WorksheetsYEAR 9 ICT EXAMINATION AUTUMN TERM
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 34mins
Name
Class
Date
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YOUR NAME
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1. Which one of these helps you to search the internet?
a)
(a) Word
b)
(b) Spreadsheet
c)
(c) Google
d)
(d) Email
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2. Computers all around the world are linked together. This network of computers is called the:
a)
(a) Database
b)
(b) BBC
c)
(c) ITV
d)
(d) Internet
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3. This quiz is made by Education Quizzes. Their ___ address is: http://www.educationquizzes.com
a)
(a) Postal
b)
(b) Web
c)
(c) Postcode
d)
(d) Phone
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4. Just like a book, the Education Quizzes website has different _____.
a)
(a) Songs
b)
(b) Walls
c)
(c) Pages
d)
(d) Stairs
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5. What does www stand for?
a)
(a) World Wide Web
b)
(b) Whole World Wide
c)
(c) West World Web
d)
(d) Where When Why
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6. Sam’s mum is using the internet. She wants to find out what is on at the cinema. She says she will find out ______.
a)
(a) Offline
b)
(b) Online
c)
(c) Outline
d)
(d) Inline
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7. Sam’s mum is using her computer. But she says, “The internet has stopped working. The line must be ____.”
a)
(a) Up
b)
(b) Down
c)
(c) Cold
d)
(d) Hot
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8. Sam uses the internet to help him to ________
a)
(a) Do his homework.
b)
(b) Play outside.
c)
(c) Eat his dinner.
d)
(d) Go to sleep.
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9. You are on the Education Quizzes _______.
a)
(a) Table
b)
(b) Newspaper
c)
(c) Book
d)
(d) Website
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10. Sam is at school. He wants to find out when the Battle of Hastings happened. He types Battle of Hastings and presses:
a)
(a) Delete
b)
(b) Forward
c)
(c) Search
d)
(d) Reply
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11. All the following are features of the new economy except.
a)
(a) It is digital
b)
(b) Time, space and distance is irrelevant
c)
(c) It is technology driven
d)
(d) It is labour based
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12. _____ is an example of the old economy
a)
(a) Online shopping
b)
(b) Online transfer
c)
(c) Trade by barter
d)
(d) Bank transfer
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13. The new economy is the era of _____
a)
(a) Computing
b)
(b) Typing
c)
(c) laying
d)
(d) manual
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14. The investment in the office and in the business information system was low in the ___ economy.
a)
(a) New
b)
(b) Old
c)
(c) Latest
d)
(d) Good
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15. In developed countries, people use the internet to find prices of _____.
a)
(a) Goods
b)
(b) Man
c)
(c) Books
d)
(d) Pens
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16. The difference between technologically – rich and technologically- poor countries are referred to as ____
a)
(a) International divide
b)
(b) National divide
c)
(c) Local divide
d)
(d) Special divide
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17. In developed countries, people can use the internet to locate___
a)
(a) Jobs
b)
(b) Man
c)
(c) food
d)
(d) Pens
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18. The new economy is the era of ____
a)
(a) Laying
b)
(b) Manual
c)
(c) Computing
d)
(d) Typing
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19. There is a very big gap between industrialized and developing countries in terms of access to ____
a)
(a) TCL
b)
(b) ICT
c)
(c) TTC
d)
(d) CTI
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20. The digital divide between those who have access to information and those without in a society is called _____
a)
(a) Classical divide
b)
(b) Social divide
c)
(c) Internet divide
d)
(d) People divide
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21. Which of the following types of information could you store in a database?
a)
(a) Information about different products, including descriptions and prices
b)
(b) Information about all of the pupils in a school, including name, date of birth and address
c)
(c) Information about different countries, including population, climate and language
d)
(d) All of the above
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22. In a database about planets, all of the information about Mars would be held on what?
a)
(a) A field
b)
(b) A report
c)
(c) A record
d)
(d) A graph
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23. Each record on a database has several different what?
a)
(a) Different fields
b)
(b) Different yards
c)
(c) Different graphs
d)
(d) Different coordinates
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24. What is a database search called?
a)
(a) A quest
b)
(b) A query
c)
(c) An inquest
d)
(d) An answer
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25. Imagine an animal database in which each record has these fields: number of legs, habitat, lifespan, diet. Which of the following pieces of information could NOT be found out from the database?
a)
(a) Whether the animal is a reptile
b)
(b) Whether the animal inhabits grassland
c)
(c) Whether the animal eats mice
d)
(d) Whether the animal has four legs
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26. Which database might you use to help you find your next library book?
a)
(a) An encyclopedia
b)
(b) A journal
c)
(c) A magazine
d)
(d) A catalogue
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27. Which fields would you expect to find in a database of library books?
a)
(a) Author, title, whether your best friend liked the book
b)
(b) Author, title, colour of cover, book condition, how long it will take to read
c)
(c) Author, title, genre, number of pages, location
d)
(d) Author and title only
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28. If you had a database for the children in your class and you wanted to organize the list of children by date of birth, you would instruct the database to do what?
a)
(a) Sort
b)
(b) Randomise
c)
(c) Alphabetise
d)
(d) Save
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29. A planet database could be organized in which of the following ways?
a)
(a) By distance from the sun, in ascending numerical order
b)
(b) By distance from the sun, in alphabetical order
c)
(c) By time taken to orbit, in alphabetical order
d)
(d) All of the above
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30. What is another name for the information held in a database?
a)
(a) IQ
b)
(b) Data
c)
(c) Snippets
d)
(d) Job
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31. Database management system (DBMS) is a commonly used database____.
a)
(a) Language
b)
(b) Term
c)
(c) Means
d)
(d) Word
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32. Files, records, fields, and characters are the contents of a ____.
a)
(a) File
b)
(b) Record
c)
(c) Database
d)
(d) Computer
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33. The smallest unit of data that the computer can recognize is called _____.
a)
(a) Bit
b)
(b) File
c)
(c) Unit
d)
(d) Numbers
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34. The combination of one or more characters is called ____.
a)
(a) Space
b)
(b) Field
c)
(c) Bit
d)
(d) Record
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35. The group of related field is called _____.
a)
(a) Record
b)
(b) Diary
c)
(c) note
d)
(d) data
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36. Another name for the key field is _____.
a)
(a) Junior key
b)
(b) Secondary key
c)
(c) Primary key
d)
(d) Ordinary key
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37. A data file is also called _____
a)
(a) File folder
b)
(b) Film
c)
(c) Record
d)
(d) Processor
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38. A collection of related records stored on a disk such as hard disk, CD-Rom, DVD-Rom is called____.
a)
(a) Folder file
b)
(b) Data file
c)
(c) Folder data
d)
(d) Data folder
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39. The traditional data file storage system that lacks the ability to interrelate data in an organized structure is called ______
a)
(a) File database
b)
(b) Relational database
c)
(c) Management database
d)
(d) Folder database
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40. Files that are organized in tables and relations are called_______
a)
(a) Flat database
b)
(b) Relational database
c)
(c) Network database
d)
(d) Distributed database.
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41. All the following are forms of database except
a)
(a) Relational
b)
(b) Network
c)
(c) Flat
d)
(d) Room
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42. The most common type of database structure is _____
a)
(a) Hierarchical
b)
(b) Relational
c)
(c) Network
d)
(d) Flat
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43. The database that is based on the same principles as hierarchical is ______
a)
(a) Flat
b)
(b) Relational
c)
(c) Distributed
d)
(d) Network
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44. Database management system (DBMS) control_____
a)
(a) Databases
b)
(b) Data file
c)
(c) Folder files
d)
(d) Data folder
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45. Another name for database software is ____
a)
(a) MBDs
b)
(b) DBMS
c)
(c) BMDs
d)
(d) DCBs
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46. Which is not a measure of storage size?
a)
(a) Megabyte
b)
(b) Gigabyte
c)
(c) Terabyte
d)
(d) Kilabyte
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47. Which is not a means of entering data into a computer?
a)
(a) Bar-code reader
b)
(b) Keyboard
c)
(c) Monitor
d)
(d) Scanner
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48. Data enters a computer .......
a)
(a) before processing but after the entry stage
b)
(b) during the entry stage
c)
(c) during the input stage
d)
(d) during the processing stage
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49. ____ are raw facts and figures.
a)
(a) Information
b)
(b) Meta
c)
(c) Data
d)
(d) Sata
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50. One of the sources of information is ______.
a)
(a) Water
b)
(b) Radio
c)
(c) Pen
d)
(d) Projector
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51. The data that has A-Z is called _____
a)
(a) Numeric data
b)
(b) Alphabetic data
c)
(c) Special character data
d)
(d) Alphanumeric data
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52. Which of the following refers to qualitative data?
a)
(a) Numbers of eggs
b)
(b) Amount of money
c)
(c) Favourite car
d)
(d) Age
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53. _____ is defined as processed data.
a)
(a) Technology
b)
(b) Data
c)
(c) Information
d)
(d) Internet
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54. Which of the following refers to quantitative data?
a)
(a) The colour of my car.
b)
(b) Number of students in your class
c)
(c) Your place of birth
d)
(d) Your favourite subject
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55. Data collected by someone other than the user is called____
a)
(a) Oral
b)
(b) Written
c)
(c) Visual
d)
(d) Sensory
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56. Which of the following is untrue about secondary data? _____
a)
(a) It is obtained after the event has happened by someone who was not present at the event.
b)
(b) It is quick source of information.
c)
(c) It is obtained at the time of an event.
d)
(d) Historical data is an example of secondary data.
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57. Which of the following is not a source of primary data? _____
a)
(a) Government report
b)
(b) Observation
c)
(c) Questionnaire
d)
(d) Interview
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58. Which of the following is not an example of graphic data?
a)
(a) Pictures
b)
(b) Camera images
c)
(c) Drawings
d)
(d) Audio
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59. Which of the following is not a way in which data can be classified? _____
a)
(a) Based on the form in which it exists.
b)
(b) Based on the time of occurrence.
c)
(c) Based on the user’s literacy.
d)
(d) Based on the frequency of occurrence.
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60. Which of the following is not a form of data?
a)
(a) Quartet data
b)
(b) Audio data
c)
(c) String data
d)
(d) Numerical data
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1. What is the internet?
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2. Name and describe any five internet terminologies.
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3. Explain with examples the concept of search engine?
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4. Describe the concept of the digital divide. b. List three aspects of the digital divide.
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5. What is a database?
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6. List and explain the two forms of the database.
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