Sunday, February 25, 2007

Section A

19 comments:

Alastair Barker said...

How are concept keyboards different from a QWERTY keyboard?

Alastair Barker said...

Describe how a mouse works

Alastair Barker said...

Explain one difference between a touch-sensitive pad and a mouse

Alastair Barker said...

What type of file is created when an image is put through a scanner? Why is it called this?

Alastair Barker said...

What do the letters OCR, MICR and OMR stand for? For each, give an example of their use.

Alastair Barker said...

List five input, output and storage devices

Alastair Barker said...

What are the 3 parts of the CPU called?

Alastair Barker said...

What would you use a Dot-Matrix print for?

Alastair Barker said...

How does a laser printer work? Give 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of using a laser printer compared to using a dot-matrix

Alastair Barker said...

What is the different between buffering and spooling? Why is each one useful?

Alastair Barker said...

What are 2 differences between ROM and RAM? What is the ROM chip called that starts up a computer? Why do we need RAM, why not use ROM chips which don't forget?

Alastair Barker said...

Name 2 types of monitor

Alastair Barker said...

What are the drawbacks to using speech recognition as a means of input?

Alastair Barker said...

What does WORM mean? Name 2 types of WORM disk

Alastair Barker said...

What is faster - serial or direct access? Why?

Alastair Barker said...

Explain 4 tasks performed by the operating system

Alastair Barker said...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a command line interface

Alastair Barker said...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a WIMP interface

Alastair Barker said...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a menu interface? Give an example of its use