Sample Paper Reference P000143 600/0139/2

NCFE Functional Skills Qualification in ICT at Level 2

Time Allowed 2½ hours (15 minutes additional time is allowed for printing).

This assessment is in two parts. In Part A you will have access to the internet and will be able to search and obtain information. In Part B you will not have access to the internet.You have 45 minutes for Part A and 105 minutes (1¾ hours) for Part B.

Candidate No:Ext Ass Ref:Batch No:Forename:Surname:Centre No:

Please ensure that your personal details above are correct.

For this external assessment you’ll need:

a computer with internet connection access to a hard disk to save your work the file restaurant meal sales.txt pen or pencil and paper for rough notes.

Read each activity and data file carefully and attempt all 6 activities.

You must save all your work in named files. Give each file a name that indicates clearly what it contains. You should save your work often using different file names. These files should show how your work was planned and developed.

Where requested in this document, write your answers in the spaces provided. Make sure that your writing is easy to read.

Make sure you print out all your work at the end of the external assessment. Hand this paper and all printouts to the invigilator, as instructed.

DO NOT TURN OVER UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY THE INVIGILATOR

For Examiner use only

Activity number 1 2 3 4 5 6 TotalMarks awarded

Assessment activitiesYou will be assessed on your ability to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the following three skill areas:

Using ICT systems Finding and selecting information Developing, presenting and communicating information

It will help you to read through each of the activities before starting them.

Activity Activity description Marks Suggested Time

(minutes)

TotalTime

(minutes)

Part A 1 Create a folder for your work. 4 5 45

2 Work on email. 16 20

3 Find information from the 11 20

Part B 4 Create a poster. 33 45 105

5 Work on some sales 24 45

6 Answer written questions. 12 15

100 150 150

Evidence you need to produce.

A box like this appears at the end of each activity and tells you what evidence you need to produce for the activity. Tick the small box by each item, as shown here, as you completeeach piece of work.

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Assessment Scenario

You work for the manager of a company restaurant named ‘Tasty Bites’ that provides snacks and meals to the company’s workforce. Your manager has asked you to produce a poster to help promote this week’s special dish, which is fish & chips.

Your Manager has supplied some text and images for the poster, but it needs some more information to complete it.

Part A: you have 45 minutes to complete this section.

Activity 1: Create a folder for your work. Suggested time: 5 minutes Marks available: 41a Create a folder in your hard disk work area. Give the folder a suitable name.

You must save all your work into this folder.

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Activity 2: Receive email. Suggested time: 20 minutes Marks available: 16Your manager has sent you an email.

2a Open the email with the subject ‘Tasty Bites’.

2b Save the two files attached to this email to your work folder.

2c Copy the text of the email into a new file.

2d One of the emails in your inbox is spam. Delete this email.

2e Create a rule to automatically send any email with the same subject to the junk email folder.

2f Produce screen shots showing:

1. the emails in your inbox

2. the rule you have created

3. your folder with the files it contains.

What you need to produce for this activity:Files containing the required information, saved in your work folder.

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Activity 3: Find information from the internet.Suggested time: 20 minutes Marks available: 11Your manager has asked you to find some typical food values for a fish & chips meal.

3a Find the food value in calories and the fat content in grams for each ingredient of a typical fish and chips meal. The ingredients are:

battered fried fish chips peas tartare sauce.

3b Copy the information, the search words you use to find it and the addresses of the web pages on which you find the information into a new file. You will need this information in Part B.

What you need to produce for this activity:A file containing the required information, saved in your work folder.

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Part B: you have 1¾ hours to complete this section. You must not attempt to use email or the Internet in this section.

Activity 4: Create a poster.Suggested time: 45 minutes Marks available: 33Your manager has asked you to produce a poster to be displayed in the restaurant. The poster must:

inform people about the food values of a fish & chips meal help to sell the meal.

Your manager wants the poster to: be on one A4 page use all the text supplied in the email display both the images in the files that were attached to the email use labels, or some other means, to identify each of the main ingredients in the image of the fish and chips meal. The labels must also show the food values found in Activity 3.

Your poster should also: include a table with at least three columns and three rows, used for an appropriate purpose be fit for purpose – as a poster, it should draw people’s attention be easy to read be free of errors.

4a Create the poster. You should save three versions of your poster file that clearly show how you developed the final poster from the original text. Check the final version of the poster for errors.

4b Add a footer to each version of the poster containing your name and candidate number.

What you need to produce for this activity:The poster files your have produced, saved to your work folder.

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Activity 5: Work on some sales information. Suggested time: 45 minutes Marks available: 24The file restaurant meals sales.txt contains information about the sales of meals in the company restaurant over several months. During this time the company has taken on more staff.

Your manager has asked you to produce a chart that shows: the sales of each type of meal and the total sales of all meals

for each month from Jan to Jul.

5a Display the information in restaurant meals sales.txt in a suitable application.

5b Make the titles stand out from the other information. Make sure that all the information can be read.

5c Sort the information in alphabetical order of meal type.

5d Produce the required chart.

Your manager also wants you to estimate what the total meals sales will be in Dec, assuming the current sales trends continue.

5e Using the Jan to Jul sales data, estimate the number of meals that the restaurant can expect to sell in Dec. It must be clear from your work how the estimated value was produced.

What you need to produce for this activity:A file containing the required information, saved in your work folder.

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Activity 6: Answer written questions. Suggested time: 15 minutes Marks available: 12Enter answers to each of the following four questions.

1 Which application did you choose to use for the work in Activity 5? Explain why the application was suitable for the work. What is your own judgement of how effectively you used this application?

Marks available: 3

2 Explain why the information on food values that you found on the internet can be considered to be free of copyright.

Marks available: 3

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3 When you print out your work at the end of this assessment it is possible that paper could jam in the printer. Explain what you would do if that happens, assuming you would be permitted to deal directly with the problem yourself.

Marks available: 3

4 Explain what steps you took to check that the values you found in your internet search were reasonable and suited to your needs.

Marks available: 3

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The assessment is over

Print all the files that you have created for Activities 1 to 5.

Write the following information at the bottom of each printed page:

the name of the file

your name

your candidate number.

Only pages that contain this information in full will be marked.

Give this paper and all your printouts to the invigilator.

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