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Functional Skills ICT Level 2 Sample Paper

Fill in your name, date of birth and registration number in the box below.

Surname: Other Names

Gateway Qualifications registration number: DOB:

Centre Name:

My signature confirms that I will not discuss the content of this assessment with anyone.

Signature:

Paper Ref: FSITL2SA/P

Time: 2 hours 30 minutes

Total Marks

Instructions for candidates

• Complete all tasks

• Make sure you keep the evidence required for each task. You can either

– paste screen shots at the end of each task into a single document and

print out all the evidence together at the end of the assessment

or

- print out the evidence you are asked for at the end of each individual

task so that you have multiple printouts.

• Make sure that you put your name, learner number and centre name on all

printouts.

• Make sure your printouts are attached to this cover sheet using a treasury tag.

• Please note that for Part A of this paper, internet access is required and for Part

B, no internet access is allowed.

• The total mark for this paper is 50.

• The marks for each task are shown in brackets - use this as a guide as to how

much time to spend on each question.

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Part A - Finding Information

Internet access is required

Make sure that you put your name on each printout.

Q 1

Create a folder where you will put all the files that you use.

(2 marks)

Q 2

(a) Use the Internet to find:

• who opened the Sydney Opera House; in what year

• an image of the Sydney Opera House

(b) Paste the image into a document and indicate below the pasted image, two checks

that would need to be made before the image you have selected could be safely

used.

(7 marks)

Total for Part A = 9 marks

Evidence you must provide:

• At the end of the task print a screen shot showing the folder and the files

used

Evidence you must provide:

• a screen shot showing the search criteria used to find the information requested

• the image of the Sydney Opera House you found from your search

• gather all your evidence and print it out in an organised way to show how you completed the tasks.

You are working in a travel agency. The manager, Mevish, has asked you

to help her collect some information about Australia.

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End of Part A

Part B

Processing Information

Internet access is NOT allowed

Q 3

Open the file GWTravel2 and enter your name in a header. Save the file with a

meaningful name.

(2 marks)

Q 4

Using ICT tools:

• Calculate the Total Holiday Cost for each destination

• Flag the holidays that meet the request

• Print your results.

(7 marks)

The travel agency has a competition.

The prize is a holiday with a total value of £4,500.00.

The agency has prepared some information about holidays that the

winner can choose from. Some of this information needs to be updated.

Your manager, Mevish, has asked you to help.

Mevish wants to make it easy to compare the holidays, so that her staff can

explain the different options to customers.

She has had a request to identify the holidays of 10 days or more, with a

flight cost of less than £1000.

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Q 5

Using ICT software:

• Format the data in the spreadsheet so that it is fully displayed, and easier to read

• Present the data first so that the destinations are in alphabetical order and then

with the most expensive flight appearing first.

(11 marks)

Q 6

Using ICT software:

• Display only those destinations with a total holiday cost of at least £2,000 and a

duration of at least 10 days.

(5 marks)

Evidence you must provide: Printouts and/or screenshots as appropriate to show:

• the data showing the values you have calculated

• the data in the order requested in the task

• holidays meeting the requested criteria appropriately flagged

• the filtered data

• all formulae used in the spreadsheet to carry out the tasks in Q 5 and 6.

A customer has enquired about holidays that cost more than £2,000 and are at least 10 days long. Mevish needs you to find out this information for her.

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Part B continued

Presenting Information

Internet access is NOT allowed

Q 7

Use the file GWPlan2 and the information about Australia and the image that you found

in Part A to produce a holiday plan.

• Make sure that the information in the holiday plan is clearly and accurately

presented.

• Enter your name in the footer.

• Save the document in the folder you created in Part A.

(8 marks)

Evidence you must provide:

• A printout of the Holiday Plan

The winner of the competition has selected Australia for the holiday. Mevish has started to create a holiday plan for the winners. She wants you to complete it.

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Sharing Information

Internet access is NOT allowed

Q 8

Draft an email for Mevish containing all the information she has requested.

Remember to include:

• the web address (the URL) you found in Part A

• one way that Mevish can use the internet to work with colleagues in offices in

other cities/countries.

(7 marks)

Q9

Show evidence of the folder and all of the files that you have created and used.

(2 marks)

Evidence you must provide:

• a screen shot of the prepared email

• a screen shot showing how you organised the files you have saved in

the folder you have created.

End of Assessment

These texts and illustrations have been incorporated into this test paper solely for the

purposes of the examination in accordance with Section 32 of the Copyright, Designs

and Patents Act 1988, as amended by the Copyright and Rights in Performance

(Research, Education, Libraries and Archives) Regulations 2014. No copyright or

clearance for any other use has been obtained or sought.

Mevish wants you to email the holiday plan to her as an attachment. She

has also asked for a link to the information about Sydney opera house

that you found earlier.

Mevish would also like to know how she can use online collaboration

methods to work with colleagues.

Her email address is: Mevish@GW.acred.uk

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