06+Business

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= = = = = = =Exam Questions = = = 1. A building company uses specialist CAD software on powerful stand alone computers.

(a) Select any two of the following features of a CAD package, give a definition of the feature and describe an advantage of each feature to an architect when designing a new house. Hatching/rendering, stress/strain, walkthrough.

(b) With reference to appropriate examples, give three benefits that networking would give the building company. [3]

2. A large supermarket company has shops distributed across the country and they make use of ICT in their computerised shopping systems.

(a) Describe how data is input, output and stored when using point of sale systems. [3] (b) Describe the processes involved in automatic stock control. [3] (c) Discuss the benefits to the: (i) company of automatic stock control; [3 × 2] (ii) customer of e-commerce systems. [2] (d) Describe the potential disadvantages to the company of using computer based shopping systems. [2] Quality of Written Communication [2]