Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION
NOVEMBER 2017
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II
Time: 3 hours 180 marks
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY
1. This question paper consists of 12 pages and an HTML Tag List insert of one page.
Please check that your question paper is complete.
2. You may only use text-based editors for the HTML section, namely Notepad,
Notepad ++, WordPad and Komodo text editor.
3. You must answer ALL the questions. Please read the entire question before
attempting a solution. Do not do more than is required by the question.
4. Take note of the mark allocation to ascertain the solution required and the amount
of time needed to be spent on each question.
5. It is in your best interest to get into the habit of saving regularly.
6. If a formula/function such as a complicated if statement does not work, indicate the
question number, give a brief explanation, and paste a screenshot of the
spreadsheet or database into the Screenshots document to obtain part marks; you
may then leave it out of the spreadsheet or database program.
7. It is recommended that you make a backup copy of all database files before you
start your examination.
8. All word processing documents should be set up as follows (unless other
instructions are given)
The default for measuring units – centimetres (cm)
Language – English (South Africa)
Page size – A4
Margins – 2,54 cm
9. Note that you may use the offline help function available in each application.
IEB Copyright © 2017 PLEASE TURN OVER
Skip to contentQuestion paper 











View all





Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2017 QP
IEB Grade 12 Computer Applications Technology Paper 2 question paper from the 2017, 12 pages. Read online or get the free PDF download, memo linked when available.
Publisher: IEB
Computer Applications Technology · Grade 12 · 2017. Question paper, 12 pages. Read online or download the PDF.
- Subject
- Computer Applications Technology
- Grade
- Grade 12
- Document type
- Question paper
- Year
- 2017
- Paper
- 2
- Publisher
- IEB
- Curriculum
- IEB
- Pages
- 12
- File size
- 888.1 KB
Loading document…
Loading document…
1 of 12
Document textSearch extracted text and jump to a page.
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 2 of 12
10. Figures in the question paper have a border. When a figure is provided as part of a
question, you are not expected to add the border unless specifically instructed to do
so.
11. All data files listed in Instruction 12 can be found on the network drive that has
been allocated for this examination. Please note that all solutions must be saved to
your examination folder on this network drive.
12. You have been supplied with one subfolder and 21 files in your examination folder.
Refer to Figure 1 below and check that the following folders and files exist in your
examination folder:
Figure 1
The Website subfolder contains 2 files and 1 subfolder. Refer to Figure 2 below.
Figure 2
The Images subfolder within the Website folder contains 2 files. Refer to Figure 3
below.
Figure 3
IEB Copyright © 2017
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 3 of 12
Read the scenario below that describes the background to the practical tasks you
are required to perform.
SCENARIO
You are worried about the effect social networking and media is having on your
younger sibling.
QUESTION 1
1.1 Set the file Personal Thought to be hidden. (1)
1.2 Modify the word processing document Letterhead to be a document
template. (2)
1.3 Organise your preloads as follows:
1.3.1 Create a folder called Archive. (1)
1.3.2 Move all files that were modified in the year 2015 or earlier into this
folder. (2)
1.4 Rename the file Candidate to your examination number. (1)
Open the word processing document Computer Management and answer the
following questions in the appropriate section:
1.5 Provide the brand name and version of the operating system you are using. (2)
1.6 Modify your examination folder's view as follows:
Change the view to details.
Order by type descending.
Capture a screenshot of this view and paste it into the correct place in
the Computer Management document. (3)
1.7 Provide the following information regarding the file Heart.jpg.
1.7.1 Author (1)
1.7.2 File size (1)
1.8 Provide a screenshot of the html editor you will be using for this examination
and paste it into the correct place in the Computer Management document. (1)
1.9 Your sibling's computer's disk space is full; provide instructions on how to
run a disk clean-up. Place your answer in the correct place in the
Computer Management document. (3)
1.10 Capture a screenshot of the disk space your system drive has left on your
machine and paste it into the correct place in the Computer Management
document. (2)
Add your Examination Number to the header of the document.
Save and close the document Computer Management.
[20]
IEB Copyright © 2017 PLEASE TURN OVER
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 4 of 12
QUESTION 2
Open the document Fake News and make the following changes:
2.1 Modify the page margins as follows:
2.1.1 Set the Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins to be 3 cm. (1)
2.1.2 Set the gutter to be 1 cm. (1)
2.2 Add a border around the whole document as follows:
2.2.1 Add a shadow border around the whole document. (2)
2.2.2 Set the border width to be 3 pt. (1)
2.3 Insert an automatic table of contents directly after the title 'Fake News'. (2)
2.4 Modify the header and footer of the document as follows:
2.4.1 Set it so that the document has a different header and footer on the
first page. (1)
2.4.2 Add your examination number to the header of the first page. (1)
2.4.3 Add an automatically updating date in the right of the footer in the
section of the document starting on the second page of the
document. (2)
2.5 Create a new character style in the document as follows:
2.5.1 Name the new character style Reference. (2)
2.5.2 Set the font family to Verdana. (1)
2.5.3 Set the font effects to be subscript. (1)
2.5.4 Set the font colour to be red. (1)
2.5.5 Apply the style to the text '[howstuffworks.com on 2017/02/01]' at the
top of the second page. (1)
2.6 Modify the Heading 2 style as follows:
2.6.1 Set the paragraph to have a 12 pt before spacing. (1)
2.6.2 Set the shading to grey. (1)
2.7 Add a link back to the top of the document as follows:
2.7.1 Insert the text 'Back to top' at the end of the document. (1)
2.7.2 Hyperlink this text to the top of the document. (2)
Save and close the document Fake news.
[22]
IEB Copyright © 2017
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 5 of 12
QUESTION 3
You decide to create a poster for your neighbourhood on promoting wise use of digital
platforms.
Open the document Smart and make the following changes:
3.1 Modify the page setup as follows:
3.1.1 Set the orientation of the document to portrait. (1)
3.1.2 Set the paper size of the document to A3. (1)
3.2 Add a footnote to the text 'compare' that displays the words: 'People only
post the best of themselves'. (2)
3.3 Set the font size of all text to 32. (1)
3.4 Add a Drop Cap to each of the two sentences. (2)
3.5 Insert an image as follows:
3.5.1 Insert the image Gossip below the last line of text. (1)
3.5.2 Set the paragraph alignment to right. (1)
3.5.3 Set it to NOT lock the aspect ratio. (1)
3.5.4 Set the height to 25 cm and the width to 18 cm. (1)
3.5.5 Add a double red frame around the picture. (2)
Add your Examination Number to the header of the document.
Save and close the document Smart.
[13]
IEB Copyright © 2017 PLEASE TURN OVER
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 6 of 12
QUESTION 4
You want to create a letter for all your friends with younger siblings, so that they
can also look after their brother and sisters.
Open the word processing document Letter and make the following changes:
4.1 Modify the table as follow:
4.1.1 Merge the two cells in the first row. (1)
4.1.2 Set the first row to have a light blue shading. (1)
4.1.3 Modify the border of the table to have a 3 pt double outer border and
no lines within the table. (2)
4.2 Add a comment to the text '201 Facebook Friends' that displays the words
'Few, if any, teens have met that many people in person'. (2)
4.3 Create a right-aligned tab stop at 15 cm with a dotted leader for all text from
after 'Proposed wisdom to share' to 'Block the person'. The first part of each
line must be at the left margin. (3)
4.4 Merge the document as follows:
4.4.1 Link the document to the data source Friends using the sheet named
Data. (2)
4.4.2 Apply a filter to the data source so that it will only use records where
the Younger sibling field is 'Yes'. (2)
4.4.3 Replace the text 'friend' with the two merge fields First name and
Last name separated by a space. (2)
Add your Examination Number in the header of the document.
Save and close the document Letter.
[15]
IEB Copyright © 2017
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 7 of 12
QUESTION 5
You have gathered some statistics on friends in your social network, and now
need to add formatting and calculations to the data to improve the usefulness of
the data.
Open the spreadsheet Statistics and note that the workbook consists of seven
worksheets, namely Posts, Summary, Users, Pages, Adverts, Q 5.17 and Posts 2.
Note that all the changes below must be applied to the worksheet labelled Posts.
5.1 Set the width of Columns A, B, C, D and E to 13. (2)
5.2 Format cell ranges A1:E1 as follows:
Set a double border at the bottom of the cells
No other border
Bold
Yellow Fill (4)
5.3 Add the page number field to the right of the footer section. (2)
5.4 Replace all occurrences of the word 'celibration' with the word 'Celebration'. (2)
5.5 Sort all the data by Topic ascending and then by User descending. (3)
5.6 Filter the data so that only messages with the topic 'Relationships' that are
over 150 characters are displayed. (3)
5.7 Apply conditional formatting to column B as follows:
Anger should have a red fill
Mourning should have a blue fill
Bored should have a yellow fill (3)
Note that all the changes below must be applied to the worksheet labelled Summary.
5.8 Insert a calculation in B2 to determine the average number of characters
per post in the worksheet labelled Posts. (2)
5.9 Insert a calculation in B3 to determine the median number of characters per
post in the worksheet labelled Posts. (2)
5.10 Insert a calculation in B4 to determine the number of posts in the worksheet
labelled Posts per the gender given in A4. Expand this calculation down to
B5. (3)
IEB Copyright © 2017 PLEASE TURN OVER
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 8 of 12
Note that all the changes below must be applied to the worksheet labelled Users.
5.11 A user's formal name consists of their title, followed by a space, followed by
the first letter of their first name, followed by a full stop and space, followed
by their surname.
For example, Mr Neil Patrick's formal name would be Mr N. Patrick.
In column E (Q 5.11) insert a function to determine the user's formal name.
Expand the calculation so that all users' formal names will be determined. (5)
5.12 In column G (Q 5.12) insert a function to determine the age the user will be
turning this year. The age should automatically update each year. Expand
the calculation so that all users' ages will be calculated. (3)
Note that all the changes below must be applied to the worksheet labelled Pages.
5.13 Format the values in Column E to be percentage. (1)
5.14 In column F, insert a calculation to determine the number of visits that are
return visits.
Return Visits = Visits x Return visitors
Expand the calculation so that all pages' return visits pm (per month) will be
calculated. (3)
5.15 By utilising the data in cells A1:C5 on the Pages worksheet, recreate the
following chart exactly as given on a new sheet, refer to Figure 4. (4)
Page Comparison
4 000
3 500
3 000
2 500
2 000
1 500
1 000
500
0
Likes Visits
Quantem Volleyball City of Joburg ProServ South Africa 0Firefly
Figure 4
IEB Copyright © 2017
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 9 of 12
Note that all the changes below must be applied to the worksheet labelled Adverts.
5.16 The cost of an advert differs depending on the type of organisation
indicated in column B (Type). If an organisation is an NPO, the cost is 100,
otherwise it is 600. In column C (Q 5.16), insert a function to determine the
organisation's cost per advert. Expand the calculation so that all
organisations' costs will be determined. (3)
Note that all the changes below must be applied to the worksheet labelled Q 5.17.
5.17 Insert a calculation in cell B1 to determine which user had the most posts
from the Posts 2 sheet. You may add any appropriate data and calculations
to the rest of this worksheet and/or the Posts 2 worksheet to achieve this. (5)
Add your Examination Number in the header of each worksheet.
Save and close the workbook Statistics.
[50]
IEB Copyright © 2017 PLEASE TURN OVER
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 10 of 12
QUESTION 6
You design your own social media system called Socks where people are friends
with everyone subscribed.
Open the database Socks and apply the following changes:
6.1 Import data from the text file called Event into the Event table. (2)
6.2 Apply the following changes to the table Page:
6.2.1 Set the field page_id to be the primary key field. (1)
6.2.2 Set the type field to look up from the values Sport, Relationship,
Corporate and Academic. (3)
6.2.3 Add a field called Admin, which will look up the field user_name from
the table User. (3)
6.3 Apply the following changes to the table User:
6.3.1 Ensure the Gender field has accurate input from the user as follows:
Set the field size to 1
Add a validation rule to only allow 'M' or 'F' (3)
6.3.2 Add an input mask to the phone field to ensure a phone number is
entered in the format as in the example (072) 555-1234 and all
numbers must be entered. Please refer to Figure 5 for a list of
characters that define input masks. (3)
Char Explanation Char Explanation Char Explanation
User can enter a
User must enter a User can enter a
0 9 # digit, plus or minus
digit (0 to 9) digit (0 to 9)
sign.
User must enter a User can enter a User must enter a
L ? A
letter letter letter or a digit
User must enter User can enter
User can enter a
a & either a character or C characters or
letter or a digit
a space spaces.
Decimal and
Converts all Converts all
thousands
.,:;-/ > characters that < characters that
placeholders, date
follow to uppercase. follow to lowercase.
and time separators.
Characters Characters enclosed
Causes the input
immediately in double quotation
! mask to fill from the \ “”
following will be marks will be
left to right.
displayed literally displayed literally.
Figure 5
IEB Copyright © 2017
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 11 of 12
6.4 Create a new table called Advert as follows:
6.4.1 Create a primary key field called Advert_id of an appropriate data
type. (3)
6.4.2 Create a field called title of the text data type and the format to
ensure capital letters. (2)
6.4.3 Create a field called cost of a currency data type and set it to be
required. (2)
6.5 Create a form as follows:
6.5.1 Create a form called User_post using only the user_name,
first_name and last_name fields from the table User and only the
post and Likes fields from the table Post. Ensure the form is grouped
by the User table, and that the subform is called Post Subform. (3)
6.5.2 Edit the label in the form header to 'Users with their posts' and
include your examination number. (1)
6.5.3 Set the Default View Property of the Post Subform to Single Form. (1)
6.5.4 Open the Post Subform separately and add a button to the subform
containing the posts, which will delete the current post. The caption
of the button should be 'Delete'. (3)
6.6 Create queries as follows:
6.6.1 Create a query called Academic, which will display only the
page_title field of all records in the table Page with the type
'Academic'. (3)
6.6.2 Create a query called Popular, which will display all fields from the
table Post where the user was 'OneLiner' and with the Likes over 40. (4)
6.7 Create a report as follows:
Create a report called Posts, using all fields from the table Post and
grouped by the field user. (3)
Save and close the database Socks.
[40]
IEB Copyright © 2017 PLEASE TURN OVER
Downloaded from hlayiso.com
NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE: COMPUTER APPLICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: PAPER II Page 12 of 12
QUESTION 7
You have been asked to update the Networks and Thoughts pages of a website
promoting good social networking practices.
Open Networks.html in the subfolder Website and apply the following changes:
7.1 Add a title to the page to read 'Good practice' and include your Examination
number. (2)
7.2 Set the background colour of the table to be green. (2)
7.3 Edit the first cell in the first row as follows:
7.3.1 Span the cell over two columns. (2)
7.3.2 Set the cell to have a horizontal alignment of center. (2)
7.4 Set the width of the first cell on the second row to 250. (2)
7.5 Hyperlink the text 'Next page' to the web page Thoughts.html. (2)
Save and close Networks.html.
Open Thoughts.html in the subfolder Website and apply the following changes:
7.6 Add a heading as follows:
7.6.1 Add a level 1 heading of 'Thought-provoking events'. (2)
7.6.2 Set the font colour to be red. (2)
7.7 Add an image to the page as follows:
7.7.1 Add the image Harambe.jpg located in the subfolder called Images
within the Website folder. (2)
7.7.2 Set the width and height of the image to 250. (2)
Save and close Thoughts.html.
[20]
Total: 180 marks
IEB Copyright © 2017
Study this subject
Revise the topics in this paper, then practise them question by question.
- Grade 12 Computer Applications Technology notes
CAPS revision notes with worked examples.
- Computer Applications Technology questions by topic
Past exam questions sorted by CAPS topic, with memos where available.
- Grade 12 Computer Applications Technology quizzes
Short topic quizzes with instant feedback.
- All Grade 12 Computer Applications Technology past papers
Past papers by year, with memos where available.
- Grade 12 IEB past papers
More Computer Applications Technology and other subjects in this collection.
Recommended for this subject
More papers and memos for this grade and subject.

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P1 2019 QP

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P1 2019 QP (Afr)

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2019 QP

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2019 QP (Afr)

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2019 QP

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2019 QP (Afr)
Related documents

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2017 QP (Afr)

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2017 QP

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2017 QP (Afr)

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2017 QP

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2017 QP (Afr)

MemorandumIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB Paper 2 2017 Memo
More from Grade 12 Computer Applications Technology

MemorandumIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB Paper 1 2019 Memo

MemorandumIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P1 2019 Memo (Afr)

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2019 QP

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P2 2019 QP (Afr)

Question paperIEB
Computer Applications Technology Grade 12 IEB P1 2018 QP

Question paperIEB