Year 7 ICAS Digital Technologies 5-Question Sample

Question 1 of 5 Internet and email

The 10 pm hover: furious about being dropped from the team, a student types a blistering message to the coach and hovers over send at 10 pm. What is the rule?

A the message goes to drafts, not the coach: strong feelings write things the calmer next reading would not send, and the cooling-off rule, draft tonight, reread in the morning, decide then, costs nothing but hours, the morning edit or delete being the version that protects the relationship and the reputation B sending immediately is the honest choice, because the anger is the true feeling of the moment and a message softened by a night of sleep would misrepresent how serious the situation actually was when it happened, and softening it overnight would leave the coach with no real understanding of how strongly the team actually felt about the decision at the time it was made C angry messages are fine in chats that auto-delete D the rule is never expressing disagreement to staff at all

Question 2 of 5 Word processing

Six round trips: collecting quotes from six web pages into notes, a student copies one, switches windows, pastes, switches back, six full round trips, unaware the clipboard can hold a history. What feature collapses them?

A the round trips are unavoidable because the clipboard is physically a single storage slot in the computer's hardware, and any copy operation must electrically overwrite the previous contents before the new material can be held there B the round trips collapse with clipboard history: the system can keep a list of recent copies, so the workflow becomes copy all six in a row, then open the history panel in the notes and paste each in turn, one window switch instead of six, the feature waiting behind a shortcut most people never learn C pasting six times from one copy would work if paste were pressed harder D typing the quotes out manually avoids clipboard limits entirely

Question 3 of 5 Word processing

The professional gibberish: the mock-up's lorem ipsum paragraphs puzzle the group reviewing it. What is its job?

A the Latin passages are decorative tradition carried over from old printing houses, kept in templates purely for their classical look and swapped out without ever having served any practical function in the design process B the fake text is a design instrument: it fills the text's SHAPE so the layout can be judged, while its meaninglessness stops reviewers from proofreading the placeholder, the layout conversation protected from the wording conversation until each has its turn C the text is an untranslated message the template's designer left D leaving text areas empty would serve the same purpose more honestly

Question 4 of 5 Graphics and multimedia

Weeks into minutes: the documentary must cover months of the garden growing without months of footage slots. What is the editing tool?

A the honest approach is a caption reading several weeks later over a single static shot, because compressing real weeks into seconds of screen time misrepresents how long the training actually took to anyone watching the film B speeding all the footage up until weeks fit the runtime does the same job C the montage compresses it: representative snippets in sequence, seedlings, watering, first shoots, harvest, rhythm carrying the viewer across the months, sampled time standing for elapsed time by convention D the story must shrink to a single session, spans being unfilmable

Question 5 of 5 Graphics and multimedia

The flat revelation: a student asks how professional films make single lines feel enormous. What is the sound-design move?

A often by subtraction: the sound drops away before the line, the room going quiet, the words landing into stillness, contrast doing what volume cannot, the design lesson being that silence is placed as deliberately as any sound B the revelation needs the music turned up louder at the key moment, because importance is communicated through volume and a moment that must land bigger than the surrounding scenes simply needs more sound than they had behind it, the louder mix physically forcing the audience to register that this scene is the one the whole film has been building toward since its opening minutes C silence in a film reads as an audio fault and must be avoided D the fix is a different music genre under the same wall-to-wall approach

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