Question 1, November 2021, Pearson Edexcel International GCSE (9-1) Information and Communication Technology, Paper-1

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 are in 32MiB. (3)

1 byte = 8 bits

1 MiB = 1024 x 1024 bytes

32 MiB = 1024 x 1024 x 32 x 8 bits

= 268, 435, 456 bits

(iii) State the output device that would produce this object. (1)

3D printer would produce this object.


(e) Draw one straight line from each characteristic to the correct hardware. (3)




(f) Complete the labelling of this image of a storage device. (3)



(g) Explain one benefit of increasing the size of RAM in a laptop. (2)

More applications can be run at once because more instructions can be stored in memory locations.


(h) Explain why print spooling is necessary. (2)

Large amount of data is sent to the printer. But printer's memory is small hence why spooling is needed.

(Total for Question 1 = 20 marks)

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