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BTEC

2012
Unit 1 The Online World

Name: .

`1iuLesson4OnlineDocuments

Starter
a.Whatdoesuploadmean?
b.Whatdoesdownloadmean?
c.Whatisanalgorithm?

a.Totransferfilesorsomesortofdatatoalargercomputersystem.
b.Downloadmeanstocopydatafromonecomputertoanother,normallyfromtheinternet.
c.Aprocessorsetofrulestobefollowedincalculationsorotherproblemsolvingoperations,
especiallybyacomputer.

1. Whatisthemostcommonmethodusedtocompressafile?Whatisthemostpopularprogram
usedtoachievethis?
Themostcommonmethodusedtocompressafileistherightclicktosendtocompresszipfile
sinceitsverysimpleandaquickandeasywaytoachievezippingafile.Themostpopular
programusedtocompressafileis7zip.

2.Whataretheadvantagesofusingonlinesoftwarepackages?

A)Theadvantagesarethatitisflexiblemeaningthatitcanbeaccessedonanydevice,suchasmobiles
(somethingwecarryaround)tablets,aswellasacomputer/laptop.
B)Youcantloseitlikeyoucanloseamemorysticksince
C)Anyonecanhaveaccesstotheinformationbeingputup,althoughalsoseenasadisadvantage.

2. Howdoesanautomaticbackupwork?

Automaticbackupautomaticallysavesyourworkovershortperiodsoftime.Thisisveryusefulsince
youcouldforgettosaveyourworkandyouloseit,ifyouhaveamalfunctionwiththecomputer.

BTEC 2012
Unit 1 The Online World

Name: .

3. Findoutthemeaningsofthesekeyterms:

Collaborative working:
Collaborating work is working together.

Sharing documents:

Automatic backup:
Automatic backup system (ABS) automatically saves you work over a period of time; it
also recovers any lost work. They are necessary because should the system crash, this
system would recover the work lost, meaning the user would not have to protect their
data manually.

4. Matchthefollowingfilepermissionstothecorrectsentence.

Thisallowsuserstoretrieveadocument,read
it,editit,addanewdocumentordeleteor
ReadonlyAccess
archiveanexistingdocument.

Thisallowsausertolookatandreada
documentbutnotchangeit.

Thisallowstheusertolookatandreada
documentbutalsotomakechangestoit.

Read/WriteAccess

FullControl

5. Writedownwhatpermissionseachofthesepeopleshouldhave.

Person
ComputerAdministrator

Teacher/Lecturer

Pupil/Studentusingashareddrive

Permission

BTEC 2012
Unit 1 The Online World

Name: .

6. Discusstheuseandcontrolofdocumentsonline,includingtheuseofonlinesoftwaretocreate
documents.

Software
Whatdoesitdo?
Advantages
Disadvantages
Google
Documents

Dropbox

GoogleDrive

Plenary
a.Whatisacommonformatforcompressingfiles?
b.Whataretheadvantagesofonlinedocuments?
c.Whatarethedisadvantagesofonlinedocuments?

a.

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b.

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c.

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BTEC 2012
Unit 1 The Online World

Name: .

7. Findoutthemeaningsofthesekeyterms:

Version Control: is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, large web
sites, and other collections of information.

Locked:

File Permissions: Rights to specific users and groups of users, whether your allowed to read
only.

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