This post gonna share you some experience on HKDSE ICT elective. As the syllabus gonna change on 2025 DSE, so please be aware of your year of taking DSE inorder not to take wrong advise.

# How to earn better marks in this Exam?

It's easy for you to earn a great mark, remember.

If you wanna get a star in ICT DSE, it requires you to answer the words EAA want.

# Some common question type of paper 1

# Topics always takes up whole question

• Spreadsheet (x vlookup/ sumif)/ database(order by/ group by)
  
  you may need to check this out in terms you don't know what should be revsied
• Programming (in pseudo code only)

# Some discrete question

• Difference between different file format (video, audio, image)
• Difference between encoding scheme
• Validation && Verification
• Brief image on cache CPU component(ALU, CU, Register)
• IO device(e.g. Keyboard, Mouse, Printer,Scanner,Microphone,Screen ,Camera ,Digital tablet, Touchpad,etc.)
• Ram v.s. Rom (Volatile)
• System software v.s. Application software
  • System software:
    • Utility program
    • Operation system(os)
    • Driver program
• Computer system
• Those things related to Network

Remember to make clear concept of tls and digital cert.

• Streaming and buffer
• Some question about quity
• Firewall and Anti-virus software
• Computer-related diseases

# You may try some question below

1. Mary is a student. She can use a video editing software free of charge, while she found she can't redistribute the software to others. She is using a .

   • Freeware
   • Shareware
   • open source software
   • closed source software
   • commercial software

2. Eric find and install a comercial for software for free in internet. Does he infringe any copyright?

   • Yes
   • No

3. If Carl want to open a text file on different operation system and device, what is the better format should he choose?

   • docx
   • txt
   • pdf
   • rtf

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