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Computer Applications Technology 2026

Question 5 — Database
5.35 marks

Modify qryWomenTech so it lists female-led start-ups in FinTech or EdTech, founded after 2021. Sort ascending by StartupName. Save and close.

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Field names are examples, so use your actual ones.

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  1. Open in Design View. Field names are examples, so use your actual ones.

  2. Field Criteria or:
    LeadGender (or similar) "Female" "Female"
    Sector "FinTech" "EdTech"
    YearFounded >2021 >2021
    StartupName Sort: Ascending
  3. Neater version using one row: Sector criteria In("FinTech","EdTech") or "FinTech" Or "EdTech".

  4. If the founding field is a Date: use >=#2022/01/01#, or >#2021/12/31#.

Why this earns the marks

criteria on the same row are joined by AND; separate rows are OR — this is the single rule that makes or breaks every multi-condition Access query, and the one this particular question is built to test directly. The question needs Female AND (FinTech OR EdTech) AND after 2021: a condition with an AND/OR mix like this can't be expressed with only one row, since a single row only ever produces an AND of everything on it. If you split FinTech and EdTech over two rows you must repeat the other two criteria on both rows, otherwise the OR row would accept non-female or older start-ups — leaving gender or year blank on the second row doesn't mean "same as the row above," it means "no restriction at all" for that row, silently widening the results. "After 2021" is >2021, not >=, because "after" a year explicitly excludes that year itself — >=2021 would wrongly include start-ups founded in exactly 2021. Marks: gender criterion, sector OR, year criterion, sort, save — five separately checkable pieces of one query.