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This document contains questions about hardware components, email, storage devices, and file size conversions. Section A asks to label 5 hardware components and provides blank spaces to write the answers. Section B asks questions about the meaning of email, two advantages and disadvantages of email, and to provide three examples of storage devices that hold over 1GB with their storage capacities in brackets. It also provides conversion tables and asks to convert file sizes between terabytes, gigabytes, megabytes and bytes. Specifically, it asks to: 1) Convert 3 terabytes to gigabytes 2) Calculate how many 3.5MB word documents would fit on a CD rom.

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IT Paper Basics 1

This document contains questions about hardware components, email, storage devices, and file size conversions. Section A asks to label 5 hardware components and provides blank spaces to write the answers. Section B asks questions about the meaning of email, two advantages and disadvantages of email, and to provide three examples of storage devices that hold over 1GB with their storage capacities in brackets. It also provides conversion tables and asks to convert file sizes between terabytes, gigabytes, megabytes and bytes. Specifically, it asks to: 1) Convert 3 terabytes to gigabytes 2) Calculate how many 3.5MB word documents would fit on a CD rom.

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Section A

1 Label the following hardware components. (5 X 1 mark)

a)

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b) c)

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d)
e)

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Section B
1) a) what does E-mail stand for ? (1mark)

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b) State 2 advantages of email. (2marks)

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c) State 2 disadvantages of email (2 marks)

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2) Give example of 3 storage devices that can store above 1 GB and write their storage capacity in brackets.

i) ……………………………………. ( ) (2marks)
ii) ……………………………………. ( ) (2marks)
iii) ….................................... ( ) (2marks)

Use the convertion table below to attempt question 3, 4 and 5


1 Kb = 1024 bytes
1Mb = 1024 kb
1 Gb = 1024 Mb
1Tb = 1024 Gb

3) Convert 3 Tb to Gb . (Show working) (2 marks)

4) A word document is 3.5 mb. How many word docs would fit on a cd rom ?
(Show working) (3marks)

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