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