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IGCSE ICT Past Paper Topic Questions Input and output devices
The topic contents are as follows:
2.1 Input devices and their uses
Input devices
- Characteristics, uses, advantages and disadvantages
of input devices including: keyboard, numeric keypad,
pointing devices, remote control, joystick/driving
wheel, touch screen (as an input device), scanners,
camera, microphone, sensors, light pen
2.2 Direct data entry and associated devices
Direct data entry
- Characteristics, uses, advantages and disadvantages
of direct data entry devices including: magnetic
stripe reader, chip and PIN reader, Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) reader, Optical Mark
Recognition/Reader (OMR), Optical Character
Recognition/Reader (OCR), bar code reader, QR
scanner
2.3 Output devices and their uses
Output devices
- Characteristics, uses, advantages and disadvantages
of output devices including: monitors, touch screen
(as an output device), multimedia projector, laser
printer, inkjet printer, dot matrix printer, plotter, 3D
printers, speaker, actuator