GOZO COLLEGE Secondary School KULLEĠĠ TA GĦAWDEX Skola Sekondarja Half Yearly Exam 2015 Year 8 Level 5-6-7-8 ICT Time: 1Hr Name: Class: Answer ALL questions. 1. ICT encompasses all technologies (hardware, software and networking used to process and communicate information all around us. Below are some ICT services. Write the terms below next to their correct definition: Hardware E-Banking Network E-Government ICT E-Commerce Mobile Technology Office Applications i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. This software suite enables you to write letters, calculate bills and present your findings to a large group of people. Refers to all the portable devices that can connect wirelessly to the internet. The parts of the computer such as keyboard, monitor, and microphone fall under this category. Enables me to transfer money or pay my bills from home from a computer connected to the internet. Refers to all technologies that provide access to information through telecommunications. Devices connected together physically or wirelessly to share data and other resources between them. Electronic services available to citizens such as passport applications, examinations fees or car licences. When I sell or buy something online. [16 Marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 1 of 9
2. Underline the correct statement for each of the following: a) Which of these are examples of office productivity applications? i. Ms Word, Ms PowerPoint, Ms Excel ii. Tablets, Laptops, Mobile phones iii. Android, Windows, Multimedia Player b) Which type of computer cannot be used while travelling? i. Tablet ii. Laptop iii. Desktop computer c) This type of computer is portable, lightweight and makes use of a touch screen. i. Desktop computer ii. Laptop iii. Tablet d) This device is used only to play digital content such as songs and movie clips. i. Notebook Computer ii. Digital Camera iii. Multimedia Player e) Which of these keyboard buttons will open Help? i. Ctrl ii. F1 iii. Ctrl+F1 f) Which of these shows you programs that are running in the background? i. Desktop ii. Notification Area iii. Computer Window g) A USB Flash drive (pen drive) is most likely used to: i. Make secure backup copies of your work saved on a computer ii. Connect wirelessly to a network iii. Carry your files from one computer to another h) These keyboard buttons are used to open the Task Manager. i. Ctrl + Shift + Esc ii. Shift + Alt + F1 iii. Ctrl + Alt + Delete i) A digital camera store photos on a: i. Microdrive ii. Memory Card iii. Network Server j) If I need to write a detailed report including text and pictures I would use: i. Ms Notepad ii. Ms Word iii. WordPad [10 Marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 2 of 9
3. Have a look at the Computer s basic information and then answer the following questions: a) What is the shortcut used to display this window?. b) What is the name of the operating system used in this computer? c) What is the version number of the operating system?. d) How much installed memory does this computer have?. e) What type of processor does this computer have?. f) What is the speed of the Processor installed?. [12 Marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 3 of 9
4. Look at the following options found in the Control Panel and write the correct option next to each task listed below. Not all options have to be used and some options may be used more than once. a) Change desktop background. b) Change the resolution to 1680 x 760. c) Mute speakers. d) Change language from Chinese to English. e) Check list of installed programs. f) Add a new keyboard language. g) Configure volume mixer. h) Change the time-zone to Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome i) Uninstall an application. j) Change date settings. [10 Marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 4 of 9
5. This question is about managing files. Refer to the image below and write True or False next to the statements in the table below. i. The files shown above on the right hand side are stored in drive E: ii. iii. iv. The Piano Guys is a subfolder of Apps folder. The largest file is 393 Kb. The smallest file is TestV1.txt v. The file Address book.mdb is a spreadsheet file. vi. vii. vii. ix. The above files on the right are sorted by Date Modified. Amongst the files on the right we have 8 different file types. The file README.GIF is a text file. The above folder DELL does not have subfolders. x. The selected file is Agriculture in France.ppt [10 Marks] 5b. This question is about renaming a folder. The folder Others needs to be renamed to Personal. In three (3) simple steps describe how this can be done: 1.. 2.. 3.. [3 marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 5 of 9
6. Misc Questions i. Which key from the keyboard must be pressed to capture a full screen. [1 mark] ii. Which key combination must be pressed to capture the active window. [1mark] iii. Which keyboard key must be pressed with the mouse to select adjacent files. [1mark] iv. Which keyboard key must be pressed with the mouse to select non-adjacent files. [1 mark] v. List 3 ways to help ensure a user well-being while using a computer for a long time: [3 marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 6 of 9
7. This question is about Word Processing. a) Michael would like to save the document as a Portable Document File and name it Sports Cars. Using the picture below: i) Write the name of the document in the appropriate place. ii) Mark with an X where to click to change the document to a PDF format. b) Michael created a table in his document (see above picture) [4 Marks] i) The table has columns. ii) The table has Rows. [4 Marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 7 of 9
c) Michael would like to add another Column before the first column. Put the following steps, using numbers 1 to 3, to achieve this task: Select Insert Columns to the left Right click on the first column header Select Insert [6 Marks] d) Draw a circle around the button Michael used to insert the clipart: [2 Marks] e) Draw a circle round the button Michael used to insert the at the end of the second paragraph: f) Right under the table a non-printing character appears, as reproduced below [2 Marks] What does this non printing character mean? g) Underline the button which is used to show/hide non printing characters: [3 Marks] [1 mark] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 8 of 9
h) Michael opened the Paragraph dialog box to make some changes. Using the Paragraph Dialog box, (shown above) set the following: i. Set 3.5 left indent. ii. Set 1.5 as right indent. iii. Mark with a circle the option to apply First Line Indentation. iv. Mark with an X where he must click to change the general alignment to Centred. v. Mark with a where he must click to get help on using the Paragraph Dialog Box [2 marks each = 10 Marks] ICT Year 8-2015 Page 9 of 9