Input Devices

1. Name the input devices which would read the information from objects A, B, C and D
using the words from the list.

A Choose a device.

B Choose a device.

C Choose a device.

D Choose a device.
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2. Choose two items which are used to input data to a computer.

Keyboard
Monitor
Printer
Robot arm

Scanner

Speaker
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3. Choose three input devices.

Monitor
Scanner

Plotter

Printer

Speaker

Touchpad

Joystick
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4. Choose two input devices which would be used to input data about a borrower in a
library.
Bar code reader
CD ROM drive
Joystick
Keyboard

Speaker

Touchpad
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5. Choose two ways that data can be entered at an ATM (cash machine).
bar code reader
graphics tablet
joystick
keypad

magnetic stripe

plotter
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6. Choose one item which allows musical instruments to be connected to a computer.

Choose an item.
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7. Tick the box if the following items are hardware.
Hardware?
Video camera
Scanner
Digital camera
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8. A video shop is going to use a computer to input all the details of its members and its
videos. Tick one item of hardware that will be required to do this.
Hardware
Sensor
Bar code reader
Database
Desk top publisher
Graph plotter
Control software
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9. Choose whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE.
TRUE
OMR is used to read data from school registers.
OCR is used to read data from bank cheques.
MICR is used to read data from bar codes.
A speaker is an Input Device.
OMR is used in a bank for reading cheques.
Bar code readers are used at point of sales terminals
Sensors are used in a computerised weather station

FALSE

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10. Choose a use from each list to match the hardware.
Hardware
Use
Optical mark reader
Choose a use
Magnetic stripe reader

Choose a use

Touch screen

Choose a use
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11. Some pupils want to record themselves speaking. Their voices will be added to the
presentation. Name a device which their computer will need to do this.

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12. Describe two features of a mouse.
1 .
2 .
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13. Complete each sentence.
Data from the back of a cheque card is input using choose an item.
Inputting text directly from a document is done by using choose an item.
Data from a tin of beans in a supermarket is input using choose an item.
An item of hardware which is connected to a computer so that it can read data such as
temperatures is called a choose an item.
School registers are read using choose an item.
Pupil multiple choice exam answers are read using choose an item.
Bank cheques are read using .

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14. A customer file will contain details of what the customer looks like. State two input
devices which would be suitable for inputting an image of the person into this file.
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15. A supermarket uses EFTPOS terminals.

(a) After goods have been passed through a checkout a customer can pay by credit or
debit card.
Name two items of information found in the magnetic strip on the back of the card.
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2
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(b) When goods are bought, the product numbers of the goods and the customers bank
card number are input.
What input devices are normally used to input:
(i) the product numbers of the goods bought?

(ii) the customers bank card number?

(iii) the customers PIN number?

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16. Computers are now widely used in libraries. When a book is borrowed the borrower
presents the book and his card to the librarian.
Name an input device, other than a keypad, which would be most suitable for entering
the details from the borrower and the book.
Borrower
Book

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17. When customers come in to rent a video in future they will show their card. Give a
method of data input which could be used instead of typing in the customers number.
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18. A school is going to introduce an automatic registration system controlled by computer.
Students will carry a card which will be automatically read by an input device every
morning so that the school office will know that they are present.
Name a suitable input device to read the card.
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19. A school office uses a computer to input data from class registers and at the end of each
week the number of absences is calculated and output for each pupil. Give one input
device which the office would need to use.
Input device
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20. At a supermarket checkout customers present their purchases to the checkout operator.
Each item in a supermarket has a code number.
(a) State two ways in which this number may be entered into a point of sales (POS)
terminal.
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(b) Write down two reasons why one of the methods you gave in (a) is better than the
other.
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2
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