Year 5 ICAS Digital Technologies 5-Question Sample

Question 1 of 5 Digital systems

First time only: the wireless keyboard needed accepting on the laptop on day one, but never again since. Why the one-off ceremony?

A the ceremony is needed while the two devices are brand new to shop settings, and once they have both warmed up and run for a few days the connection process becomes physically easier for the radios to manage B the button-holding charges the headphones for their first session C day one was the pairing: an introduction where the devices swap and keep a trusted link, so the remembered relationship reconnects them without repeating the ceremony D the tablet tests the sound quality before agreeing to connect

Question 2 of 5 Digital systems

The selective silence: with flight mode on, the downloaded movie plays fine but the browser reports no connection. What exactly does the mode switch off?

A flight mode silences the device's radios in one press: the transmitters stop, so the internet is unreachable, while the screen, apps and stored files carry on untouched B flight mode powers the device most of the way down into a special low-energy sleep, and the handful of apps that still open are simply the few designed to run on the tiny amount of electricity that remains C it deletes the apps that need the internet until landing D it locks the screen so the device cannot distract during the flight

Question 3 of 5 Word processing

The drifting chapter: the title page was separated with rows of empty lines, and every small edit above re-breaks the layout. What is the sturdy way to start a fresh page?

A keep the Enter-key approach but count the blank lines much more carefully, adding or removing them after every editing session so the chapter heading sits at the top of its page again each time B a page break replaces the empty rows: the document then knows a new page starts there, an instruction that survives edits the imitation blank lines cannot C make the chapter title larger until it can only fit at a page top D finish writing first and add the blank lines at the very end

Question 4 of 5 Graphics and multimedia

The paper film, with three panels drawn: the class plans its documentary as numbered panels showing each shot with a caption beneath. What is this plan called, and what does it buy?

A a decorative poster made to advertise the finished film to the rest of the class, drawn early so that it can be pinned up on the classroom wall well before the premiere and build some excitement B a comic version made for classmates who prefer reading to watching C a memory aid drawn after filming to remember what was shot D that is a storyboard: the whole film decided frame by frame before the camera comes out, each panel one shot, each caption its action, so weak moments are fixed on paper cheaply

Question 5 of 5 Graphics and multimedia

The faraway voice: the podcast track sounds like it was spoken in a bathroom from the far corner. What fixes the recording?

A move the microphone close to the speaker: at a hand-span the direct voice dominates and the room's reflections fade into the background, where distance had let the echo compete B keep the recording and simply turn its volume up as far as the editor allows, since a quiet echoey recording made louder becomes a loud clear recording of exactly the same performance C speak in a much louder voice from the same far position D buy a more expensive microphone for the same far corner

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