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What software in a smartphone calculates its latitude and longitude from satellite signals?
GPS software
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Which seating error is prevented by an online booking system?
Double booking / overbooking
For how many hours a day can industrial robots operate without a break?
24
Streaming gives viewers what speed-related benefit when starting a show?
Instant / immediate access
Telephone banking first asks for which long number found on the front of a debit card?
The debit/credit card number
What devices in orbit transmit timing codes that phones use to triangulate position?
GPS satellites
A web reservation system lets customers make bookings at what time of day?
Any time / 24 × 7
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Robots save money because they never need which kind of worker safety gear?
Protective clothing / safety equipment
Because nothing is saved locally, streaming avoids filling up what finite device resource?
Storage space / hard-drive space
Internet banking helps customers but forces the bank to do what with its staff before rollout?
Retrain them
After a phone finds its position, where are the co-ordinates stored so other apps can reuse them?
In the phone’s internal memory / storage
Online booking is often cheaper to run because businesses have lower ongoing ______ costs.
Overheads / running costs
Using robots raises which “P-word” that measures output per worker or per hour?
Productivity
Without good bandwidth, viewers suffer from what stop-start playback problem?
Buffering / lag
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A drawback of questionnaires is that users may fail to do what simple step?
Complete/return the questionnaire
Which profession uses GPS to measure land boundaries and topography?
Surveying
For a school, what expensive physical resource must be bought before launching an online booking system?
Specialised hardware / servers / extra computers
Automation can lead to which effect in which skilled jobs disappear?
De-skilling
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An e-publication can embed what type of moving-picture content that print can’t include?
Video / multimedia
In an expert system, the inference engine searches which database of facts to reach conclusions?
The knowledge base
Name one sensor a weather station might feed into a computer model (pressure, temperature, moisture or wind speed)
Any one of: pressure sensor / temperature sensor / humidity sensor / wind-speed sensor
In a manual system, which payment method is still possible even if customers don’t have cards?
Cash
What specialised staff keep robotic equipment calibrated and running smoothly?
Maintenance crews / maintenance engineers
Designers improve newsletter readability by balancing text with plenty of what blank design element?
White space
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When stock falls below its preset level, an automatic stock-control system sends what message to suppliers?
A reorder message / restock order