iii. What is the name of the operating system installed on this computer?

_______________________________________________________ [1 mark]

iv. What is the speed of the processor of this computer? ___________________________

[1 mark]

Fig 1.1

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2. Write True or False next to the following statements:

True or False

i. If you don’t remember the full name of a file, you cannot find it.

ii. The special symbols that you can use to help you during a search

operation are called wildcards.

iii. The ‘*’ and the ‘?’ are both examples of wildcards.

iv. If you type ‘car?’ in the search box, you can find filenames such

as ‘carry’, ‘cartoon’ and ‘caring’.

v. If you type ‘*.doc’ or ‘*.docx’ in the search box, you will be

searching for MS Word documents.

vi. If you type ‘t*.ppt’ in the search box, you should get a list of MS

Excel files that start with the letter ‘t’.

vii. If you type ‘bo!!.doc’ in the search box, you should get the files

with titles like, ‘book.doc’, ‘boat.doc’ and ‘bone.doc’.

viii. The wildcard ‘?’ is used to represent a single character.

ix. You can search a file by its size.

x. You cannot search a file by knowing when it was modified.

[10 marks]

3. Use some of the following terms to fill in the blanks below.

Tools Automatic OK

Page Layout Cancel Hyphenation

If a word is too long to fit at the end of a line, MS Word moves the word to the beginning of

the next line instead of hyphenating it. However, you can switch on the option to have

automatic hyphens in your documents. To do this, you should click:

i. in the __________________________ tab,

ii. click __________________________ button,

iii. click __________________________.

[3 marks]

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4. Look carefully at the following word document and answer the questions below. Note that

paragraphs have been numbered.

Write the correct paragraph number for the following questions.

i. Which is the paragraph with justified text?

ii. Which paragraph has the first line indented by 2 cm?

iii. Which paragraph has a double line spacing?

iv. Which paragraph includes text in italics?

v. Which paragraph is centered?

vi. Write the number of the paragraphs that contain hyphenated text.

vii. Which paragraph is right aligned?

viii. Which paragraph has text hanging by 2 cm?

ix. Which paragraph is left indented by 2 cm?

[9 marks]

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5. Mark with A, B, C, D and E the Figure below (Fig 5.1) to show where one should click to:

(the first one has been done as an example).

A Start the Mail Merge.

B Open the Address list to be used in the Mail Merge.

C Insert the name and the address in the letter.

D Merge to a new document.

E Move from one page to another to check how your merged letters will be printed.

A

[4 marks]

6. The following questions are about Mail Merge. Tick the correct answer with a ().

i. Preparing any type of merged document typically involves:

a. ( ) one file.

b. ( ) two files.

c. ( ) three files.

d. ( ) four files.

ii. Which file contains the standardised text and graphics to be included on the letters or

labels?

a. ( ) main document file.

b. ( ) graphics file.

c. ( ) data source file.

d. ( ) spreadsheet file.

iii. If I want to start Mail Merge I must click on the:

a. ( ) Review Ribbon

b. ( ) Insert Ribbon

c. ( ) Mailings Ribbon

d. ( ) File Ribbon

Fig 5.1

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iv. In order to print the Merged documents, I must click on the button named:

a. ( ) Insert Merge Fields.

b. ( ) Start Mail Merge.

c. ( ) Finish & Merge.

d. ( ) Select Recipients.

v. In order to add the name of a person at the top of a merged letter, I should click on the

button named:

a. ( ) Select Recipients.

b. ( ) Preview Results.

c. ( ) Insert Merge Fields.

d. ( ) Start Mail Merge.

[5 marks]

7. A school library has a list of students and the books they have borrowed. Give two examples

to show how the school librarians can use Mail Merge.

i.

ii.

[4 marks]

8. Giacomo bought a new computer with Microsoft PowerPoint installed in it. He would like to

change the User Preferences so that each new Presentation will have his name in its

properties. Put the following steps in order to set this preference.

Click OK button.

Click General.

Click File tab.

In the User name field type your name and surname.

Click Options. The PowerPoint Options dialog box is displayed.

[5 marks]

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9. Look carefully at Fig 9.1 and answer the following questions:

i. If you always want to display the same date, at the bottom of each slide, click

the button number…

ii. In order to make the information set here appear on all the slides, you should

click on number…

iii. In order to insert your name at the bottom of each slide, you should write it in

number…

iv. If you want to display the page number at the bottom of each slide, you must

click number…

v. After you set the date in the appropriate field, which button should you click

on to display the date?

[5 marks]

Fig 9.1

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10. Complete the following paragraph by writing the correct word from the ones in brackets.

A ________________________ (first slide, slide master, presentation) is the top slide in a

hierarchy of slides that stores information about the theme and slide

________________________ (layouts, transitions, show) of a presentation, including the

background, colour, fonts, effects, placeholder sizes, and positioning. The slide master enables

you to add ________________________ (slides, animations, background) items that you want

to appear on ________________________ (every, the last, the first) slide in a presentation. If

you make a change to the slide master, for example choosing a special font for the text,

italicising the slide title or changing the bullet styles, the change affects

________________________ (the top, all, the last) slides in your presentation that follow the

master. You can also add a logo or page number to a slide.

[5 marks]

11. John was asked to insert a Column chart in his presentation. He was

given the following data:

Draw the Column chart in Fig. 11.1 below to represent this data.

01020304050607080

Spring Summer Autumn Winter

2013

Rainfall

[4 marks]

Rainfall

Spring 30

Summer 5

Autumn 40

Winter 70

Fig 11.1

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12. The figure below (Fig. 12.1) shows 2 different types of charts marked A and B, used in

Microsoft PowerPoint.

i. Underline the correct answer:

a) The chart marked A is a (Column chart, Bar chart, Pie chart).

b) The chart marked B is a (Line chart, Bar chart, Pie chart).

c) To make changes in a chart, first it has to be (coloured, selected, deleted)

[3 marks]

ii. Fill in the circles in the figure above (Fig 12.1) as follows:

a) Write “1” in the circle that points to the Legend.

b) Write “2” in the circle to change the background colour of the chart.

c) Write “3” in the circle to change the colour of a segment.

d) Write “4” in the circle that points to the chart title.

[4 marks]

13. i. Draw a circle in Fig 13.1, around the icon you would

click, in order to start the process to draw an

Organisational Chart.

[2 marks]

ii. Which one of the 4 options listed in Fig 13.2 should you choose

to draw an Organisational Chart?

______________________________

[2 marks]

Fig 12.1

Fig 13.1

Fig 13.2

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14. Look at Fig 14.1 and complete the following

paragraph by writing the correct word from the ones

in brackets.

John is working in Microsoft PowerPoint and he

clicked on __________________ (Print, Open,

Save) before the picture in Fig 14.1 was displayed.

He selected the default printer named

__________________ (Grayscale, Current Range,

VonPrint 250). He will be printing

__________________ (2, 3, 5) slides in his

printout. They will be printed as

__________________ (1, 4, 6) slides on each page.

The page layout is set to __________________

(Landscape, Collated, Portrait).

[5 marks]

15. A pop-up is a small web browser window that appears on top of the website you are viewing.

We can use the Pop-up Blocker to stop pop-ups. Put the following steps in order, using

numbers 1 to 5, to set the Pop-up Blocker.

Click Internet options. The Internet options dialog box is displayed.

In the Pop-up Blocker section, tick the Turn on Pop-up Blocker.

Click the Privacy tab.

Click the Tools button.

Click OK button.

[5 marks]

Fig 14.1

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16. Match Column A with Column B by writing the corresponding number in the middle column.

Column A Column B

1 VoIP text files that save information regarding particular

websites. They may save information, shopping cart

contents, or user preferences.

2 online

community

allows for short text messages to be sent from one cell

phone to another cell phone or from the Web to another

cell phone.

3 SMS an Internet service that enables you to communicate using

voice with another person.

4 Cookies an Internet service that enables you to communicate using

text with some other person/s using an instant messaging

program.

5 IM a group of people that communicate with each other

using Internet e.g. e-mail, internet social network service

or instant messages. They communicate for social,

professional, educational or other purposes.

[5 marks]

17. Write True or False next to the following statements about searching the Internet:

True or False

i. If you are looking for Italian cars, you should search for

+Italian+cars.

ii. If you want the words to be found in a specific order, it is important

to enclose them in inverted commas.

iii. If you are looking for information about cars, which must not be

Italian cars, you should search for +cars-Italian.

iv. Google and Bing are examples of Web Browsers.

v. If you type butterfly OR caterpillar in the search engine, this will

list all Web pages containing both butterfly and caterpillar.

[5 marks]

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18. This question is about using e-mail. Underline the correct answer.

i. When I send an e-mail with high priority, it is usually because:

a. I want it to be delivered fast.

b. It is an important e-mail.

c. I want it to show at the top of the Inbox.

ii. The button used to mark an e-mail that requires a follow up is:

a. b. c.

iii. If I want to search the inbox for a message from John Smith, I would use the phrase:

a. from: John Smith.

b. John Smith.

c. inbox: John Smith.

iv. You can sort e-mails by name, by date or by size. To start the sort process in Microsoft

Outlook, you should click on the:

a. File tab.

b. View tab.

c. Insert tab.

[8 marks]

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