Ella Jade Mawdsley

LEVEL 2 BTEC IT

Unit 1: The Online World

Section 1
This test relates to Section 1 of unit 1 The Online World

There are a total of 61 marks available in this test

Marks out of 61 /

Online Services

1. Communication is an example of an online service. Provide two examples of

communication online.
Example 1
Facebook Messenger

Example 2
Skype

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2. Which of the following is most likely to use real-time information?

A. Airports (X)
B. School
C. Manufacturing company
1 Mark

3. Education is an online service. Provide an example of an educational service and describe

the benefits of that example.
Education City is an example of an educational service. The benefits of this service are that
the site allows pupils across the world learn, do homework on the site and play educational
games on the site. Also, the site allows teachers to keep track on the pupils and set
homework for them to do on their own.
2 Marks

4. What does VLE stand for?

Vertuall Learning Education
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5. How can a school use a VLE?

A school can use a VLE by uploading any information about the work that the pupil may have
missed and may need to know in order to do the work that the teacher has set.
1 Mark

6. Name three methods of online advertising

Method 1
Pay Per Click

Method 2
Banner

Method 3
Pop up
3 Marks

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7. Which of the following do you need to do to ensure an online advertisement is effective?

(circle the correct answers)
A. Capture the attention of the target audience through the use of design features
(colour, layout, graphics, animation) (X)
B. Offer a good deal so that the person looking at the advert clicks on it.
C. Only place the advert on sites where people are going to click on it, ensuring that
people click the advert.
D. Retain consumers interest for example using a video to give a demo of the product.
2 Marks

8. Explain what pay per click advertising is and how the affiliate model works

You enter a site, you see a product that you like the look of, you click it and the company
that made the origonal site has to pay for every click that happens in each day for that site
and it is when you click on the link that you like the look of a certain product, the original
site has to pay that site money for that click that you have done.
4 Marks

9. Describe one advantage of using online data storage

You can access the document from anywhere that has an internet connection. This means
that if somewhere has got an internet connection that is free, you can make as many
changes as you want from any device.
2 Marks

Online Documents
1. Which of the following is true (Pick two & Circle the correct answers)
A. Files get smaller when they are compressed (X)
B. All files require compression
C. Large files dont cause problems when transmitted
D. The format of a File changes when it is compressed (X)
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2. Which is the most common method of compressing a file?

Online document compressing
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3. What is an algorithm?
An algorithm is a type of virus youre your computer can get when you open an email
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4. Name 2 advantages of using online documents

Advantage 1

Advantage 2

You can access the document from

If your computer crashes, you can access the

anywhere that has an internet connection.

document through any device from an

internet connection.
2 Marks

5. Match the following document control methods to their correct description

Read-only access

This allows a user to look at and read a document,

but also make changes to it.

Read/Write access

This allows users to retrieve a document, read it, edit it, add a
new document or delete or achieve an existing document.

Full control

This allows a user to look at and read a document,

but not to change it.

3 Marks

6. Pick two advantages that online documents have over offline documents, explain why
these are an advantage.
You can access the document from anywhere that has an internet connection. This is an
advantage because if your computer was to crash, it would mean that you can easily find
another device to finish working on your document and the document is always safe
because you can enter a strong password that no one will know. Whereas, offline
documents may get lossed if they are saved in the wrong place.
4 Marks

Online communication
1. A multi-player online game is an example of a what?
Vertual world
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2. Online communities have sets of rules which govern how people within those
communities should communicate with each other. If these rules are broken then the
offender can be banned from that online community.
What is the term for this?
Nettiquitte
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3. Which of the following is a micro blogging site? (Circle the correct answer)
A.
B.
C.
D.

Google
Twitter
Blog site
BBC news (X)
1 Mark

4. Which of the following best describes the differences between a blog and a wiki?
A. A wiki can only be edited by one person at a time while a blog can be edited by
many at once.
B. A wiki can only be edited by people online while a blog once uploaded cannot be
edited. (X)
C. A wiki can be edited by many at once while a blog can only be edited by one person.
D. Neither can be edited
1 Mark

5. What does the following sentence describe?

Videos are published in episodes like a blog. One of the sites which people share these on is
YouTube.
eHow
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6. VLEs are used widely within schools and offer valuable support to staff and students.
Explain what a VLE is and what is can be used for, explain why this is a benefit.
A VLE or Virtual Learning World is a service that allows students and teachters to access thei
documents online frojm anywhere

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3 Marks

7. Instant messaging provides a way to exchange textual messages as an alternative to phone

calls. Messages are sent in real time which allows responses to be received instantaneously.
Draw a diagram to explain how the client and server work to send messages. You should
use the space below the box to explain your diagram.

2 Marks

8. What does VoIP stand for? (Circle the correct answer)

A. Voice on Internet Protocol
B. Voice over Internet Protocol (X)
C. Voice over Internet Path
D. Voice of Internet Program
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9. Name a service that uses VoIP and one advantage that it offers to the user.

Service

Advantage

2 Marks

10. Describe one limitation of using VoIP

2 Marks

Cloud Computing and Ubiquitous Computing systems

1. Describe what the following terms mean

Cloud Computing

Cloud Storage

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2. Explain two advantages and two disadvantages of cloud computing and cloud storage.
Advantages
1. ..

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2.

Disadvantages
1.

2.

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3. Explain what ubiquitous computing is.

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4. What does RFID stand for? (Circle the correct answer)
A. Random Frequency Identification
B. Radio Form Device
C. Radio Frequency Identification
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5. Currently there are some computer systems in use which use ubiquitous technologies such
as RFID.
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Explain how a supermarket can use these systems and the benefits it offers them.

2 Marks

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