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Mr McGivern
Mrs Smith
Mr Carey
Mr Munro

Caroline works in a dental practice. She uses a database package to store information about the patients. An example record is shown .

Caroline wants a hard copy of all the patients in alphabetical order.

What is a hard copy? KU
(1 point)

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Describe how Caroline could use the database package to obtain a list of all patients in alphabetical order. PS (2 points)

Describe how Caroline could use the database package to obtain a full list of all patients due to visit Mr Hopkin on 17/07/00. PS (3 points)

Caroline needs immediate access to any patient's record.

What type of backing storage should be used for this purpose. KU (1 point)

Give one reason for your previous answer. PS (1 point)

A patient phones the surgery and asks to see the information that is held about him and all his family. He says that he must be allowed to see any information that is held about him on any computer. Is the patient totally correct? Explain your answer. KU (2 points)

The dental practice allows staff to access the same computer records from any of the 3 rooms in the practice where computers are stored as the computers are networked together. What kind of network is this? KU (1 point)

If Caroline wanted to access files, stored in the practice, on her home computer, what additional piece of hardware would she need?KU (1 point)

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