OCR 2023 COMPUTER SCIENCE H446/01: COMPUTER SYSTEMS A LEVEL QUESTION PAPER & MARK SCHEME (MERGED)

A small manufacturing business uses networked computers with closed source application software installed. (a) A spreadsheet application package is used to calculate employee’s wages. (i) Give one benefit of using a spreadsheet application for this task compared to calculating wages manually. ........................................................................................................................................... . ..................................................................................................................................[1] (ii) Give two other types of application packages that the small business could use, giving an example of a task that the business could use each application for. Application 1 ...................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................... Example of task 1 .............................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... Application 2 ...................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................... Example of task 2 .............................................................................................................. ........................................................................................................................................... [4] (iii) Describe a drawback of using closed source software (rather than open source software) for the small business. ........................................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................................................................... . ..................................................................................................................................[3] 3 © OCR 2023 Turn over (b) Each computer the business uses has a BIOS. Tick () one box in each row to identify whether each statement in the table is true or false. Statement True False BIOS stands for Boot Input Output Standard The BIOS can be used to alter hardware settings, such as which storage device the computer boots from BIOS settings are stored in RAM [3] The business uses virtual storage to hold regular backups of all of its data. (c) Explain why virtual storage is well-suited for storing backups. ................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................