Year 11 IPT Questions

- Plastic cards
- Automatic teller machines (ATMs)
- Electronic funds transfer at point of scale (EFTPOS)

- Word processors
- Spreadsheets
- Databases

- Word processing
- Desktop publishing software

- Access to a range of software programs
- Internet

- Store and analyse huge amounts of information using information technology.

- Privacy
- Security and accuracy of data and information
- Changing nature of work
- Appropriate use of information
- Copyright

The progress in information technology

- Keep track of income and expenses.
- Publish a weekly newsletter for a local athletics club.
- Design a multimedia presentation for the next staff meeting.
- Communicate with other people on the Internet.

- Provide stock inventory, sales, payroll, share market, commodity prices of interest rates information.
- Assist decision-making by summarising and comparing data.
- Share data and information between individuals and offices in different locations.
- Store and organise information on consumer trends, competition products or labour costs.

Direct users or users.

- Input
- Processing
- Storage
- Control
- Output

- Personal computer
- Midrange
- Mainframe
- Supercomputer

- Application software
- System software

1. Collecting
2. Organising
3. Analysing
4. Storing and retrieving
5. Processing
6. Transmiting and receiving
7. Displaying

- Define the required data (decide what data is needed).
- Identify the source of the data (where the data is needed).
- Determine how the data will be gathered (what tools will be required).
- Gather the data (collect and enter the data into the information).