1 A small manufacturing business uses networked computers with closed source application
software installed.
(a) A spreadsheet application package is used to calculate employee’s wages.
(i) Give one benefit of using a spreadsheet application for this task compared to
calculating wages manually.
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(ii) Give two other types of application packages that the small business could use, giving
an example of a task that the business could use each application for.
Application 1 ......................................................................................................................
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Example of task 1 ..............................................................................................................
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Application 2 ......................................................................................................................
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Example of task 2 ..............................................................................................................
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(iii) Describe a drawback of using closed source software (rather than open source
software) for the small business.
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