Topic Test 5.1 QP

T-Level Digital
Test 1 Name: Dylan Thornton
19th Jan 2021
Time: 1 hour
Marks: 26 marks
Instructions: Answer all questions.

You must answer the questions in the spaces provided.
You must NOT use a calculator.
Information: There are no additional materials required for this paper.

The marks for questions are shown in brackets.
The maximum mark for this paper is 26.
You are reminded of the need for good English and clear
presentation in your answers.
For Examiners Use

Question Mark Question Mark
1 6
2 7
3 8
4 9
5 10
TOTAL %
1
Word Process your answers using the lines below each question has been clearly
labelled and written with the question number.
1. Horse Support Society (HSS) is a growing medium-sized charity. It makes and sells a range
of animal-related products such as saddles in order to support horse welfare.
Choosing from the list below, tick one box to correctly identify the statement which is a
feature of a charity.
2. Using an example other than HSS, give one reason why charities exist.
Cancer Research exists to help treat those with cancer by raising money which is used to help
treat cancer patients, develop and trial new treatments [2]
3. Explain how HSS might affect other businesses in its local area.
Other people might go to HSS instead of other local businesses as people might volunteer to
work there instead of the other businesses. [2]
4. HSS has many stakeholders. State two possible stakeholders and explain why they may have
an interest in HSS.
Stakeholder 1
Donors
Interest in HSS
If they have donated they obviously show an interest in the charity and would like to help out.
Stakeholder 2
Other charities
2
Interest in HSS
Multiple charities can help each other out and could raise more money that way. [4]
5. HSS’ internal organisational structure has changed over time. One further change now being
considered is whether to introduce a tall structure as shown in Fig. 1b, as opposed to the
current flat structure shown in Fig. 1a.
Recommend whether HSS should choose a flat organisational structure or a tall organisational
structure. In your answer, explain why you chose one structure, and why you rejected the other
structure.
I think the tall structure is better because it there are better levels of authority rather than the flat
structure. In the flat structure all workers report to one manager and the manager reports to one
managing director, but the tall structure is better because the roles are separated so there are groups of
workers working for different deputy managers. The tall structure also gives employees a specialty so
different jobs can be split up into multiple sections [6]
Read the case study below and answer questions 6-10
3
6. Complete the sentence below using one of the following terms:
• manufacturing
• retailing
• service provision.
The business activity in which Performance plc is involved is retailing [1]
7. Describe the role of the marketing functional area in a business.
Marketing is the area where they identify customers needs. They decide on pricing strategies
and whether it will be online or in store. They are also responsible for promoting the business
using different forms of media. [2]
8. Describe the role of the finance functional area in a business.
Finance is all about the money for example, paying employees, making and receiving
payments for the business and looking and making sure that the business is doing well
financially. [2]
9. Identify two consequences to Performance plc if its Operations Department fails to operate
efficiently.
1 If the products aren’t up to standard then there will be less sales and they will lose money
2 If they are working slowly there might not be enough stock which will decrease sales and
could give a bad reputation for the company 2]
4
10. Performance plc is a public limited company.
(i) State and explain one advantage to Performance plc of it being a public limited company.
A public limited company has limited liability which means the owners lose only the
money put into the business and no more, so they don’t have to sell personal belongings.
The business will also become better known through being mentioned by the media more,
which may result in increased sales. [2]
(ii) State and explain one disadvantage to Performance plc of it being a public limited
company.
A public limited company means the owner will have less control over the business because it is
harder to control who is a shareholder so the original owner will lose control.[2]
End of Test
5
The transport layer can be
found in both the OSI and the
TCP/IP reference models.
(a) Concisely describe the
purpose of the transport layer.
(b) What is the purpose of
fragmentation performed at the
transport layer?
[7%]
(c) Explain the role that port
numbers in the TCP and UDP
headers have in providing data
[5%]
to the correct applications the transport
layer can be found in both the OSI and the TCP/IP reference models. (a) Concisely describe
the purpose of the transport layer.(b) What is the purpose of fragmentation performed at the
transport layer?[7%] (c) Explain the role that port numbers in the TCP and UDP headers
have in providing data [5%] to the correct applications

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T-Level Digital

Test 1 Name: Dylan Thornton

19th Jan 2021

Instructions: Answer all questions.

Information: There are no additional materials required for this paper.

For Examiners Use

labelled and written with the question number.

of animal-related products such as saddles in order to support horse welfare.

treat cancer patients, develop and trial new treatments [2]

work there instead of the other businesses. [2]

current flat structure shown in Fig. 1a.

different jobs can be split up into multiple sections [6]

Read the case study below and answer questions 6-10

The business activity in which Performance plc is involved is retailing [1]

7. Describe the role of the marketing functional area in a business.

using different forms of media. [2]

8. Describe the role of the finance functional area in a business.

could give a bad reputation for the company 2]

which may result in increased sales. [2]

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