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Information and
Communication
Technology
Practical
Paper 3
2hours
July/august 2018
2 Hours and 30 minutes
UGANDA TEACHERS’ EXAMINATIONS SCHEME
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
JOINT MOCK EXAMINATIONS
Information and Communication Technology
PRACTICAL
Paper 3
Time: 2 hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
This paper is made up of five equally weighted questions.
Answer any three questions.
Any addition question(s) answered will not be marked.
Each candidate is provided with support files in the folder UTES mock3 2018 support
files on the computer desktop. Use support files where applicable to supplement the
questions.
Each candidate is provided with a new blank compact Disk.
Candidates should continuously save their work.
Use support files where applicable to supplement the questions.
Each candidate must produce a hard copy for each of their work to accompany the
compact disk. (CD).

For Examiners use Only Total

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Q.1 Q.2 Q.3 Q.4 Q.5

2018 Uganda Teachers’ Examinations Scheme

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1. As a secretary to the school debating club” you are required to send out
acknowledgment letters to people who have so far made contributions towards
the club. The letter contents are the same for all persons except the address,
name and nature of contributions.

Below is a table of people who have made contributions.

NAME ADDRESS NATURE OF
CONTRIBUTION
1. Sentamu Victor P.O.Box 09 Masaka Shs.70,000
2. Obonyo Fred P.O.Box 03 Tororo Shs.55,000
3. Amoit Ket P.O.Box 564 Kampala Shs.100,000
4. Makanga Ronald P.O.Box 890 Mukono Shs. 90,000

Load file “Invitation.rtf” from the support files provided, customize the file
and save as your name. (02 marks)

(i) Add a water mark “APPRECIATIONS” in red color to your letters.

(02 marks)
(ii) Drop cap the first letter of the third line to three lines and at ‘0’ distance
from text.
(iii) Adjust the font size of the Senders’ address to Lucida calligraphy.
(02 marks)
(iv) Set your page margins to (04 marks)
TOP: 2cm BOTTOM: 2cm
LEFT: 1cm RIGHT: 1cm
(v) Insert header as your personal number and centre aligned. (02 marks)
(vi) Attach the address list and send a letter to each person as in the table
above. (04 marks)
(vii) The address and names should be bold and nature of contributions in
italics. (02 marks)
(viii) Change the page size to legal. (01 mark)
(ix) Print your letters. (01 mark)

2. As an ICT Student, you are asked to use the following data in a table and
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 perform the required computations automatically.

(i) Load file marksheet.xls, and Save it as “your personal number”.

(01 mark)
(ii) Insert a title “KIJANJAARO PRIMARY SCHOOL “and a subtitle
“primary seven(P.7) mock results”. (02 marks)

(iii) Merge and center it with the table. (02 marks)

(iv)Insert a column “GRADE” after every subject. (01 mark)

(v) Using VLOOKUP function, compute the grade for each student in
EACH SUBJECT basing on the grading scale below; (02 marks)

Mark range Grade

85-100 D1
80-84 D2
75-79 C3
65-74 C4
55-64 C5
50-54 C6
45-49 P7
40-44 P8
0-39 F9

Use the relevant formula to compute;

(a) Average marks. (01 mark)
(b) Rank for each student according to average marks. (02 marks)
(i) Format the average column with two decimal places. (01 mark)
(ii) Use conditional formatting to change the background color of cells with
Average mark above 50 to Red. (02 marks)

(iii) Use the columns; Names and average to draw a column chart.
(02 marks)
(iv) Include data labels to the chart. (01 mark)

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(v) Use a suitable formula to determine the number of pupils who scored 70
marks and above in ENG. Put your answer in cell E12.
(02 marks)
(vi) Save and Print your work. (01 mark)
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3. As an ICT student, you are required to sensitize people in Mpigi Town Council
about Mobile banking and the venue is Mpigi T/C social hall.
Using appropriate software, Load a file presentation.ppt from your support
files, customize the file and save it as your name and index number.eg
“BOSCO_065 ”. (01 mark)
Enhance the following features to enrich your presentation;

(i) Maintain the formatting features of the master slide to all your slides.
(01 mark)
(ii) Apply any transition scheme of your choice for all slides. (01 mark)
(iii) Add Swivel Entrance animation effect to all your slide titles. (01 mark)
(iv) Set your slides to automatically transit after 2 seconds. (01 mark)
(v) Insert automatically updating date and time to all your slides. (02 marks)
Tasks
(i) Slide 1: Should be introduction slide. Include the Title, Name of the
presenter and the venue of the presentation. The text for venue should be a
word art. (02 marks)
(ii) Attach picture IMG002.jpeg from your support file folder “images” to
this slide. (02 marks)
(iii) Slide II: Include a definition of mobile banking and two examples of
service providers that render this service in Uganda. (02 marks)
(iv) Slide III: Explain at least two advantages of mobile banking.(02 marks)
(v) Slide IV: Include at least two disadvantages of mobile banking.
(02 marks)
(vi) Slide V: State a conclusion statement stressing out PIN fraud as the
major security threat in mobile banking and how people should avoid
that. (02 marks)
(vii) Save and print your presentation as handout (01 mark)

4. Using any desktop publishing program, design a book cover for a computer
studies text book, putting the following into consideration;
(i) The book title is called “Quick Approach to computer studies”. Apply
blue font color and 28 font size to your title. (02 marks)
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 (ii) Set all your margins to 0.8 cm (02marks)
(iii) Additional words on the cover are “Learning Information Communication
Technology Made Simple”. (02 marks)
(iv) Put an artistic boarder around the book cover. (02 marks)
(v) Give your book cover a background design of your choice. (02 marks)
(vi) Write the word “VOLUME ONE” in the lower left corner and your name
as the Author in the lower right corner. (02 marks)
(vii) Insert a picture comp.jpeg at the top center just below the title. (02 marks)
(viii) Apply ENGRAVERS MT as your font style for the title. (02 marks)
(ix) Adjust the paper size to A5 portrait. (02 marks)
(x) Save your work as your name-CST. E.g. “BOLE_CST”. (01 mark)
(xi) Print your publication. (01 mark)

5. You are required to manage data for COMPUTER POINT WORKERS, load
the file named WORKERS from the support files.
(i) Rename table one as Details and set appropriate data types for the
fieldnames. (04 marks)
(ii) Set an appropriate primary key. (01 mark)
(iii) Format the fields actual and amount received in the form shs.#### i.e.
Shs 20000. (01 mark)

(iv) Create a form called “RETRIEVAL FORM” and use it to calculate the
balance, given that BALANCE = ACTUAL AMOUNT LESS
AMOUNT RECEIVED. (04 marks)
(v) Include COMPUTER POINT WORKERS as a header on the form.
(01 mark)
(vi) Create a query to calculate the percentage pay for each employee, call the
"created field “Percentage Pay”. Save the query as Percentage Query.
(02 marks)

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Given PERCENTAGE PAY = AMOUNT RECEIVED over
ACTUAL AMOUNT *100.

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(vii) Create a query to show employees whose names begin with letter “P”,
save the query as “P Query”. (02 marks)
(viii) Create a report basing on Percentage Query and save it as Percentage
Report. (02 marks)

(ix) Change the orientation of your report to landscape. (01 mark)

(x) Include your name as footer in the report. (01 mark)
(xi) Print only your report. (01 mark)

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