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11.7 Key points/learning outcomes |
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Describe the broad
characteristics, capabilities and limitations of current input devices,
storage devices, communications devices, processing devices and output
devices and identify appropriate contexts for their use.
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ICT2 Assessment/Exams
1 hour 30 minute exam. Short answer questions
Next exam
Friday 13 January 2006 PM
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See the
books page for more
details about the titles listed below
McWeeney
Mott & Leeming
Doyle
Heathcote
AQA past papers
Past papers. Not as useful as the Psionica database AQA shamefully closed
but...
Practice questions
A couple of past paper practice questions for 11.7 (.rtf file - opens in Word/Writer).
Past paper answers
Answers to the questions above. Password protected .doc file. Sorry but
the password is only available to teachers.
Older Exam Papers
Past papers (pre 2000) not included on the official AQA site from
Colchester VI Form College. These still contain some relevant questions
for this topic. Look for IT02/ICT2 papers.
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Links to general online
resources for 11.7. I'd recommend right clicking links/icons and "Save
Target As..." for anything other than web pages (see key below)
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Flash Notes |
Steve Longley's excellent online flash
notes for 11.7 - Hardware: blah de blah de blah
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Flash Notes |
Offline version of the above. Right
click the link (or icon) and Save Target As...
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Input Devices |
Links to pages for just about every input
device you can imagine and then some!
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Storage Devices |
Short PowerPoint presentation based on
chapter 26 of Heathcote A level textbook
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Output Devices |
Short PowerPoint presentation based on
chapter 28 of Heathcote A level textbook
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Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101 |
Cool website explains hardware basics in a
way that even a cat could understand! Note to cats: Use the menu on the
right!
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This site provides a good introduction to PC
hardware if you follow all the links.
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Revision Questions |
Handout containing a couple of questions.
Suitable for homework, revision, blah de blah de blah.
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11.7 Hardware |
Summary notes and questions from North
Chadderton High School.
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Revision Questions 2 |
Handout from OCRICT covering 512: Components
of an Information System. Most of it is suitable for 11.7
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Teach-ICT Hardware |
Hardware index from Teach-ICT. For GCSE but
a very good introduction to this topic.
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Components of an Information System |
Online PowerPoint presentation from the
multi-talented and very nice Glen Milberry at
OCRICT
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Components of an Information System |
The above presentation from OCRICT available
as a self-extracting zip file.
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Hardware Revision Sheet |
Spider diagram classifying hardware from
Kesgrave High School. Not sure of the point of this but...
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Open2.Net |
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Portal thing with a horrible fiddly
interface from the BBC. It covers quite a few hardware type things
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Key to resources:
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