When buying items online, encryption is used. Explain why customers should be reassured by this feature. (1)
Category Archives: Information Systems Design and Development
2014 – Q17 (a)
A supermarket website is used successfully by customers using desktop computers to order groceries online.
The company has received complaints from some customers that the website is difficult to use on their tablet or smartphone.
Identify two reasons why the webpage above would be unsuitable for such portable devices. (2)
Reason 1:
Reason 2:
2014 – Q15 (e)
A search is carried out for holidays in Greece leaving from “Any London” airport after 1st May 2015.
Here are some matching holidays.
Describe how the list is sorted. (2)
2014 – Q15 (d)
The photo gallery features a wide range of holiday images. A photograph is going to be added to the photo gallery.
Explain why Beach v2 is being added to the photo gallery instead of Beach v1. (2)
2014 – Q15 (c)
The Holibobs website includes a variety of media types which are stored using several standard file formats.
Complete the table below, indicating where the following file formats have been used on the website.
The first one has been done for you. (2)
2014 – Q15 (b) – (iii)
Holibobs sells holidays to its online customers. A page from Holibobs website is shown below.
(b) (iii) The “weather widget” showing the current weather uses Javascript.
Suggest one other use of Javascript that could be added to the page. (1)
2014 – Q15 (b) – (i) & (ii)
Holibobs sells holidays to its online customers.
The webpage is created using HTML and JavaScript.
(i) State the feature of HTML code that allows the webpage to be formatted. (1)
(ii) Clicking on the “Location Map” button opens the PlanetEarth Maps website in a new window.
Explain why the HTML code for this link uses absolute addressing. (1)
2014 – Q15 (a)
Holibobs sells holidays to its online customers. A page from Holibobs website is shown below.
(a) State the URL of the webpage (1)
2014 – Q11
Hussain is a technician for a new company that has been asked to prepare a presentation on networks. State one difference between peer-to-peer and client/server networks that he could include in his presentation. (2)
2014 – Q10
Businesses and individuals are now making use of cloud services instead of local storage for storing their data.
State one benefit of using cloud based storage instead of local storage. (1)
