A small school wants to move teacher gradebooks from paper to an electronic system so teachers can share marks and produce reports faster. Which best describes this change?

• Computer Science development
  

• Information Technology implementation
  

• Social media adoption
  

• Hardware repair

A company uses an online form to collect customer feedback, stores responses in a database, and runs analysis to improve service. Which element of IT is primarily being used?

• Hardware only

• data collection and software processing.

• Electrical engineering

• Mechanical processes

An IT system must ensure only authorised staff can view student records. Which IT concern is this?

• Portability

• Usability

• Security (confidentiality)

• Affordability

A rural health clinic uses mobile phones to send vaccination reminders and keeps patient lists on paper. Moving to an electronic system will MOST improve:

• Aesthetics

• Accessibility of patient data

• Hardware resale value

• Paper usage only

Which best illustrates the “people” component of an IT system?

• Printer model number

• Network cable length

• System administrator setting user permissions

• Hard drive capacity

A teacher uses a spreadsheet to calculate class averages and then emails results to students. This demonstrates IT used to:

• Manufacture hardware

• Process information and communicate results

• Replace human teachers entirely

• Create video games

A national weather service needs to run highly complex climate models that require intensive numeric computation. Which system is most suitable?

• Desktop PC

• Supercomputer

• Tablet

• POS terminal

A bank runs thousands of transactions for many users simultaneously and requires high reliability and large storage. Which system fits?

• Mainframe

• Handheld calculator

• Laptop

• Gaming console

A university department wants a server to host student timetables and departmental files for several dozen staff and students. Which is most cost-effective?

• Supercomputer

• Minicomputer / midrange server

• Smartphone

• Graphing calculator

Which statement correctly orders systems by portability (most → least)?

• Desktop → Laptop → Tablet → Supercomputer

• Tablet → Laptop → Desktop → Mainframe
  

• Supercomputer → Mainframe → Laptop → Mobile phone

• Mobile phone → Laptop → Desktop → Mainframe