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Information Technology

Six Weekly Test

Grade 10

Duration: 90 minutes

Name: _______________________________________

Teacher: ________________________________________

READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY

1. This paper consists of THIRTY-FOUR questions.

2. Candidates MUST answer ALL questions

3. Total mark is 65.

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

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Section 1 – Multiple Choices

[30 marks]
Instruction: Each question in this section has four suggested answers lettered (A), (B), (C),
(D). Read each item you are about to answer and decide which choice is best.

1. Which of the following items are

6. Which of the following types of
considered computer hardware?
technologies is commonly used by
a. Data
banks to read data on cheques?
b. Programs
a. POS
c. Output devices
b. OCR
d. Operating systems
c. OMR
d. MICR
2. Data that has been processed and has
meaning is termed
7. Which of the following is NOT a
a. Information n
hardware component of a computer
b. Database
system?
c. Storage
a. Data file
d. Output
b. Main memory
c. Peripheral device
3. Which of the following devices is
d. Central processing unit
used to input data into the computer?
a. Mouse
8. In order to use a program stored on a
b. Monitor
flash drive, the program must be
c. USB flash drive
transferred into
d. External hard drive
a. ROM
b. RAM
c. PROM
Item 4 refers to the following symbol
d. EPROM

9. Which part of the central processing

unit (CPU) coordinates its activities?
a. Register
b. Control unit
4. The symbol represents
c. Main memory
a. LAN
d. Arithmetic logic unit
b. Wi-Fi
c. Hotspot
10. Keyboards, speakers and CD drives
d. Bluetooth
are
a. Peripheral devices
5. Which of the following shows an
b. Storage devices
increase in computer memory
c. Output devices
capacity?
d. Input devices
a. Terabyte → Gigabyte →
Megabyte
11. Scanning an item at a computerized
b. Gigabyte → Kilobyte →
checkout station in a supermarket is
Megabyte
an example of
c. Megabyte → Terabyte →
a. Input
Gigabyte
b. Output
d. Megabyte → Gigabyte →
c. Storing
Terabyte
d. Processing
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12. Which of the following has the 18. Which of the following operations is
largest data storage capacity? considered a feature of a biometric
a. Optical drive system?
b. USB flash drive a. Matching fingerprints
c. Flash memory card b. Detecting irregular heartbeats
d. Hard drive c. Diagnosing medical symptoms
d. Helping to lubricate skeletal
13. A diskette is divided into a number joints
of concentric circles called
a. Tracks 19. Which of the following input devices
b. Sectors is commonly used in supermarkets to
c. Clusters retrieve the price of an item?
d. Cylinders a. Bar Code Reader (BCR)
b. Optical Mark Reader (OMR)
14. Which of the following is detected c. Magnetic Ink Chara (MICR)
by the use of a pressure sensor? d. Optical Character Reader (OCR)
a. Motion
b. Light 20. Which of the following chips can be
c. Weight erased and reprogrammed
d. Warmth repeatedly?
a. EPROM
15. Which of the following components b. PROM
is used by the CPU to temporarily c. ROM
store data? d. RAM
a. Track
b. Sector 21. Which of the following computer
c. Buffer devices communicates information to
d. Cylinder the user?
a. Input
16. The primary storage device that b. Output
holds the data currently being c. Storage
processed by the computer is known d. Processing
as the
a. Read only memory (ROM) 22. Concentric circles on a hard disk are
b. Programmable ROM (PROM) referred to as
c. Random access memory (RAM) a. Buffer
d. Erasable and programmable b. Cylinder
ROM c. Sectors
d. Tracks
17. Which of the following tasks is NOT
a function of the control unit (CU)? 23. Sequential access is the method used
a. Performing arithmetic operations to retrieve data
b. Reading and interpreting a. In the order it was sorted
machine instructions b. By going directly to it
c. Coordinating the operation of the c. From floppy disks
internal registers d. When needed
d. Controlling the sequencing of
machine instructions 24. Heat sensors are used for detecting
a. Activity
b. Light
c. Temperature
d. Weight
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25. Which of the following is MOST 29. Which input device is MOST likely
suitable for printing building plans? used to control the lighting in the
a. Plotter room?
b. Laser Printer a. Sensor
c. Dot-Matrix Printer b. Remote
d. Thermal Transfer Printer c. Scanner
d. Keyboard
26. Which of the following primary
storage devices can be programmed 30. Which of the following lists is
only once? arranged starting from BEST to
a. RAM WORST print quality?
b. PROM a. Laser, dot matrix, inkjet
c. EPROM b. Inkjet, dot-matrix, laser
d. EEPROM c. Laser, inkjet, dot-matrix
d. Dot-matrix, ink jet, laser
27. A wedge-shaped slice on a disk is
referred to as a
a. Buffer
b. Cylinder
c. Sector
d. Track

28. Which of the following units

performs mathematical calculations?
a. Control
b. Fetch
c. Arithmetic and logic
d. Central processing
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Section 2
Short Answer Questions
Answer All questions

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