Pui Ying College
First Examination (2002-2003)
F.6 Computer Applications Paper I
Marking Scheme
1 (a) Ready-made application package : Ready to use and relatively
cheaper
Custom-made application : No redundancy or lack of functions, and
better design (of reports, layout view, etc)
1 (b) Ready-made application package
Because one month’s time is not enough for developing a
custom-made application
2 (a) Adv : no learning for human
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Disadv : long calibration time (the system needs to learn the voice and 1
tone of the user), or too many characters of the same pronunciation
2 (b) Recognize several characters together instead of a single character
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according to the database containing the phrases
3 (a) Each computer has its own internal code (BIG-5) for the character
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made  not compatible
The 裏’s BIG-5 code in computer A may represent another character 1
or blank in computer B
3 (b) 產 : 卜竹竹手一
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函 : 弓山水
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鼎 : 月山女一中
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3 (c) The coding scheme does not follow the natural stroke sequence.
Dayi input method.
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File management: To perform file operations such as copying,
deleting, renaming, and to manage directories.
e.g. Windows File Explorer
Virus protection: To scan and kill viruses, and to protect the system
from virus infection.
e.g. Norton Anti-virus
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Process management: To load, run and set priorities of jobs
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Memory management: To allocate memory resources to running jobs
File I/O: To control file input and output operations
Device I/O: To control the input and output operations of peripheral
devices
GUI stands for Graphical User Interface and it is the interface
between the user and the computer.
Adv: with GUI, no command should be recited and the user only click
on the icon which implies the meaning to execute the command.
Disadv: GUI requires a relatively high performance computer to
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process the graphics.
7 (a) NotePad
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7 (b) Drawing tables, inserting cliparts
7 (c) It is used for quick and simple editing of text file where no format is
needed. An example can be writing source programs.
8 (a) Merge printing
Choose Merge Print from the Tool menu.
Create Mailing Labels
Open the data source by selecting File A.
Edit the mailing label by inserting the name and address field into
suitable positions.
Merge to a new document and the mailing labels are created.
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8 (b) MS Excel file
8 (c) Auto-correct,
use for correcting common careless typing mistakes
like ‘teh’  ‘the’
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9 (a) E3= IF(B3<200000,0.2,IF(B3<=300000,0.15,0.1))
E5= B3*B4
E6= LOOKUP(B5,A21:A25,B21:B25)
E7= E5*E6
E8= B3*(E3+E4)
E9= E7–E8
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9 (b) A9=IF(OR(ISBLANK(B3),ISBLANK(B4),ISBLANK(B5)),”Missing
data”,””)
9 (c) (i) Enter 3.5% in Cell B4
Enter “Video tape” in Cell B5
(ii) Goal Seek
Select Goal Seek from the Tool menu.
Enter E9 as the goal cell.
Enter 25000 as the goal value.
Enter B3 as the variable cell.
After seeking, the answer should be the integer which is just larger
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than the value of B3.
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