# Information Technology Grade 12 P1 Eastern Cape Mock 2012 QP > Grade 12 Information Technology Paper 1 question paper from the Eastern Cape Mock Exam 2012 (English), 11 pages. 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Layout, diagrams and tables may not survive extraction. ### Page 1 Downloaded from hlayiso.com Province of the EASTERN CAPE EDUCATION NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 SEPTEMBER 2012 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 MARKS: 120 TIME 3 hours *INFDM1* This question paper consists of 11 pages. ### Page 2 Downloaded from hlayiso.com 2 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012) INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. This is a three-hour examination. Because of the nature of this examination it is important to note that you will NOT be permitted to leave the examination room before the end of the examination session. 2. You require the files listed below in order to answer the questions. They are EITHER on a stiffy disk OR CD issued to you, OR the invigilator/educator will tell you where to find them on the hard drive of the workstation you are using OR in which network folder it is. If the files are issued to you on a CD, you need to copy them onto your hard disk. QUESTION 1 Question1_u.pas Question1_p.dpr Question1_u.dfm School.mdb LearnersTb.txt EducatorsTb.txt QUESTION 2 Question2_u.pas Question2_p.dpr Question2_u.dfm Learner.txt QUESTION 3 Question3_u.pas Question3_p.dpr Question3_u.dfm If a disk or CD containing the files was issued to you, write your surname on the label. 3. Save your work at regular intervals as a precaution against power failures. When saving please replace the ‘X’ with your surname. 4. Read ALL the questions carefully. Do only what is required by the question. 5. During the examination you may use the manuals originally supplied with the hardware and software. You may also use the HELP functions of the software. You may NOT refer to any other resource material. 6. At the end of this examination session you will be required to hand in the stiffy or CD given to you by the invigilator with your work saved on it, or you must make sure that all your work has been saved on the network as explained to you by the invigilator/educator. Ensure that all files can be read. 7. You also have to hand in printouts of the programming code for all the questions you have done. 8. All printing of programming questions will take place within an hour of the completion of the examination. ### Page 3 Downloaded from hlayiso.com (SEPTEMBER 2012) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 3 SCENARIO Schools need to determine staffing for the following year and it is all dependent on the subject choices of each grade. With the Grade 9s choosing their new subjects, they need to be advised on the different subjects as well as requirements of certain subjects. For example, to do Physical Sciences and Information Technology, Mathematics is advisable. Another concern is to ensure that learners that cannot cope with the demands of Mathematics opt for Mathematical Literacy. QUESTION 1: DATABASE AND DELPHI The database, School.mdb, which contains data related to this topic, has been supplied to you in a folder named Question 1. Two text files have been supplied as well. If you cannot use the database provided, use the text files named EducatorsTb.txt and LearnersTb.txt to create your own database named School containing two tables named LearnersTb and EducatorsTb. Change the data types of the fields of the tables to the specifications given below. The EducatorsTb table stores data on the educators. The fields in this table are defined as follows: The following table is an example of the data contained in the table named EducatorsTb in the database named School.mdb. ### Page 4 Downloaded from hlayiso.com 4 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012) The LearnersTb table stores data on the learners in Grade 9. The fields in this table are defined as follows: The following table is an example of the data contained in the table named LearnersTb in the database named School.mdb. ### Page 5 Downloaded from hlayiso.com (SEPTEMBER 2012) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 5 You have also been supplied with an incomplete Delphi program with a unit named Question1_U and a project named Question1_P in the folder named Question 1. Open the incomplete program. The program should be able to connect to the database named School.mdb. When you do QUESTION 1.1 and you find that the connectivity is not in place, use the following steps to establish connection with the database: Click on the ADOQuery component named qrySchool. Click on the Ellipse button (three dots) to the right of the ConnectionString property in the Object Inspector. Click on the Build button which takes you to the Data Link Properties dialogue box. Select Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider and click on Next. The first option on the Connection tab sheet allows you to browse and find the School.mdb file. Remove the user name Admin. Click on the Test Connection button. Click OK on each one of the open dialogue windows. NOTE: If you cannot establish connectivity with the database at all when you execute the program you must still do and submit the programming code for marking. Marks will be awarded for the programming code that contains the SQL statements in the unit named Question1_U as well as code that makes use of an inputbox as required by the question. ### Page 6 Downloaded from hlayiso.com 6 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012) 1.1 Complete the code in the All Educators button by formulating an SQL statement to display all the fields in the EducatorsTb table in alphabetical order according to the surnames. Example of output of the first few records: (3) 1.2 Complete the code in the Languages button by formulating an SQL statement to display the Title, Surname and TeacherCode fields in the EducatorsTb table of all the teachers that teach a language (ENG/AFR/XHO). Example of output: (5) 1.3 Complete the code in the Subject Numbers button by formulating an SQL statement that will determine how many Grade 9s have chosen to take a particular subject as entered via an inputbox. Display with a suitable heading. Example of output if IT (which is in subject combination 5 – S5) was entered: (5) ### Page 7 Downloaded from hlayiso.com (SEPTEMBER 2012) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 7 1.4 Complete the code in the CAT May button by formulating an SQL statement that will display the name and surname of all the learners who will be in Mrs May’s CAT class the following year. Mrs May’s code is AM. Example of output of the first few records: (3) 1.5 The Art teacher has resigned and the school has decided not to offer Art to the future Grade 10s as there is not enough interest, but to let them rather change to Life Sciences. Complete the code in the Art button by formulating an SQL statement to update the change from Art to Life Science (LSC) in the LearnersTb. Display all the fields in the LearnersTb table once the change has been made. (5) 1.6 The Grade Head wants to ensure that all the classes are roughly the same size. Complete the code in the Class Size button by formulating an SQL statement that will display the class as well as the total number of learners in each class. Example of output: (4) 1.7 Complete the code in the CONS or TOUR button by formulating an SQL statement to display all the fields of the learners who want to do Consumer Studies (CONS) or Tourism (TOUR), which are both in Subject Combination 7 (S7), and are in the ‘G’ class. Example of the output of the first few lines: (5) Enter your name and surname as a comment line in the first line of the file named Question1_UX.pas containing the SQL statements. Save the unit Question1_UX and the project Question1_PX (File|Save All). Make a printout of the code of the Question1_UX.pas file. [30] ### Page 8 Downloaded from hlayiso.com 8 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012) QUESTION 2: DELPHI PROGRAMMING This question is intended to test object-oriented programming skills. You are required to produce a solution that includes all classes specified in the instructions. No marks will be allocated to any alternative solution such as one program not creating an object. You have been supplied with a text file named Learner.txt, which contains information regarding Grade 9 learners. The contents of the text file is shown below: The name and surname is given first, then the English mark followed by the Mathematics mark. 2.1 Create an object class (another unit) named Subjects_UX and save this unit as Subjects_UX in your Question2_X folder (X should be replaced by your surname). Write the following code as part of this class: 2.1.1 Define a class named TLearner. This class must contain the following private fields: fname feng fmaths faverage Ensure that you choose appropriate data types for these fields. (4) 2.1.2 Write a parameterised constructor method which accepts the name, English and Maths marks. All the fields must be initialised in the constructor. (5) 2.1.3 Write a method named CalcAverage which calculates the average of the Eng. and Maths marks. (3) 2.1.4 Write a Boolean method named Qualify which will determine the subjects which each learner may take in Grade 10 depending on their Grade 9 marks. In order to qualify their average for English and Maths (faverage) must be 60 or more. The method must return true if the learner qualifies to do IT, Physical Sciences or Mathematics and false if they do not qualify. (4) 2.1.5 Write a method named tostring that builds and returns a string with information about each learner: fnamefengfmathsfaverage (3) ### Page 9 Downloaded from hlayiso.com (SEPTEMBER 2012) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 9 2.1.6 Write an appropriately named ‘get’ method (accessor method) to return the name of the learner. (2) 2.1.7 Write an appropriately named ‘get’ method (accessor method) to return the average of the learner. (2) 2.2 Write code to do the following in the Question2_UX unit in the given program. 2.2.1 Create an array named arrLearners that holds objects of TLearner. Write code in the OnActivate Event Handler of the form to read information from the text file Learner.txt according to the following steps: a) Test if the file exists. Display a suitable message if the file does not exist and terminate the program. b) Use a loop to ... Read a line of text from the text file Separate the text into the name, English mark and Math mark Use this information to create a new TLearner object and place the object in the array named arrLearners. C) Use a counter variable to keep track of how many items there are in the array. (13) 2.2.2 Menu Option: AVERAGE Display the name and average of the Mathematics and English marks for each learner. (4) 2.2.3 Menu Option: IT, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS Call the tostring method to display the information of all the learners who qualify to do either IT, Maths or Physical Sciences. (4) 2.2.4 Menu Option: SEARCH FOR A LEARNER Allow the user to enter the name of a learner. A suitable message must be displayed if the name was found or not. (11) Enter your name and surname as a comment line in the first line of the files named Question2_UX.pas and Subjects_UX.pas. Save the units Question2_UX, Subjects_UX and the project Question2_PX (File|Save All). Make a printout of the code of the Question2_UX.pas as well as the Subjects_UX.pas file. [55] ### Page 10 Downloaded from hlayiso.com 10 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 (SEPTEMBER 2012) QUESTION 3: DELPHI PROGRAMMING The Grade 10s have decided that they will be collecting donations for a charity organisation over a period of 4 weeks. The grade head has asked the Grade 12 IT class to write a program to manage the fundraising. 3.1 Write code for the FormCreate EventHandler that will place row headings (Class 1 – 7) and column headings (Week 1 – 4) in the StringGrid component. This procedure must also generate random numbers between 100 and 600 (inclusive) which will represent the amount of money collected each week by the respective classes. Example of output: (8) 3.2 Write a procedure named CalculateTotals that will calculate the total amount of money collected by all the classes for each week. Display a heading as well as the totals for each week. (7) 3.3 Write a procedure named CalculateAvgWeek that will calculate the average amount of money collected by all the classes for each week. Display a heading as well as the averages for each week. (9) 3.4 Complete the code for the Calculate Totals and Averages EventHandler which will call the respective procedures. Example of output: (2) ### Page 11 Downloaded from hlayiso.com (SEPTEMBER 2012) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY P1 11 3.5 Complete code for the Class that raised the most money EventHandler which will determine which class raised the most money. Use a ShowMessage component to display the winning class. Example of output: (9) Enter your name and surname as a comment line in the first line of the file named Question3_UX.pas. Save the unit Question3_UX and the project Question3_PX (File|Save All). Make a printout of the code of the Question3_UX.pas file. 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