Input and output devices: past paper questions

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• Question 2May/June 2026, paper 11Structured11 marks

  A smartphone has a quad-core 2.4 GHz processor. The processor performs the fetch-decode-execute (FDE) cycle. The first register used in the FDE cycle stores the location in random access memory (RAM) of the next instruction.

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2025, paper 12Structured13 marks

  A toy store gives each of the toys it sells a unique code. The codes are 3-digit hexadecimal codes, for example A4B. A computer is used to store a database of the codes.

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• Question 2Oct/Nov 2024, paper 11Structured10 marks

  A student has a smartphone. Identify two input devices that can be built into the smartphone.

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• Question 4May/June 2026, paper 11Structured11 marks

  An optical mouse is connected to a computer using a universal serial bus (USB) cable. State the purpose of the optical mouse.

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• Question 4Oct/Nov 2024, paper 12Structured13 marks

  A student has a smartwatch. The smartwatch has built-in input and output devices. Identify two input devices that can be built into the smartwatch.

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• Question 7Oct/Nov 2023, paper 12Structured8 marks

  A train station has a ticket inspector who checks each customer’s ticket before they are allowed to get on the train. The train station wants a system that will allow the tickets to be automatically checked.

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• Question 2May/June 2025, paper 11Structured9 marks

  A clothes store has a ticket system to allow customers to speak to a personal shopper. The ticket displays a ticket number in hexadecimal, for example 11B. The ticket system has an output device that creates a paper ticket.

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• Question 1May/June 2024, paper 11Structured4 marks

  A student has a portable tablet computer. Identify two input devices that could be built into the portable tablet computer.

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• Question 11Oct/Nov 2023, paper 12Structured5 marks

  A manufacturing company uses an automated system in its manufacturing process. The automated system uses a flow sensor. Identify what a flow sensor measures.

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• Question 3May/June 2026, paper 13Structured14 marks

  A student is playing her piano. She uses her tablet computer to record the sound produced by the piano. The tablet computer has built-in input and output devices.

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• Question 6May/June 2024, paper 13Structured9 marks

  A sensor is an input device that is used to capture data from its surrounding environment. Circle three other input devices. touch screen hard disk drive (HDD) headphones speaker microphone actuator universal serial bus (USB) drive printer keyboard

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• Question 1Oct/Nov 2023, paper 13Structured8 marks

  A mobile telephone has built-in input and output devices. Give two examples of an input device that would be built into a mobile telephone.

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• Question 1May/June 2023, paper 12Structured3 marks

  Output devices are used to output data from a computer. Circle three devices that are output devices. actuator digital versatile disk (DVD) keyboard microphone mouse printer scanner sensor solid-state drive (SSD) speaker Output devices are used to output data from a computer.

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• Question 2May/June 2023, paper 13Structured16 marks

  A library has a self-checkout system that allows customers to register books that they want to borrow. The self-checkout system has a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU has two cores.

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