INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2008 Past Paper I Duration 1 hour 30 minutes INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS This paper consists of SIXTY multiple choice questions to be completed by students. Answers should be marked on the answer sheet provided. Each item in this test has four suggested answers lettered (A)‚ (B)‚ (C)‚ (D). Read each item carefully then choose the best answer. Sample Item Which of the following pairs represents general-purpose software tools? Sample Answer
Premium Word processor Computer Application software
the authorized users. 6. What percentage of revenue should a retail organization spend on IT? Discuss. Answer: It’s hard to put a percentage on the amount that should be spent on IT without additional information. Typically‚ you do not want to spend more money on IT resources than the information or services are worth. 8. What is meant be social influence‚ and how can it affect the acceptance of new IT? Answer: Social influence is when one person’s emotions or opinions spread to other people
Premium Management Project management
Version 0.2 Naparima College Information Technology School Based Assessment 2013‐2014. Background: For many years both students and teachers have complained that the most difficult topic to learn and teach respectively is programming. Most students however have been able to successfully accomplish programming tasks by getting help from past CSEC IT students. After much discussion with students‚ your teacher has suggested that you embark on a project to write a local open source programming guide book
Premium Word processor Typography Problem solving
processes and implementing change by redefining the business tasks in a holistic or process-oriented term. The winners of tomorrow are also those who gather crucial information and act on them quickly. Making informed business decisions enables businesses to accomplish their business growth and enables them to utilize the information to
Premium Management Enterprise resource planning
Chapter 1 – From Data to Information! Test your knowledge. 1) What are the four main purposes of information? The purpose of information is to inform‚ persuade‚ entertain and educate. Persuade: to make them believe what you’re saying. Entertain: to keep someone amused/ to keep ones attention. Educate: to be able to give someone information about a new topic. Inform: to tell people the facts. 2) What is a data type? A data type is a set of data with predefined characteristics. 3) What are
Premium Spreadsheet Primary source Reliability
life. Many of us find it hard enough to communicate face to face on a day to day basis without having to compete with a computer and a social website such as Facebook‚ MySpace‚ Twitter or Instagram. Our lives have been consumed with all aspects of technology that can access the Internet. In turn this leads every aspect of our lives right straight to the World Wide Web. We do things online such as paying bills‚ research‚ booking vacations‚ buying cars‚ shopping‚ getting results from the Dr. and all phone
Premium Social network service World Wide Web Sociology
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2008 question paper 0418 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 0418/03 Paper 3 (Practical Test B)‚ 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
Premium General Certificate of Secondary Education Typography Typeface
major role in fomenting innovation in information technology. A recent study by Greenwood and Jovanovic [1999] provide one dramatic illustration of these trends. These authors show that a group of “IT upstarts”—firms specializing in computer and communications technologies that went public after 1968—now account for over 4% of the total U.S. equity market capitalization. While some of this growth has come at the expense of incumbent information technology firms‚ the new market value and technological
Premium Patent Venture capital Patent application
Introduction: An Accounting information system collects‚ store and process the data into information which is being used by the managers‚ investors and creditors. These systems includes software which makes things easy to process the financial data for bookkeeping‚ Payroll and tax purposes. Accounting information systems are based on 6 components. * An Application to process the financial data. * Policies and procedures to secure the financial data. * Users who will use this system
Premium Data flow diagram Flowchart
of Information Technology in Tanzania Service Industries in Achieving and Sustaining Competitive Advantage and Suggestions for improving their effectiveness” ACRONYMS GDP ICT IT SME TCRA HIV TB Gross Domestic Product Information and Communication Technology Information Technology Small and Medium Enterprises Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority Human Immunodeficiency Virus Tuberculosis Introduction Businesses can attain sustainable competitive advantage by utilizing Information Technology
Premium Mobile phone Mobile network operator Tourism