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COMPUTING

STRUCTURE AND SCHEME OF THE EXAMINATION

The examination will consist of two papers for a total duration of 2 hours. Paper 2
which comes first will be (Essay) and Paper 1 which follows will be (Objective).

1. PAPER 1 (OBJECTIVE)
The paper will consist of 40 compulsory objective questions and will last for 45 minutes.
This will carry 40 marks.

2. PAPER 2 (ESSAY)
The paper will consist of two sections: A and B.
Section A will be a compulsory question for 24 marks and Section B will have 4 questions
out of which candidates will answer any 3 for 12 marks each. The Paper will last 1 hour 15
minutes and will carry 60 marks.

NB: Candidates are expected to answer only four questions in all. Any candidate, who contravenes
this instruction, would have only the first four answers marked leaving those in excess unmarked.

3. WEIGHTING OF THE PAPER

Paper Marks Scaling factor Total marks

1 (Objective) 40 1
100
2 (Essay) 60 1
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS
PAPER 1 (OBJECTIVE)
Candidates are expected to answer 40 questions on this paper.

Each question is followed by four options lettered A to D. Find the correct option for each question
and shade in pencil on your answer sheet the answer space which bears the same letter as the
option you have chosen. Give only one answer to each question.

1. Which program icon on the desktop leads to the disk drives?

A. Internet Explorer
B. My Computer (ans)
C. My Document
D. My Network Places

2. The Fourth Generation of computers is associated with

A. vacuum tubes.
B. semi-conductors.
C. transistors.
D. microprocessor.

3. To underline selected text in a Word document, use the keys

A. Ctrl + U (ans)
B. Shift + U
C. Alt + U
D. Del + U

4. The default MS PowerPoint layout is

A. section header.
B. title only.
C. two content.
D. title slide. (ans)

5. Which of the following measures is used to evaluate a webpage to ensure how true the
information acquired is?
A. Currency
B. Content
C. Credible
D. Accuracy (ans)
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6. A bit that is turned OFF represents

A. 1
B. –1
C. 0 (ans)
D. ±1

7. The step-by-step approach used in solving a specific problem is

A. sequencing.
B. selection.
C. algorithm. (ans)
D. iteration.

8. Convert 15ten to a binary

A. 11112 (ans)
B. 11102
C. 10112
D. 11012

9. The robotic component that allows the robot to interact with its environment such as
movement and manipulation are
A. sensors.
B. actuators. (ans) Actuators are the “muscles” of a robot, the parts which convert stored energy into movement
C. power source.
D. control systems.

10. In querying an expert system, the IF-THEN control structure

A. provides information on the use of the system.
B. specifies the reason for querying the system.
C. provides information about the user of the system.
D. specifies a condition and an action to be taken. (ans)
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PAPER 2 (ESSAY)
This paper is in two sections. A and B. Canddates are expected to answer Question 1 in section A
and any other three questions in Section B
SECTION A
[24 marks]
Answer Question 1
[Compulsory]
1. The Head of your school presented the program shown in Fig. 1 to the school’s Programming
Club. The program creates usernames for students in the school. Members of the Club were
then tasked to discuss and answer the questions that follow:

Start

INPUT
firstName

INPUT
surname

name = first three letters

of firstName

username = name + first

two letters of surname

OUTPUT
username

Stop
Fig. 1
Using the process in Fig 1, Kojo Baah's username would be KojBa.
Write the name of Fig 1: FLOWCHART
Using the process in Fig 1, create the username for Patience Mensah. PatMe
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(a) Draw the symbol that represents the processing stage of the program

… .................................................................................................................... [2 marks]

Fig 1 is updated to create usernames as follows: username is the last 3 letters of surname and the
first 2 letters of first name.
(b) What will be the username for a student called Mark Elolo using the updated process?

OloMa .......................................................................... [4 marks]

(c) Write an algorithm for the updated process in (d).

• Step 1 - START
• Step 2 - INPUT firstName
• Step 3 - INPUT surname
• Step 4 – PROCESS the last 3 letters of surname and store it in a variable ‘a’ and
first 2 letters of firstName and store it in a variable ‘b’.
• Step 5 – COMBINE / JOIN / APPEND ‘a’ and ‘b’ (pick one of the words)
• Step 6 - OUTPUT username.
• Step 7 - STOP
(NB: note that there are no well-defined standards for writing algorithms.) [14 marks]

SECTION B
[36 marks]
Candidates are expected to answer three questions only from this section.

2. (a) Discuss one features each of the fourth-generation computers in terms of:
a) cost: fourth-generation computers were more affordable than their This affordability
led to the rise of personal computers, making them accessible to individual users

b) processor: Fourth generation computers used the Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI)
circuits in a microprocessor-based system which allowed for faster processing speed.
[6 marks]
(b) Describe three features of the computer mouse.
i. A computer mouse typically uses a mechanical device or a sensor to track its
movement.
ii. A computer mouse typically has one or more buttons. These buttons can be used
to select or click items on the screen.
iii. A computer mouse has a scrolling wheel that can be used to scroll up and down
through documents and web pages.
[6 marks]
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3. (a) Describe the best way to resize a picture in order to avoid distorting its aspect ratio.
The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height. Hence, the best
way to do this is to use a program that allows you to keep the proportions of the image.
Most image editing programs have a setting that allows you to lock the aspect ratio. When
this setting is enabled, you can only resize the image by proportionally changing its width
and height.
[3 marks]
b. Differentiate between the Save and the Save As commands. Give one example each in
case
The Save command is used to save a new document or save changes made to an
existing file while the Save As command is used to save a file with a new name or in a
new ___location. Example.
Save: You are working on a document in a word processing program, and you want to
save your changes. You would use the Save command to save the document to the
same ___location and with the same name.
Save As: You are working on a document in a word processing program, and you want
to create a copy of the document with a different name. You would use the Save As
command to give the document a new name and save it to a different ___location.
[6 marks]

(b) Kojo Talata designed a brochure which contains texts and images. He is finding it
difficult to write the texts around the images as the desktop publishing application is not
allowing that. What tool will be applicable to achieve the task?
The most applicable tool for Kojo Talata to achieve his task is a text wrapping
feature. Text wrapping allows text to flow around images, rather than simply being
placed on top of them. This can be achieved in most desktop publishing applications.
[3 marks]