AQA Information and Communication Technology/ICT5

ICT5 is assessed by a 2 hour written paper consisting of a series of short, structured questions and a longer essay question, making up 15% of the total A-Level marks. The UMS for this paper is 90 marks.

ICT5 aims to cover the subject of "Information: Policy, Strategy and Systems" and has 10 topics.

14.1 Policy and Strategy Issues
14.2 Software
14.3 Database Management Concepts
14.4 Communication and IS
14.5 Networks
14.6 Human-Computer Interaction
14.7 Human-Computer Interfaces
14.8 Software Development
14.9 Software Reliability
14.10 Portability of Data