Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Ramjagasar
Section 5: Information Processing
Check your progress 1
1.
In the examples given on page 227, which are automation systems and which are process control systems?
A. Automation systems: manufacturing chemicals, packing goods, video recorders, digital televisions, digital cameras,
washing machines, microwave ovens, cell phones.
Control systems: Robots for manufacturing, signalling systems, autopilots,
End-of-topic questions 1
1.
2.
4.
3.
sorting
What kind of proprietary software packages could be used for each of these tasks:
a.
Correspondence
b.
Accounts
c.
Budgeting
d.
Marketing
A.
a.
word processing
b.
c.
spreadsheet
d.
desktop publishing
5.
What kind of software could be used by a scientist to analyse and present their findings?
A.
Spreadsheet
What are the advantages of using machine-readable documents for inputting data in a computer system?
A.
Machine-readable documents can be scanned by an input device without
input process both faster and
more accurate.
End-of-topic questions 2
1.
2.
3.
Input will be faster and more accurate than a person reading and keying in
data.
Why do forms sometimes make you write each character in a separate box?
A.
So that each character can be clearly read by the person who is keying in
the data.
Mr.Ramjagasar
1.
An employee was keying in data written on an application form. Which of these errors could be identified by data verification, which by
data validation, and which by neither?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
A.
a.
Data verification
b.
Data validation
c.
Neither
d.
Data validation
e.
addresses)
Neither (although data validation could identify this error if it the system
End-of-topic questions 3
1.
What is the main difference between data verification and data validation?
A.
2.
software.
Why is it better to use double entry for data verification rather than simply checking over what has been entered?
A.
3.
An inconsistency check will compare two or more data items. For example, if someone has given their title as Mr then they should
have entered their gender as Male.
End-of-topic questions 4
1.
2.
3.
4.
A sort key is a field that is used to determine the sort order of a file of
records.
End-of-topic questions 5
1.
2.
Of the three methods of file organisation (sequential, index-sequential and random) which, if any:
Mr.Ramjagasar
a.
b.
c.
A.
a.
b.
Sequential
c.
None
End-of-section questions
Multiple-choice questions
1.
II.
III.
IV.
3.
Which of the following devices would most likely be present in a process control system?
A Robots
B Sensors
C Digital assistants
D Spreadsheets
A.
4.
5.
Structured questions
Mr.Ramjagasar
1.
a.
b.
c.
A.
a.
processing.
b.
information.
c.
Commercial data processing; industrial data processing; control
scientific data processing
2.
a.
b.
systems;
A.
a.
In process control systems, data is captured automatically using
sensors. The
software in the controller then processes the data from
the sensors and determines what action, if any, to
take. It then sends
the instructions to other special devices such as motors and switches,
which are part of the device that is being controlled.
b.
3.
a.
b.
c.
document.
A.
a.
A source document is one that contains data that is going to be input
into a computer system. A
turnaround document is one that is printed
by a computer system, but is later used to input new data into the same
system.
b.
by a scanner.
c.
4.
a.
b.
c.
Briefly describe any two of the types of data validation you identified in your answer Q4b.
A.
a.
Data verification is the process of checking to ensure that data has
been correctly
keyed into a computer system while data validation is
the process to identify data that cannot be correct, when data
is
entered.
b.
c.
limits.
Data type checks - these check whether the data is of the correct type,
a.
b.
For each of the methods of file organisation you identified in your answer
where it is used.
c.
A.
a.
b.
of a company
system
c.
Sequential access is retrieving information in the same order it is
physically stored,
and the time taken to retrieve the information is
dependent on its physical location. Direct access is
retrieving
information in any order and the time taken to retrieve the information is
not dependent on its physical location.