Key Stage 5 ICT

Unit 1 – The Paper Based Exam

Unit 1 is a paper-based exam that you will sit in January of year 13 (2021). The exam is traditional pen and paper and is the only exposure to this type of exam you will have on this BTEC ICT course. The content of the exam is vast in terms of IT knowledge but above all else, the key is application. To start you off on some independent learning for this exam, this pack includes some slides related to one of the topics you will look at, as well past paper questions based around that topic. Where possible, please return the completed questions to your class teachers.

The first topic that you are going to look at is: Morals and Ethics.

This is an important aspect of ICT and the impact grows ever larger as we move more and more of our lives online. This topic is large but broadly strips down into 3 sections:

• Things that are illegal to do concerning a computing • Things that are legal but immoral to do • Things that affect the environment

There are of course, positivise and negatives to the use of computers in our lives and good responses to these questions provide a balanced view when applied. For example, moving to a streaming service is good for the environment as less plastics are used to create what would be the cases and disks. However, the internet uses energy to maintain servers’ businesses who produced the disks and cases will go out of business. On the next few pages are slides that are used to teach this topic in lesson. Please make notes as you see fit and then attempt the questions that follow – these have been taken from the past papers.

Flowcharts

Learning Intentions

• To know what components make up flow charts.

• To understand how to follow and interpret a flow chart.

• To be able to create a flow chart for a given scenario.

June 2019

What is a disadvantage of a Wiki?

State an advantage of outsourcing data backup?

What are the 3 types of backup?

What is an advantage of biometric access?

What factors affect someone’s decisions with

buying broadband?What is a PAN?

What is latency? What is a firewall? State a disadvantage of outsourcing data backup?

Name a piece of legislation to do with computers and

their usage?

What is bandwidth and name 2 factors that can affect it?

Describe open source vs closed source.

Recall Question Grid

When chosen, you are going to select one of the boxes from the board and answer the question inside it. It will be your choice unless the

teacher says otherwise.

What is a consumer panel, what is an advantage of

them?

What is an advantage of an online survey to collect data?

What is a disadvantage of doing a questionnaire with

pen and paper?

What is a disadvantage of an interview?

Describe a graphical user interface, what are the

advantages and disadvantages of it?

What are the different hats of hacking?

What is an advantage of collecting data via a sensor?

How do we turn data to information?

What is a disadvantage of collecting data via a sensor?

Describe a command line interface, what are the

advantages and disadvantages of it?

What is a disadvantage of collecting data via email?

Name a feature of anti-virus software.

Recall Question Grid 2

When chosen, you are going to select one of the boxes from the board and answer the question inside it. It will be your choice unless the

teacher says otherwise.

Activity 1 - Making ToastUsing your wipeboards, create a set of instructions for making someone toast given these items. You will have to find out whether or not they want white or brown bread, how many slices (maximum of 4). What setting they want the toaster on (1-5), and do

they want butter?

Flowcharts

• Flowcharts are used to provide a visualisation of a problem, the idea of them is that they are linearly followed and easy to interpret for people who don’t have the technical understanding.

The Symbols

TERMINATOR PROCESS

DECISION INPUT or OUTPUT

The Terminator

• The terminator is the start and end of any program.

• The start symbol can only have one arrow leading away from it.

• This is ALWAYS a rounded rectangle.

TERMINATOR

The Process Box

• The process box is used when something happens, normally as a result of something in the program.

• This symbol can only have one arrow leading away from it, but can have more than one going into it.

• This is ALWAYS a rectangle.

PROCESS

The Decision Box

• The decision box is used when a question can be asked in a program, such as an IF…ELSE statement.

• This can have many arrows going into it, but only ever has TWO leaving – YES and NO (or TRUE and FALSE).

• This is ALWAYS a diamond.

DECISION

The Input/Output (I/O) Box

• The I/O box is used when a question is asked to the user, or something is printed on the screen.

• This can have many arrows going into it, but only ever has one leaving.

• This is ALWAYS a parallelogram.

INPUT or OUTPUT

Activity 2 - Making ToastUsing your wipeboards, create a set of instructions for making someone toast given these items. You will have to find out whether or not they want white or brown bread, how many slices (maximum of 4). What setting they want the toaster on (1-5), and do

they want butter?

Flowchart at the board

Interpreting Flow Charts• As well as creating flow charts you can be expected to

interpret them. The blocks don’t change and you are likely to be given some information and then asked what is the outcome given these inputs.

Activity 3 - Interpreting Flow Chart

Questions1. Determine Whether a Temperature is Below or Above the

Freezing Point

2. Draw a flowchart to add two numbers entered by user.

3. Draw a flowchart to log in to a Instagram account

4. Your flowchart must ask the user their age. If they are under the age of 3, tell them they’re a baby. If they are between 3 and 18, tell them they’re a child. If they’re over 18, call them an adult.

• Determine Whether A Student Passed the Exam or Not:

• Algorithm:

• Step 1: Input grades of 4 courses M1, M2, M3 and M4,

• Step 2: Calculate the average grade with formula "Grade=(M1+M2+M3+M4)/4"

• Step 3: If the average grade is less than 60, print "FAIL", else print "PASS".

Interpreting Flowcharts