10. Communication
A section of Information and Communication Technology, 0417
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You have been asked by the secretary of a soccer club to create a website to publicise its results, fixtures and other events. When the website has been created it has to be published on the internet. You plan to upload it onto the internet using FTP. Explain what is meant by FTP. Explain how to upload and publish the content of a website using FTP. 1 8 Before the website is published it needs to be tested. Write down three different features of the web pages that could be tested. For each feature, describe the method you would use to carry out the test. Feature 1 Method Feature 2 Method Feature 3 Method [ 1 8
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Students often use IT equipment; therefore it is important to have a good physical safety strategy. Evaluate your own use of IT equipment, in terms of physical safety, and describe the strategies you will need to minimise the potential physical safety risks. Describe two uses of a company intranet. [ 1 2 Social networking is used to communicate with friends; this is one use of the internet. Describe four other uses of the internet. 1 2 A major part of the everyday use of the internet is social networking. Currently some social networks are not policed. The owners of a website have full discretion on what material is removed and what is allowed to be kept. Discuss the benefits and drawbacks of policing social networking sites. [ 1 2
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A search engine can be used to find information on the internet. Describe the disadvantages of using a search engine to find information rather than typing in a web address. A student is writing a project on rare animals. He uses a search engine to find information about the animals from the internet. He is concerned about the reliability of some of the information he has found. Explain how he would evaluate the reliability of this information. [ 1 2 The student plans to create a table, using word processing software, to display the information he has found out about the animal. The completed table will look like this: Tiger quoll Name of animal Dasyurus maculatus Scientific name No Pouched Australia Habitat Threatened Conservation status Explain how the student can create a table to enter this data. The student has saved a picture from the internet of a tiger quoll. Explain how he could create a new row above the Pouched row and place the picture into the right-hand cell of this new row. 1 2
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