Automated and emerging technologies — AS & A Level Information Technology (9626) questions by topic
Automated and emerging technologies questions explain how an expert system such as forward chaining supports a medical diagnosis, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a flight simulator, trace an expert system's decision path for identifying a bird, and describe the processing behind an automatic stock control system.
Describe, explain, discuss, identify and state lead the command words, worth 5 to 13 marks across 7 questions from 2023 and 2024 papers. These scenario-based problems reward step-by-step processing detail, so working each one through and submitting it for instant marking shows exactly where a stage in the automated decision chain has been skipped or described too generally.
May–June 2024, Paper 11
Describe the computer processing involved in an automatic stock control system.
Answer this question and get it marked →A bank uses an expert system to help customers with financial planning. (a) Describe the use of four components of an expert system. Your answers must relate to financial planning.
Answer this question and get it marked →An airline company uses a flight simulator to train its pilots. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using a flight simulator in this scenario.
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2023, Paper 12
A doctor uses an expert system to help the doctor diagnose the illnesses of her patients. Explain how an expert system is used to help the doctor produce the diagnosis of an…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2023, Paper 13
An expert system is being trialled for use as part of a study on animal identification. It has been set the following task. The goal is to decide the colour of a bird named…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 12
There can be a digital divide between people who live in rural areas and people who live in urban areas. The divide can be caused by the lack of fast broadband in rural areas,…
Answer this question and get it marked →October–November 2023, Paper 32
Stored value cards are used to make financial transactions. (a) Explain four benefits of using stored value cards for financial transactions.
Answer this question and get it marked →Other AS & A Level Information Technology topics
- Spreadsheets (30)
- Software (22)
- Security (21)
- The impact of IT (21)
- Multimedia (20)
- Data and information (17)
- Databases (16)
- Systems development life cycle (13)
- Networks (10)
- Web authoring (8)
- Programming (8)
- Hardware (7)
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