Colombo International School

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Year 11

Mock Examination - Paper 2

Saturday, 26th March 2011 Duration: 3 hours

Name in full : .. Class : ..

Mark your teachers name with a X Mrs Anishka Gopinath Mr. Ajith Karunarathna Mr.Chapa Gunathilake
Material required for examination Items included with question papers Pen or pencil, short treasury tag and Cover sheet

Ms. Dilshara Weerasinghe

Data files: Gift ideas folder which contains the following images

Gifts.jpeg
logo.jpeg resources for homepage1.jpeg resources for homepage2.jpeg resources for homepage3.jpeg resources for homepage4.jpeg resources for homepage5.jpeg giftwrap.jpeg giftwrap2.jpeg logo1.jpeg Gift ideas 1 Gift ideas 2 ICT Mock Practical Examination

Gift ideas 3 Gift ideas 4 Gift ideas 5 Gift ideas 6 Gift ideas 7 Gift ideas 8 Gift ideas 9 Gift ideas 10 Happy Birthday.MP3 Jingle Bells.MP3

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Instructions to Candidates
Complete your candidate details on the cover sheet provided. At the end of the examination use a treasury tag to attach your printouts to Page 2 of the cover sheet.

Information for Candidates Advice to Candidates

There are four activities in this examination paper totaling 80marks. The marks for the parts of tasks are shown in round brackets: e.g. (2). Read through the instructions on Page 2. Attempt ALL activities. Take breaks away from the computer from time to time. Label your printouts clearly as instructed in each task.

Instructions to candidates This paper consists of four activities. Work through the tasks in each activity in order. Do not spend too much time on each activity. The marks for each activity are as follows:

Activity Marks 1 2 3 4 Using art/imaging and graphics software Using web authoring software using Desktop publishing and Word processing software Using multimedia software Total marks 17 20 20 23 80

For all activities, you may also need to use word processing software. Labelling and Printing of Tasks For all tasks, you MUST enter your name, candidate number BEFORE PRINTING as instructed in the tasks. For all tasks, you MUST enter the task number as instructed.
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Case study

Gift inspiration delivery service

Gift inspiration is a delivery service of gifts to your loved ones on a special occasion owned and operated by Peterson Trading Limited, a privately owned UK company established in 1998. We do our best to deliver quality gifts and the best possible service. We source the finest local and UK products, together with the best from Europe, the Commonwealth and the rest of the world. We employ local people, use recycled packaging wherever possible and aim to make a positive contribution in everything we do. All of the quality gifts, featured on Gift inspiration are in stock at our own purpose built warehouse in Somerset, ready to be carefully packed and delivered for you to any UK address. You will find our full contact details on this and every page of the Giftinspiration.com website. How to order Gifts Order online by clicking the 'Buy this' button on the gifts and hampers you would like to send. Do this to select as many gifts as you wish and when you have completed your selection, click 'Checkout' to be guided through our quick, easy and secure online order process. If you make a mistake or wish to remove something, simply click 'View/Edit' in 'Your Basket' (featured at the top right of every page) - this allows you to edit your selection. You can also order by telephone on +44 (0)1458 270911 (9am to 5pm UK time Monday to Friday). We welcome orders from anywhere in the world (for delivery in the UK). In these cases your credit or debit card company will convert the cost of your order into your local currency at their exchange rate. Gift Wrap Service Giftinspiration offer a quality gift wrap service for just 1.95 per gift. Choose this option when you order gifts at Giftinspiration.com the UK Gift Service and your gift will be beautifully gift wrapped in tissue, premium quality giftwrap and two organza ribbons. We also add a free hand written gift card featuring your personal greeting. Gifts are then carefully packed in secure outer packaging to ensure safe delivery to the recipient. Guaranteed and Tracked Gift Delivery to any UK address We deliver thousands of Gift and Hamper parcels throughout the UK using our tried and tested specialist couriers. All our deliveries are tracked to ensure secure and prompt delivery to the recipient. Next Working Day/Specific Date delivery is 5.95 and can deliver on any working day following the day of despatch. Standard Delivery is just 3.95 and usually delivers within 2 to 4 working days. We deliver gifts to any address in the United Kingdom, including Northern Ireland, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.

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Activity 1- Using art/imaging and graphics software DO NOT SPEND TOO LONG ON THIS ACTIVITY Task AG1 Open a suitable Art package. Open the graphic Gifts.jpg. This shows two of the gift containers widely used by Gift Inspiration.

a) Select and crop an area from the graphic. It must include: The weighing scale The label SMEG The opened package on the right side (1) b) Resize the image by assigning the width as 400 pixels and height as 600 pixels. (1) c) The original image was captured at one of the Gift Inspiration warehouses. Using this information: I. Compose a suitable caption (1) II. Insert the caption in the top half of the picture; make sure the colour, size and position of the caption give maximum visibility. (2) d) There is a label with the caption SMEG I. Alter the picture so that the caption SMEG is no longer visible. Make sure the shading of the background is unchanged. (2) Replace SMEG with Gift and Hampers. Make sure the colour of text is red and the font size is 30pt. (2)

II.

SAVE the graphic as AG1. DO NOT PRINT at this stage.

(Total for Task AG1: 9 marks)

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Task AG2 Open a new A4 document using word processing software: enter Tasks AG1 and AG2 in the header enter your name, candidate number and centre number in the footer of the document

save the document as ACTIVITY 1

a) Import your graphic AG1 into the document. It should occupy 60% of height of the page and should have the same aspect ratio as it had in the Art package. (1) b) The Gift Inspirations promotions Manager has suggested that the AG1 graphic would make a good full page background for a leaflet showing the goods and services provided within UK and around the world.
I.

State why AG1, in its current state, would not make a good background. (1) State two operations you could perform on the original picture to make it usable as a background. (2)

II.

c) Open the graphic logo .jpg on to a suitable art package with the intension of creating a company Logo. I. Crop the rose with the leaves. Paste the selected area on to a new art document. (2) II. Add a suitable caption. Resize the image 200 pixels by 200 pixels. Save it as AG2. (1) III. Import the graphic AG2 into the bottom of Activity1 word processing document.
(1)

Resave the word processing document as ACTIVITY 1. PRINT a copy of the document.

(Total for Task AG1: 8 marks) TOTAL FOR ACTIVITY 1: 17 MARKS

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Activity 2 Using DTP/WP software Task DP1 Gift Inspiration Delivery service wants to produce a promotional leaflet. The leaflet will be one double-sided A4 sheet folded to give four A5 pages. It will be distributed along with gifts that are being delivered and in public places such as super markets and shopping malls. Your task is to design and produce the two inside pages of the leaflet. You will need graphics from the folder gift ideas. Open a new A4 landscape DTP/WP document: enter your name, candidate number, centre number and DP1 in the footer of the document save the document as DP1 (a) Create the two inside pages of the leaflet. (i) Format your page into two equal columns. (ii) Create a frame that occupies the width of the first column and is 4 cm high. (iii) Insert the text Gift ideas into the frame. (iv) Insert the company logo from the file LOGO into this frame. Make sure that the logo is completely visible. (1) (1) (1) (1)

(b) Identify a target audience for the promotional leaflet. Select content which would be appropriate for this group.The leaflet must contain: (i) a minimum of two graphics from the folder gift ideas in addition to the logo (ii) a minimum of two facts that give information about gift inspirations (you may select this information from the scenario) (2) (1)

(iii) a minimum of two facts that give information about the gift items

(2)

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You may use this space to sketch a design for the rest of the inside of the leaflet. You do not need to submit your sketch design. There are no marks allocated for the sketched design.

(c) Complete the two inside pages of the leaflet. Use the facilities of your software to make the leaflet fit for purpose as a promotional leaflet. Consider: text flow manipulation of graphics: o size o layout (for example to allow text wrapping) formatting: o appropriate and consistent fonts o consistent paragraphs and justification (4)

enter your name, candidate number, centre number and DP1 in the footer of the document resave the document as DP1. Print a copy of the document on one A4 sheet

(Total for task DP1: 13 marks)

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38 Task DP2 Open a new A4 document using word processing software: enter DP2 in the header enter your name, candidate number, centre number and DP1 in the footer of the document save the document as DP2 (a) The promotional leaflet is aimed at a target audience. (i) State, with a reason, who you think your target audience is. (1) (ii) Explain two features of your pages which would attract the target audience. (4) (b) Suggest two improvement you could make to the pages if you had more time. (2)

(Total for task DP2: 7 marks) TOTAL FOR ACTIVITY 2: 20 MARKS

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Activity 3 Using Web authoring software Task WA1 Gift inspiration maintains an effective website for their order and delivery services. However some of the web pages are still at the designing stage. The Home page too is still under construction. Your task is to produce the home page for the website. This page must be designed to be printed on a single side of A4 page. You will need graphics from the folder gift ideas
Open an A4 Landscape web page Enter your name and candidate number WA1 at the bottom of the page. Save the page as activity 3A

a. Create the web site home page using the activity 3A page. i. Create 3 frames or other division such as a table on top of the page, that occupies the width of the page and is 4 cm high. This division should contain 3 sections/columns (2) ii. Insert the title Gift Inspiration in to the middle section/ cell with appropriate text formatting suitable for a title. (2) iii. Resave the web page b. Open the image logo.jpeg from the gift ideas folder using any image processing software. i. Insert the image in logo.jpeg in to the left hand side section/cell created in part a ii. Insert the image logo1.jpeg in to the right hand side section/cell created in part a iii. Resave the web page.

(1) (1)

c. Carefully consider the target audience and the purpose of the website.Create the rest of the main page using i. ii. At least 3 graphics from the folder gift ideas A section that given information about an introduction on the worldwide service (You may use the introductory section of the case study as appropriate) iii. (2) (3)

A navigation system for the rest of the parts of the web site. (Consider the main sections of the case study scenario as the main sections for the web site) (2)

Resave the page Activity 3A Print the web page

(Total for task WA1: 13 marks)

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Task WA2
Open an A4 Landscape web page Enter your name , candidate number, centre number and W2 at the bottom of the page. Save the page as activity 3B

a. insert a table of 2 rows and 2 columns in to the web page b. use the 1st row of the table to insert the logo used for the previous task and the title Gift Wrap Service

(2)

(2)

c. use the 2nd row, 1st column of the table to insert the a suitable description about the gift wrap service (use scenario) d. insert a Hyperlink as Go to Home Page in order to navigate to the home page (1) (1)

e. use the 2nd row, 2nd column of the table to insert a thumbnail version of the image giftwrap.jpg or giftwrap2.jpg (The image should be opened with the original size when clicked on the image) (1) f. do appropriate page formatting to make the page look neater. g. Resave the web page.
Resave the page Activity 3B Print the web page

(Total for task WA2: 7 marks) TOTAL FOR ACTIVITY 3: 20 MARKS

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Activity 4 Using Multimedia software Task MM1 You are required to create a multimedia presentation for Gift Inspiration to promote their business. The presentation will be run on LED screens in main cities and public places such as railway stations. You should create a four slide presentation which start with a Master Slide and followed by a Title slide and two other information slides. The expected contents of the slides are as follows. Master Slide Title Slide Other Slides - Gift Inspiration logo from the gift ideas folder & a Suitable caption - A suitable title, a picture & suitable sub titles to represent other slides - Titles, Images & relevant information use images provided in the gift ideas folder.

1. Use a suitable presentation software to create the master slide with, a. A LOGO b. Heading or the Presentation Save your presentation 2. Create a title slide with, a. A suitable title b. An Image c. Titles of other two slide as bulleted points d. Apply animation effects for each item you include Save your presentation 3. Create 3rd and 4th slides with the following information a. Titles should be the sub topics used in slide 2 with artistic text b. Brief description of each topic c. Two images should be, i. One right to the text information ii. Other left to the text information d. Date & time should be included in header or footer e. An action button should be included in the last slide to move to the first slide

(1) (1)

(1) (1) (1) (2)

(1) (1)

(1) (1) (1) (1)

Save your presentation and get a handout view printout of all the slides you created with your name and MM1 are in the header

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Task MM1 Open word processing software Create a new document Insert your name in header and current date in footer 1. Copy the title slide from the presentation into the document a. Apply a border around your slide b. Use a text box below the slide to explain any features that you have applied on the slide (1) 2. Apply slide transition to your presentation a. Run the presentation, and make a screenshot to view the transition effect you applied b. Copy the screenshot into your document c. Name and describe the transition effect you used below the screen shot 3. Print your two page document (1) (1) (1)

(1)

(Total for task MM1: 18 marks)

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Task MM2 Open a suitable audio editing software Import files Happy Birthday.mp3 and Jingle Bells .mp3 and do the following a. Remove first half of the Happy Birthday.mp3 which has very low sound level (1) b. Combine the edited sound file above with the Jingle Bells.mp3 (2) c. Name the edited sound file as AudioClip and get a screen shot of the edited file when it is opened in sound editing software d. Show a screen shot once you combine the two sound files (1) Import Audio Clip to your multimedia presentation in order to play it throughout the presentation.

(Total for task MM2: 5 marks) TOTAL FOR ACTIVITY 4: 23 MARKS

TOTAL FOR PAPER: 80 MARKS END

For Examiners use only Activity 1 2 3 4 Total Final mark /80 /100 Marks

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