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Information and Communication Technology 0417/31 February/March 2023: question paper and mark scheme

Cambridge IGCSE Information and Communication Technology (0417), Paper 3 Spreadsheets and Website Authoring, February/March 2023. Read both free below, or download them. Done the paper? Get it marked by AI against this mark scheme.

0417_m23_qp_310417_m23_ms_310417/31/F/M/23

Paper
Paper 3 Spreadsheets and Website Authoring
Total marks
70
Time
2 hours 15 minutes
Questions
3
Code on the paper
0417/31/F/M/23
0417_m23_ms_31.pdf

0417/31 mark scheme, question by question

Each question as it's printed, and the mark scheme's points for it, as text. Diagrams, tables and graphs are in the PDFs above.

Question 15 marks

Question

Open and examine the file m23batting.csv in your spreadsheet software. Delete row 2. Insert a new row at the top of the spreadsheet. Merge cells A1 to V1. Place the text Tawara Cricket Club in this merged cell. Merge cells A2 to V2. Place in the footer, right aligned, the text Spreadsheet edited by followed by a space, your name, centre number and candidate number. Save this as a spreadsheet with the file name m23cricket_centre number _candidate number, for example, m23cricket_ZZ999_9999 [5]

Mark scheme

1 Cells A1:V1 and A2:V2 merged 5 Row deleted – First cell contained 'Batting' New row inserted at top of spreadsheet Footer – Spreadsheet edited by (space) Candidate details on right Text Tawara Cricket Club 100% accurate

Question 210 marks

Question

Format the spreadsheet to look like this. Tawara Cricket Club Format row 1 to have 36 point sans-serif white text on a dark-grey background. Format row 2 to have 18 point sans-serif black text on a light-grey background. [10]

Mark scheme

2 Row 1 Dark grey background 10 Row 1 White text Row 1 36-point sans-serif Row 2 Light grey background Row 2 18-point sans-serif text Row 3 Centre aligned vertically Text wrapped as shown All text centre aligned horizontally … … except A4:A31 right aligned Column S - Narrowed to <0.5 of column T

Question 33 marks

Question

Place in cell U4 a function to count the number of matches played by this player. Replicate this formula for each player. [3]

Mark scheme

3 Cell U4: 3 =COUNT( …) … B4:R4 Replicated to U31

Question 416 marks

Question

Place in cells B33 and B34 functions to display the highest and lowest scores for this match. Replicate this for all other matches. [5] 5 Place a replicable formula in cell V4 to calculate the average score for this player, rounded to 1 decimal place. Total runs scored Average score = Number of matches played – Not out Edit this formula to make sure that cell contents are not displayed if this player has played fewer than 5 matches. Replicate this formula for all players. [11]

Mark scheme

4 Cell B33: 5 =MAX ( … ) … B4:B31 Cell B34: =MIN ( … ) … B4:B31 B33 and B34: Replicated to column R Cell V4: 11 Use of IF function… … U4<5 … displays blank ROUND( …)… … to 1 decimal place SUM … … (B4:R4) / U4-T4 … … in brackets to ensure order of operations Replicated to V31

Question 62 marks

Question

Save your spreadsheet. Print your spreadsheet showing the formulae. Make sure: • the row and column headings are displayed • the gridlines are displayed • the page orientation is landscape • the contents of all cells are fully visible and can be easily read. [2]

Mark scheme

6 Printout 2 Landscape with gridlines Fully visible with row & column heads

Question 75 marks

Question

Sort all the data for the players in descending order of their average score. Those players who do not have an average score displayed must be at the bottom of the list. [5]

Mark scheme

7 Sort: 5 Ascending order … … in the range A4:V31 … to move blanks to bottom Descending order … in the range A4:V25

Question 843 marks

Question

Save your spreadsheet with the file name m23cricket1_centre number_candidate number, for example, m23cricket1_ZZ999_9999 Print your spreadsheet showing the values. Make sure: • the row and column headings are not displayed • the gridlines are not displayed • the page orientation is landscape • the contents of all cells are fully visible and can be easily read. [2] [Total: 43] Task 3 – File Management and Image Manipulation

Mark scheme

8 All printout No gridlines 2 Fully visible with no row and column headings

Question 95 marks

Question

Create a new folder called TCC Locate the following files and store them in your TCC folder: m23bat.jpg m23logo.jpg m23tcc.htm m23text.txt Open and edit the file m23logo.jpg by: • reflecting (flipping) it horizontally • rotating it 180 degrees so that the text is readable • reducing the image dimensions to 900 pixels wide by 180 pixels high. Save this new image in your TCC folder in .png format, using the file name tcclogo_ followed by your candidate number, for example, tcclogo_9999 Display the contents of your TCC folder showing the folder name, all file names, file extensions, image dimensions and file sizes. Take a screenshot of this folder and place this in your Evidence Document. [5] [Total: 5] Task 4 – Web Page You are going to create a stylesheet and part of a web page for the Tawara Cricket Club. The web page and stylesheet must work in any browser. All colour codes are in hexadecimal and any new colour codes must also be in hexadecimal. Make sure that your stylesheet contains no HTML. Make your HTML and stylesheet as efficient as possible.

Mark scheme

9 TCC folder: 5 Screenshot – file names, sizes, extensions, dimensions tcclogo_9999: in PNG format 900 wide × 180 high reflected horizontally rotated 180 degrees

Question 1013 marks

Question

Create a new stylesheet in your TCC folder called m23tcc.css Add CSS to this stylesheet to meet these specifications: background colour blue component 0a green component 04 red component 6d h1, h2, h3 and p font style Domino, but if this font is not available then Domino Regular, or if these fonts are not available, the browser’s default serif font font colour yellow table alignment centre within the browser window borders collapsed not visible Place your name, centre number and candidate number as a comment at the start of the stylesheet. Save your stylesheet. Place a copy of your stylesheet in your Evidence Document. Make sure that the contents are easy to read. [13]

Mark scheme

10 body: 13 background-color: #6d040a table: margin-left:auto margin-right:auto border-collapse: collapse borders not visible h1,h2,h3,p {}: font-family: Domino , Domino Regular "Domino Regular" in speech marks , serif color: #ffff00 All using single selector Correct CSS syntax Comment with /* Cand details */ at top

Question 116 marks

Question

Open, in your TCC folder, the web page called m23tcc.htm The web page has a structure like this. A B C D Each cell contains a letter which must not appear on your final web page. Replace the letter: • A with the image tcclogo that you saved in step 9 • B with the contents of the file m23text.txt • C with the image m23bat.jpg • D with the text Web page created by: followed by your name, centre number and candidate number. Apply style h2 to all text in cells B and D. Make sure the aspect ratio of both images is maintained. [6]

Mark scheme

11 Row 1: 6 tcclogo_9999 in top row Row 2: m23text.txt in left cell m23bat.jpg in right cell Row 3: Web page created by: name, centre and cand no in left cell Rows 2 and 3: Both cells set to h2 Aspect ratio of both images retained

Question 121 mark

Question

Edit this web page so that the table fits 85% of the browser window. [1]

Mark scheme

12 <table> table width 85% 1

Question 1322 marks

Question

Attach the stylesheet m23tcc.css to this web page. Save the web page. Display the web page in your browser. Take screenshot evidence and place this in your Evidence Document. Make sure that: • all the page can be seen • all the text can be easily read • the address bar is fully visible. Display the HTML source. Take a copy of the HTML source and place this in your Evidence Document. [2] [Total: 22] Please turn over for Task 5 Task 5 – Printing the Evidence Document Make sure your name, centre number and candidate number appear on every page of your Evidence Document. Save and print your Evidence Document.

Mark scheme

13 Browser view: 2 In a browser, address bar visible, no letters visible <head> m23tcc.css attached

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