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1 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2007 question paper 0418 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 0418/02 Paper 2 (Practical Test A), maximum raw mark 100 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates, to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that took place at an Examiners meeting before marking began. All Examiners are instructed that alternative correct answers and unexpected approaches in candidates scripts must be given marks that fairly reflect the relevant knowledge and skills demonstrated. Mark schemes must be read in conjunction with the question papers and the report on the examination. CIE will not enter into discussions or correspondence in connection with these mark schemes. CIE is publishing the mark schemes for the October/November 2007 question papers for most IGCSE, GCE Advanced Level and Advanced Subsidiary Level syllabuses and some Ordinary Level syllabuses. UCLES 2007

2 0418 November 2007 Paper 2 Mark scheme Total marks Printout of the second prepared and ready to send to the autoresponder Address: design.h@cie.org.uk CC hance.en@cie.org.uk BCC other.an@cie.org.uk Subject line ICTCOREX Attachment present N7REVIEW.RTF Body text Candidate name & number & Centre number Here is the requested file. UCLES 2007

3 Header Name - left Cand no - right Alignment must match page setup for each mark ± 5 mm Hothouse Design 2007 Stationery Sales Analysis Edited by A. Candidate Subheading same Serif font 14 point Spelling correct Left aligned Italic only Heading Serif 48 point Spelling correct Centre aligned Underscored 1mark Page size A4 Orientation Portrait First page Single column Page break Inserted here Page No Footer Left Automated page no Right Centre number Alignment must match page setup for each mark ± 5 mm Page 3 of 8 Centre number

4 Page margins Top & bottom 4 cm Left and right 1 cm Earlier in the year we started to analyse the sales training and recruitment budget for the department. profile for the stationery business stream within Those people currently employed are: Hothouse. Table Inserted The areas correct of place initial within investigation col were Column 1 correct place selected as the management of our sales team, our Column 1 100% accurate Years Surname Responsibility customer base, Row 6 (O Keefe) website deleted effectiveness, and an Column 3 (Forename) deleted 15 Pollard Sales Manager analysis of our No wrapping most successful product lines. In 27 Smith Shop All visible some of these cases the initial data collection has 11/12 Smith Telephone Sales now been completed and samples of this data are 2 Khan Website included within this draft report. Other data will need 5/12 Trapionni Stock Control to be collected and collated prior to the next meeting 1/12 Park Shop of the management committee. 1 week Pires Website Spelling Corrected The current sales team has a mixture of staff, some Another possibility to help reduce staff turnover would of whom, are long established and are likely to be to offer sales incentives to those who help to remain with the company for the foreseeable future. Paragraph Moved to here increase sales. This would be in place of the Many of the more recent recruits are being paid enhanced wages. It could operate in one of two minimal wages and there tends to be a high staff ways, either the entire team get bonuses if sales turnover. With the increasing cost of training staff in reach pre-defined targets or individual bonuses could customer relations, there is surely a case for be awarded. Each of these schemes has its own increasing the rates of pay of these members of the merits. The first idea gives a sense of a team, where department. In the long term it is likely to dividends, they are working for each other and the second idea as the costs of staff recruitment and training in this would make individuals strive to sell more items, area far surpass those paid to our employees in although it does little to promote the team approach. wages. The need for training would not be entirely Possible timings for these bonuses include: removed, but initial feasibility studies suggest that 1. weekly more than 80% of the training and recruitment budget 2. monthly for this department could be saved. If half of this 3. quarterly saving was used to fund pay rises for the current 4. annually. employees, it would increase their hourly rate by an average of 27%. This would encourage our As a consequence of these ideas, we need to look at employees to stay, yet still save us 40% of our annual similar incentive schemes in other businesses to see Body text 2 columns 5mm spacing Line between Sans-serif font 1.5 line spacing Page No Fully justified 11 point Consistent line spacing between paras Page 4 of 8 Bullets changed to numbers Centre number

No widows / orphans No split lists No split tables / charts Document complete / paragraphs intact Image of pen/pencil Top left Column width (± 5mm) Text wrap below image Allow tight wrapping around

5 No widows / orphans No split lists No split tables / charts Document complete / paragraphs intact Image of pen/pencil Top left Column width (± 5mm) Text wrap below image Allow tight wrapping around irregular shapes These styles will need updating before they can be applied to the website. Other useful data needs to include a snapshot of a single day s trading. This data has been recently updated to reflect the changing staff within the sales department. The table of data DB below extract shows table the sum of the number of Placed here individual items sold per employee and the count of Correct sums 2 marks the number of individual Correct transactions counts in a single 2 marks day s All staff initials selected trading: Staff Sum Of Sales Count Of Sales CP CS 26 7 IS KP PO RT if they have had the required effect on their staff. This needs to be researched by next Friday. The number of individual transactions per employee can also been seen graphically: The review of the house styles for the website update that is currently in development has been subtly changed. Some further changes to this need to be made, but this sample gives an idea of some of the styles suggested for the latest version of the stylesheet: p {color: #00ff22; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt} li {color: #ff0000; font-family: times, times new roman ; font-size: smaller} h3 {color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, font-size: larger; font-weight: bold} Number of transactions Transactions per employee Christine Pollard Christopher Smith Ian Smith Kim Sun Park Employee Patrick O'Keefe Roberto Trapionni Page No p, sans-serif Size 11 Units - pt h3 Colour font-weight ; before : bold 100% accuracy or other html syntax Page 5 of 8 Chart Placed here Vertical bar chart Correct staff names Data selection correct Chart title Centre number Cat & value axis titles No legend

6 There is a separate briefing note attached to this document which identifies the tasks for each of you during the next few days. Please refer to that, and if you have any questions please contact me on extension 144 or by at other.an@hothousedesign.co.uk Page No Page 6 of 8 Centre number

Printout from step 38 Field names correct for all Data types Correct for all 6 marks Plus one for yes/no field or controlled entry Ignore ID field or other key fields Printout includes candidate

7 Printout from step 38 Field names correct for all Data types Correct for all 6 marks Plus one for yes/no field or controlled entry Ignore ID field or other key fields Printout includes candidate details Patel or Dudley or Simplex Heading 100% correct Search on Company 2 marks Sort Ascending Cost 2 marks Cost Calculated field 2 marks Unit x Sales Data and labels fully visible Orientation Portrait Page Fits on a single page Footer Name on right Data entry 3 records 100% ok 3 marks Cost Company Item Unit Sales 0.57 Simplex Folder PVC 65mm Red Patel Folder PVC 65mm Red Patel Folder PVC 65mm Blue Patel Glass Clear Plastic Pockets Pkd Patel Ruler Dudley Square Cut Folder 270gsm A4 Red Simplex Biro - Black (box 20) Patel Biro - Red (box 20) Dudley Invisible Matt Tape 19mm x 33m Dudley A4 Lever Arch File Green Patel Bostik Blu-Tack Economy Size Dudley A4 65gm White Pkd Simplex Biro - Blue (box 20) Dudley A4 50gm White Pkd Patel 1000 Page Transfer Case 100mm A Dudley Glass Clear Plastic Pockets Pkd Patel Bostik Blue-Tack Handy Dudley Bostik Blue-Tack Handy Simplex Square Cut Folder 270gsm A4 Red NB Due to rounding rules applied by the software, some totals may appear to be incorrect in cost field and there may be some acceptable variation in figures here eg instead of Candidate name, number and Centre number Page 7 of 8

8 A4 files delivered Staff Company Item IS Cheaper A4 Lever Arch File Green IS Cheaper A4 Lever Arch File Red PO Beauchamp A4 Lever Arch File Green RT Rootrainer Trees A4 Lever Arch File Black RT Dudley A4 Lever Arch File Green Candidate name, number and Centre number Heading 100% correct Search Item = A4 and File (both Wildcards) 2 marks Sort Ascending Staff then Descending Company 2 marks Data and labels fully visible Page Fits on a single portrait page Footer Name on left Page 8 of 8

0418 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the May/June 2007 question paper 0418 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 0418/03 Paper 3