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Information and Communication Technology 0417/31 February/March 2019: question paper and mark scheme

Cambridge IGCSE Information and Communication Technology (0417), Paper 3 Practical Test B, February/March 2019. Read both free below, or download them. Done the paper? Get it marked by AI against this mark scheme.

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Paper
Paper 3 Practical Test B
Total marks
80
Time
2 hours 30 minutes
Questions
2
Code on the paper
0417/31/F/M/19
0417_m19_ms_31.pdf

0417/31 mark scheme, question by question

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Question 14 marks

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• Evaluate this web page for the intended audience. [4] EVIDENCE 1 Type your evaluation into your Evidence Document using no more than 100 words.

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Question 24 marks

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• State the most appropriate web development layer to: a) set the background colour of all pages in a website b) create a hyperlink to another web page c) collapse all table borders d) enlarge an image when the user hovers the cursor over it. [4] EVIDENCE 2 Type your answers into your Evidence Document. www.dynamicpapers.com 3 You work for Hothouse Design and will develop web pages for a small British company called Gloria’s Glorious Gardens. Efficient markup and stylesheets must be used. All colour codes must be in hexadecimal. • Create a new folder called GGG_html • Locate the following files and store them in your GGG_html folder. Apple.jpg Camellia.jpg Cherry.jpg Forsythia.jpg GGGlogo.png GGGstyle.css GGGtext.txt Lilac.jpg

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Question 31 mark

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• Open and resize the image Lilac.jpg so that it is 672 pixels wide and 896 pixels high. • Save the image with the file name Lilac1.jpg [1]

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Question 42 marks

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• Remove the left and right of the image to make it 271 pixels wide and 896 pixels high, like this: • Save the image with the file name Lilac2.jpg [2]

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Question 51 mark

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• Display the contents of your GGG_html folder showing the folder name, all file names, extensions, file sizes and image dimensions. [1] EVIDENCE 3 Take a screenshot of your GGG_html folder and place this in your Evidence Document. www.dynamicpapers.com 4

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Question 613 marks

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• Create a web page called Spring.htm • This web page must work in all browsers and will have a table structure as shown below: A 800 × 100 B C D 300 × 225 225 × 225 E F 300 × 225 225 × 225 275 × 900 G H 300 × 225 225 × 225 I J 300 × 225 225 × 225 K 800 × 150 • Each table cell is identified with a letter and all dimensions are in pixels. The letters and dimensions shown in the table must not appear on your final web page. • All table borders must be visible and have a width of 2 pixels. [13]

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Question 72 marks

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• Place in cell A the text: Spring flowering trees and shrubs • Set this text as style h1. [2]

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Question 82 marks

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• Place in cell: ◦ C the text Apple ◦ F the text Camellia ◦ H the text Cherry ◦ J the text Forsythia • Set this text as style h2. [2] www.dynamicpapers.com 5

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Question 95 marks

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• Place in cell: ◦ D the image Lilac2.jpg saved in step 4 ◦ B the image of the Apple tree ◦ E the image of the Camellia ◦ G the image of the Cherry tree ◦ I the image of the Forsythia. • In the markup, resize each of these images to 290 pixels wide while maintaining the aspect ratio. [3] 10 • Place in cell K the text from the file GGGtext.txt • Replace the text <insert your name, centre number and candidate number here> with your name, centre number and candidate number. • Set this text as style h3. [2]

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Question 1130 marks

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• Make only the text link a hyperlink to send an email message to: hothouse-design@cambridgeinternational.org with the subject line Ask the expert [5] 12 • Make sure appropriate text is displayed if an image is not available. [1] 13 • Attach the stylesheet GGGstyle.css to your web page. • Save the web page in your GGG_html folder. [1] You will create a second stylesheet using the most efficient syntax. Make sure your stylesheet does not contain any html. 14 • Create a new stylesheet called GGG followed by your candidate number, for example: GGG9999.css • Place your name, centre number and candidate number as a comment at the bottom of this stylesheet. • Edit this stylesheet so that: ◦ the image GGGlogo.png becomes the single background image placed at the top right of each page ◦ all tables are left aligned in the browser ◦ all table borders are visible and 2 pixels wide. • Save your stylesheet and attach it to your web page. Make sure that your new stylesheet has a higher priority than GGGstyle.css [9] www.dynamicpapers.com 6 • Display the web page in your browser. If necessary, resize it so that: • all the page can be seen • all text can be easily read • the address bar is visible. EVIDENCE 4 Take screenshot(s) of the browser window and place this in your Evidence Document. • Display the html source in your editor. EVIDENCE 5 Take a copy of the HTML source and place this in your Evidence Document. • Display the new stylesheet in your editor. EVIDENCE 6 Take a copy of your new stylesheet and place this in your Evidence Document. [Total: 50] Task 3 – Spreadsheet You are going to prepare a spreadsheet model for use by employees of Gloria’s Glorious Gardens. 15 • Open these files in a spreadsheet package and examine their contents: • Trees.csv • Category.csv • TreeCodes.csv • In the Trees spreadsheet place: ◦ your name, centre number and candidate number on the right in the header ◦ an automated file name including the file path on the left in the footer. [2] 16 • In the Trees spreadsheet, insert three new rows before row 1. • Edit the file so that it looks like this: • Save this as a spreadsheet with the file name Trees_ followed by your centre number and candidate number, for example, Trees_ZZ999_9999 [9] www.dynamicpapers.com 7 17 • Take a screenshot showing only cells A1 to M5 of your spreadsheet, including the row and column headings. Make sure the contents of the cells are fully visible. [1] EVIDENCE 7 Place this screenshot in your Evidence Document. 18 • Enter a function in cell D5 to look up the Type of tree or shrub from the source file Category. csv • Do not edit this source file. [5] The Lcode, Tcode and Dcode columns hold codes for whether a tree or shrub Likes, Tolerates or Dislikes certain environmental factors. 19 • Enter functions in cells I5, J5 and K5 to look up the Environment factors from the source file TreeCodes.csv • Do not edit this source file. • Make sure that when these functions are used they do not display any error messages. [6] 20 • Replicate the functions entered in steps 18 and 19 so that the results are displayed for all trees. [1] 21 • Hide columns C, F, G and H [1] 22 • Save and print the spreadsheet showing the formulae. Make sure: ◦ only rows 1-29 are visible ◦ it is in landscape orientation ◦ row and column headings are displayed ◦ the contents of all cells are fully visible. [1] PRINTOUT 1 Make sure that you have entered your name, centre number and candidate number on your spreadsheet showing the formulae. www.dynamicpapers.com 8 23 • Create a spreadsheet extract from the data to show trees or shrubs that are: ◦ a small tree, large shrub or medium shrub ◦ evergreen • The extract must display only the Common name, Likes, Tolerates, Dislikes, Evergreen and Notes columns for the selected data. • Print the spreadsheet extract showing the values. Make sure the: ◦ printout fits on a single page ◦ header, footer and contents of the specified cells are fully visible. [4] PRINTOUT 2 Make sure that you have entered your name, centre number and candidate number on your spreadsheet showing the extracted values. • Save and print your Evidence Document. PRINTOUT 3 Make sure that you have entered your name, centre number and candidate number on your Evidence Document. [Total: 30]

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