1. Senior one students normally access the computer laboratory in their free time to do their
personal practical work. They start with booting the computers as they were taught by
their ICT teachers. After the booting process, computers display icons on the desktops.
a) What do you understand by the term booting and give the two types of booting.
(4 marks)
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b) Briefly describe an icon and list four major icons on the computer desktop. (5 marks)
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c) While working with a computer, we normally save our work and their after we collect
it in one location known as a folder.
i. Explain the term folder in your own thinking.
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ii. Write five operations which can be made on a folder.
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2. In most school Uganda we normally use desktop computer and all devices are all
connected to a system unit or call it a CPU as people normally call it
a) As an ICT student what do you understand by the term system unit?
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b) Inside that device above we have many sensitive parts which help a computer to run
or to perform operations, can you give at least five devices found in it. (5 marks)
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c) Explain three devices from the devices list in 2(b).
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d) The general name given to the devices outside the system unit are called the
peripheral devices, go on and come with the defining the term peripheral device.
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e) List six devices you know which can be connected to the system unit. (6 marks)
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f) Explain four devices from the listed in (e) above.
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3. a) In the process of using a computer everything we do or typed is measured by a
character you feed in, and we have our standard units according to the size of capacity
of the work done. Briefly in rankings of the size (capacity) can you list them starting
from a bit?
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b) Your teacher wants to back up his work, list some storage devices he/she can use to
back up his/her work.
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c) If the teacher wants to back up data of 12GB, How many CDs of 700MBs needed to
back up the work?
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d) Give the difference between writing and reading in memory
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4. A headteacher is planning to hold a video-conference with headteachers from other
schools. The headteachers already have basic internet connected desktop computer
systems including a monitor, keyboard and mouse.
(a) Identify three pieces of additional hardware they need in order to participate in a
video conference
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(b) A technician is setting up the hardware for the video-conference. State three tasks the
technician would need to do to set up the hardware for the video conference. You can
assume that the hardware required has already been purchased.
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Complete each sentence using the most appropriate item from the list. Your answers
must be different in each case.
2ADC
an applet
hardware
HDD
a router
a sensor
software
SSD
(a) The physical components of a computer are called
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(b) Programs and data are examples of
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(c) A small application performing one or two simple functions is called
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(d) An input device used in measurement applications is called
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5. (a) Describe the term a computer system.
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(b) Name any four components of a computer system.
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6. (a) Distinguish between a file and a folder. (02 marks)
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(b) Write the file extension of the following files. (04 marks)
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7. Describe the procedures you would follow to create a folder on a windows
desktop.(05 marks)
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8. Given the following examples of storage media.
Compact disc
Digital Versatile disc
Blu-ray disc
USB Flash disk
Memory card
External hard disk drive
(a) Identify any three storage media which are more resistant to virus attacks
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(b) Name any two examples of solid-state storage media?
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9. A tablet computer consists of both hardware and software.
(a) Define the term hardware.
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(b) One input device used on a tablet computer is a touch screen. Name two other input
devices built into a tablet computer.
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(c) Write down two examples of system software.
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10. The World Wide Web (WWW) is often mistaken for the internet.
(a) Explain the differences between the WWW and the internet
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(b) The web address for Cisco Networking academy is
https://www.netacad.com/portal/learning Describe the following parts of the web
address.
https://
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netacad
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.com
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/portal/learning
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11. Match the following devices with their purposes.
SECTION B SENARIO BASED QUESTION
Attempt only one question from this section
SCENARIO 1
Belinda uses a school computer like all other learners to research her work in all the 12
subjects she does. She downloads tutorials in form of text and videos in the subjects and
saves them on the local disk of the computer. Her work mounts to 35,840 MBs. It is not
safe on this computer as it can be deleted by other learners or the lab attendant while
maintaining the laboratory computers. She has a 32 GB flash disk, a 16 GB memory card
of and a TB external hard disk, she can use to back up her work.
Tasks:
a) In writing, how will Belinda organize and separate her work from that of other learners.
b) Which medium would you recommend her to use to back up her work and how will she
use it.
SCENARIO 2
Akello borrowed a computer with a 40GB hard disk from Sarah from Sarah. She saved
her project data which had pictures, videos, and other documents all mixed up. The
data took up 30GB space. Akello has continuously complained about how hard it is for
her to access and manage the stored data. Recently, Sarah requested to have her
computer back. She gave Akello a pack of 50 CDs each with a storage capacity of
700MBs on which she can transfer her project data.
Task:
a) Advise Akello on the different appropriate storage devices she can use to store
her data.
b) Explain how she can transfer the data
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