Worksheet 1b Inputs and outputs

Understanding computers

Worksheet 1b: Inputs, processes and outputs

Activity 1:

Identify the inputs, processes and outputs for the following real-world applications:

Passport Scanner (Details) Automatic Windscreen Wiper

(Details)
Input: Passport barcode is scanned
Input: driver turns on the window wipers
Process: Data from barcode is checked
against national database

Output: allows or disallows you to board Process: goes up and down to clean
the plane the window

Output: Wipers switch on

Fingerprint Clocking-in or Registration Automatic Smoke Detector (Details)

System (Details)
Input: smoke
Input: Fingerprint on sensor

Process: detects smoke

Process:

Output: makes noise

Output:

Activity 2:

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1. Identify all of the input devices at a supermarket self-checkout machine. What data is
input for each device?

Input Device What data is input?

Scanning items What item it is

2. What information needs to be stored on the supermarket computer in order to make

everything work correctly?

What the barcode is for what item

3. Where might this data be stored?

4. What type of storage device could the data be stored on and why?

5. Identify the output devices at a supermarket and state what the output would be.

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Output Device What data is output?