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Gender
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Home town
The city where you studied for the A/Ls
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Attitude and practice regarding Information Technology
1.1From where did you gain your currentknowledgeregardingcomputers?
A formal training course
Yes
.No
An informal independentstudY
Yes
No
Friendsandcolleagues
Yes
No
relatedareasbeforecomingto Medical
1.2Haveyou hada coursein thefollowirft computer
Faculty?
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ComputerF{ardware
Yes
No
Computer Software
Yes
No
ComputerProgramming,SystemsAnalysis& Design
Yes
No
ComputerGraphicsand Web Designing
Yes
No
Other(speci$)
No
Ves
1.3Haveyou doneIT as a subjectin O/Ls?
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Ifyes, gradeobtained
L4 Have you done IT as a subjectin A/Ls?
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(GeneralInformation Technology)
If yes, gradesobtained
1.5Which of the following activitieshaveyou carriedout usinga computer?
Preparinga document/letter
Yes
No
Playinga comPutergame
Ye-s
No
Preparinga presentation
Yes
No
Organizinginformation using a computerizeddatabase
Yen
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
(For exampleusing Access,Oraclc,SQL, etc.' ')
Using the World Wide Web to searchfor information
(E'g': MS Excel)
Using a computerizedspreadsheet
Wt'iting a computerProgramme
(For exampleusingVisual Basic,Java,C, PERL,etc" ')
Using a ComputerAssistedlnstructionsprogram
Yes
No
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Other(specifo)
programtneduringthe medisalcourse?
1.6would you like to havean IT educational
Yes
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'No
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conduotthotcachingactivitioc?
Seniorc
Peers(colleagues)
Academicstaff
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bcsttimeto conductsuchan activiM
DuringtheEnglishoourse
Duringl-2 terms
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JustbeforcsomeactivitywhereIT knowledgcis needed
(PowER poINT beforethepresentations
or woRD beforepreparinga projectr€port)
Otlrer(spccifr)
Ll0 If yesto 1.6whichprogrammes
wouldyoupreferto teamabouf?
MicrosoftWord
Microsoftpowerpoint
Searching& usingMedicalResourccs
on thc Internet
Statisticalanalysissoftware
Yer
No
Yer
No
Yer '
No
Yar'
No
Other(spocift)
l.l I Do youown a computer?
Yar
Ifyes,
Whatrype(Circleonc)
No
Desktoplmp l,notn
Whatbqand/sandmodcVs?
l. 12 Do you havqane-mailaddress?
If yes,how fiequentlydo you ch.eckiU sendmails?
Yer
No
Yes
No
Daily
Severaltimesa week
Oncca week
Oircea month
Rarely
I . l3 Do you useinternctfacilities?
If yes,fiom whsrcdo you gainaccessto intcmct?
Your homc
At a friends'/relatives,home
Yer
'Yer
No
No
InternatcafC
Faculty
How frequentlydo you useit?
2-3 hoursa day
r
2-3 hoursa week
.
2-l hoursa month
Ratrly
Yes
No
Yer
No
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2.,. Klowlcdgoon word prccoulng
No
Yeg
2.1 Haveyou usedMicrosoftWordbefore?
2.2 If so,for whichactivitydid you useit?
2.3 Microsoft Word offers pre-dcvelopeddcsignsfor differont typesof documentssuchas
reportsand letters.What arethesepre-developeddesignscalled.(circle the correctansrybr)
Documenttemplates
Web pagcs
Trbles
Lryout wlzgrds
2,4 Which of theseicons would you useto deletctcxt from a pageand store it on the
Clipboard(Circle the conect icon)
2,5 You haveprepareda documentusingMicrosoft word. Next you want to gct all the linesto start
from the left sideof thc page.How wouldyou do it?
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document
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Sclectthe
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Selectthedocument
andclick onthciEl icon
Go to Format then selectf,'ont and selectleft alignment
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icon
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Yer
3.1Haveyou usedMicrosoftPowerPointbeforc?
No
3.2If so,for whichactivitydid you useit?
slide'show(Circlethocorrsct
3.3 Whatis thc keyboardshortcutyou canuseto starta presentation/
answer)
3.4What do theseicons mean
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3.5 Whichof thofolhwlng oanboueodto inrortr ncwrlldo?
Right-clickon tho rlidc thatyouwantthonewslidcto foliow'
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andthcnpressENTER.
By clickingon *re El
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icon.
andpressENTER
Selectthc cntirepresentation
On theSlidertab in theleft of thewindow,Right-clicktheslidethumbnail
thatyouwantthonewslideto follow,andthenclickNew Sllde
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on thc shortcutmcnu.
offcrspre{evelopcddcsigrsfor differcnttypcsof prcscntations.Whatare
3.6MicrosoftPowerPoint
theseprcdeveloped
designscallcd?(circlethc corr€ctanswcr)
DerignTcmplrtcr
SlldeImrgc
SlldeSortcr
DeslgnInsert
4. Knowledgeon Microsoft Offce Excel
4.1Haveyou usedMicrosoftExcelbefore?
Yes
'No
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4.2If so,for whichastivitydid youuseif?
4.3Theaddress
of theccll in MicrosoftExcel(pleasctick thebestanswer)
Consistsof row headingfollowedby thecolumnheading
Is thc columnheading
Consistsof columnheadingfoltowedby therow heading
ls tlre nameyou give for eachcell
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4.5 You havecntcreda setof valucsin a column.Now you wantto getthc sumat thc bottorql
column.How wouldyou do it?
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Selectall thevaluesandclick on the+ keyonthekeyboard.
Selcctalt thovaluesandclick on Auto rum icon.
Sclectonevalue,click on Auto sum iconandrcpeatit for all thevalucs.
Go to Tools,selecttheCelculatoroptionanddo thecalculations
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5.1 Following softwarc can be used for Data analysis
MacrorntidiaFlash
SPSS
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A date
An addr€ss
Date
Strlne
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Dete
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Numeric
Dete
Strlnc
Numeric
6. Usingthe Interngt and e-mail
6.1Whichof thefollowingsoftwareproducts
mightyouuseto viewwebpagos?
OutlookExprcss.
MozillaFirofox
AdobcAcrobatReader
Safari
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6.2 You havc goneto the faculty web site and clicked on "About faculqr" link on the home
page.You now want to r€turnto the homepage.Which button would you ctick?
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Facultyof Medicine,Colombowebsite.Whichof thefollowingwouldyouenterin thcsesrchboxto
do this?
Frculty of Mediclne andColombo
Facultyof MediclneColombo
*Fecultyof MedicineColombo"
FecultyandMediclneandColombo
6.4 You wish to accessinformation regarding"Anatomy - ld Week of devcloprhentand impfantetion"
lcctur€,What key words shouldyou usefor bestaccess?
Development,
implantation
ls weekof development
Anatomy,1{ week"development
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haveto
Createa newfolderfor thespecificfiles
PlacethespccifiofilesonyourDesktop
Saveall fiteson yourharddrive
Placcthespecificfiles on My Documents
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you closethc document
documcnt.
by n{istakeandivantto
reop€nit' You cannotremember
whcreyouhavesavcdit or theexactfile name.
How canyiu retrieve
it mosteasily?
Click on Stert, thengo to Searrch.
Click on Steri, thcngo to My RecentDocumenb.
Clickon Starg thengo to Control panel.
Click on Start,thengo to Hetp and Support,
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