Edexcel ICT Insider

Kay likes to listen to music. (a) Kay connects her smartphone to her home entertainment system. (i) Explain one advantage of connecting her smartphone to her home entertainment system. (2) Connecting her smartphone to her home entertainment system can enhance the quality sound because the speaker are better and can produce loud, rich sound. (ii) Give two other types of device that Kay could connect to her smartphone. (2) 1 Smartwatch 2 Smart TV (b) Explain one benefit to Kay's lifestyle of being able to listen to audio streamed online, rather than downloading it. (2) Kay can listen music live or on the go because streaming does not require lots of storage. (c) Explain one drawback to musicians of sharing their music online. (2) Musicians can lose revenue from sales because the music can be copied or pirated. (d) Explain one drawback of using cloud storage to back up a digital film library. (2) Uploads will take a long time because bandwidth is limited and file sizes of movies can b...

Kay uses the Internet to work from home. (a) Kay does not have to waste time travelling to work. Describe one other positive impact the Internet has on how Kay works. (2) The Internet is always available so Kay can work at times suitable to her. (b) When Kay logs on to a browser application at home she sees the bookmarks that she saved when she was in the office. Describe how this is made possible. (2) The use of the same account and user profile makes synchronizing data possible. (c) Which one of these is the role of an ISP? (1) A Connects webpages to intermediate servers B Gives users access to the Internet C Prevents security leaks of company information D Sets up a portal for immediate access B Gives users access to the Internet (d) Complete the description of a secure password. (2) A secure password should use a minimum of eight ................... and a mixture of ................... and .................... A secure password should use a minimum of eight characters and a mi...

Kay can access goods and services online. (a) Online transactions can be tracked. Which one of these is used for transaction tracking? (1) A Authentication B Backups C Cookies D Debit cards C Cookies (b) One type of online service is education and training. (i) Give one other type of online service. (1) Booking train tickets, airline tickets and bus tickets can be other type of online service. (ii) List two features of a virtual learning environment (VLE). (2) 1 A wall or timeline similar to those on social networking communities that contains posts by teachers and students. 2 Tools for submitting assignments. (c) Which one of these describes people who are 'information poor'? (1) A Limited access to technology B Phishing victims C Rural communities using 4G technology D Write access, rather than read access A Limited access to technology (d) Describe two positive impacts of the Internet on organizations. (4) 1 Organizations can communicate and interact with their customers and...

Kay uses a range of software. (a) State the type of utility software that prevents data from being understood without using a key. (1) Encryption prevents data from being understood without using a key. (b) State one reason why data is compressed before being transferred across a network. (1) Data is compressed to reduce the original size before being transferred across a network so that it can be sent more quickly. (c) Describe how utility software can reduce access times for large files stored on magnetic media. (2) Defragmentation reorder the fragments of data so that they are stored as close to each other as possible and speed up the system. (d) State two types of application software. (2) 1 Word processing software to create documents that mostly include words, but also some images. 2 Spreadsheet software to do calculations. (e) Which one of these identifies how OMR recognises text? (1) A Magnetic B Online C Optical D Random C Optical (f) Describe how application software is dif...

Kay works from home. She uses ICT for business and entertainment. Kay uses a laptop for work. (a) Which one of these features would be improved if she used a desktop replacement? (1) A User interface B Energy consumption C Portability D Performance D Performance (b) Which one of these could prevent the risk to Kay's work data caused by accidental deletion? (1) A Anti-malware B Backup C Encryption D Phishing B Backup (c) Kay makes copies of her work files. One reason magnetic tape is used for this is because it can store more data than other storage media. Explain one other reason magnetic tape is a good choice. (2) Magnetic tape can be re-used many times and is also portable so Kay can secure backups outside the office. (d) Kay often prints her work. (i) Describe how an inkjet printer works. (2) A motor moves a nozzle print head across the page. Ink is sprayed on to the page through the nozzle. (ii) A printer has 32MiB of cache memory. Construct an expression to show how many bits ...