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GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EDUCATION EXAMINATION

FAR NORTH REGIONAL PRE-MOCK

DECEMBER 2022 ORDINARY LEVEL

COMPUTER SCIENCE 0595 PAPER 2

Answer any FIVE questions

You are reminded of the necessity for good English and orderly presentation in your answer
Non programmable calculators maybe used

TWO AND A HALF HOURS

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 1. (i) Hamidou desires to get a computer for video editing and games amongst other
things.
(a) Give four important hardware characteristics he should consider when (4marks)
purchasing a computer for these tasks.
(b) Which operating system would you advise him to install? Justify. (2marks)
(c) Which type of application software will he use for video editing? (1mark)
(d) Give three ways by which he can acquire these software. (3marks)
(ii) Software can be classified as shareware, freeware, liteware, open source etc.
(a) What is freeware? (2marks)
(b) When is a software said to be Reliable and efficient. (2marks)
(iii) Define the following computer memory and state their role.
(a) ROM (2marks)
(b) RAM (2marks)
(c) Cache memory (2marks)
2. (i) Consider this SDLC diagram:

(a) Define the terms: Information system and SDLC (4marks)

(b) Copy and complete the diagram with the missing stages. (4marks)
(c) Give an activity each that takes place in the second and fourth stages (2marks)
(ii) Briefly describe the following information systems:
(a) Management Information System (2marks)
(b) Decision Support System (2marks)
(iii) An organisation is converting all its manual information system to a
computerised system. At some point in the SDLC there is the collection of
information concerning the former system.
(a) Give three methods that can be used for this collection of information. (3marks)
(b) Which of the methods above will be well adapted if it were an insurance
company? Give one reason for your answer. (2marks)
(c) What is data? (1mark)
3. (i) A Hospital has two branches in a town and intends to set up a computer network in
each of these hospital branches.
(a) Briefly explain the term computer network? (2marks)
(b) What type of network will be set up in each of the branches? (1mark)
(c) If the networks in the branches are interconnected, what type of network
will it be? (1mark)
(d) Propose a network topology to this hospital. Describe it and convince them (3marks)
to adopt it.
(ii) In computer networking, several devices are used with each of them serving a
particular purpose.
(a) Describe any two network devices stating the role they play. (4marks)
(b) With the aid of a diagram describe the client-server architecture giving its (3marks)

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 shortcoming.
(iii)
(a) Give three reasons why someone can decide not to connect to the
internet (3marks)
(b) Why do some people seem to be so addicted to the internet? (2marks)
(c) Which device is used for internet access? (1mark)
4. (i) Convert the following numbers to their corresponding bases:
(a) 15710 to binary. (2marks)
(b) 110111101102 to hexadecimal. (2marks)
(c) F1A16 to binary. (2marks)
(ii) Carryout the following arithmetic :
(a) 10111+10011 (b) 10000112 - 11102 (4marks)
(iii) Consider the following logic circuit.

A
B
P
Q R

(3marks)
(a) Identify the logic gates that produce the outputs P,Q and R.
(b) Give the logic expressions of P, Q and R. (3marks)
(c) Draw the truth table of the circuit. (4marks)
5. (i) One of the functions of the operating system is to provide a human computer
interface through which the user can communicate with the computer system.
(a) State two qualities of a good human computer interface. (2marks)
(b) Which human computer interface is well adapted for a blind person? Give (3marks)
the input device and the output device that are the most needed for him.
(c) Which one is well adapted for a deaf person? (1mark)
(d) Give two reasons why a user would prefer the command line interface to
the graphical user interface. (2marks)
(ii) State two ways in which computers can be used in:
(a) SODECOTON (2marks)
(b) Zenith Bank (2marks)
(c) First Trust Insurance (2marks)
(iii)
(a) Give one application each for the following input devices: Bar code reader, (4marks)
OMR, Digital video camera, MICR.
(b) State two examples of devices that act as input and output devices. (2marks)
6. (i)
(a) Briefly describe the term green computing. (2marks)
(b) Give three practices that can promote green computing. (3marks)
(ii) Super computers, mainframe, mini computers and micro computers are different
types of computers.
(a) Why are computers widely used nowadays? Give two reasons. (2marks)
(b) Give two tasks that can be performed by supercomputers. (2marks)
(c) Give two examples of micro computers (2marks)
(d) What is the main difference between the super computer and the mainframe
computer? (2marks)

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 (i) The digital camera and the smartphone are two commonly used multimedia
devices.
(a) Give two examples of memory that can be found within the smartphone. (2marks)
(b) Describe three ways by which data can be transferred from the smartphone (3marks)
to the computer.
(c) What is an embedded system? Give an example. (2marks)
7. (i) Video conferencing is one of the communication methods used online.
(a) Explain the term videoconferencing. (2marks)
(b) Name the four peripheral devices used during video conferencing (4marks)
(c) Give one most commonly used application for videoconferencing (1mark)
nowadays.
(ii)
(a) Explain what you understand by: Partitioning a hard disk, Scanning a
storage device, Formatting a storage device. (6marks)
(b) Why is partitioning the hard drive necessary? Give two reasons (2marks)
(c) Give two characteristics of computer memory and their units of
measurement. (4marks)
(d) Give the full meaning of MBR (1mark)

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