SC6232, WASSCE 2022 CANDIDATE'S NAME. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ELECTIVE) 2 Essay INDEX NUMBER SIGNATURE Thour DATE: THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL West African Senior School Certificate Examinati for School Candidates SC 2022 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS 1 hour TECHNOLOGY (ELECTIVE) 2 [30 marks} Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so. While you are waiting, read and observe the Jollowing instructions carefully. ForExaminer’s IysTRUCTIONS TO CaNpinates a Use Only juestion Mark = Write your name, full index number, normal S Number and the date of examination.in the spaces provided at the top of this paper. 2. Please note that your name should be written in the order in which it was captured during registration. 3. In addition to writing your name on the front page of your booklet, write your index number at the top of each page. 4. This booklet contains five questions. You are required to answer three questions only. All questions carry equal marks. Paper 2 will last 1 hour after which the booklet will be collected, 5. Write boldly and legibly in ink (preferably black) and state your answers precisely. | 6. rite your answers within the spaces provided. 7. Do not write your answer(s) beyond the spaces provided. 8. Do not sear off any part of this booklet. I is an examination a malpractice if you do so. ToD 9. Write in the box below, the question numbers of the questions you ‘answered, in the order in which you answered them spaVSC6232/dao/pa/22° jo SRSnage of all the numbers in rows 3, 4 and 5 together; ‘of all the numbers in columns B and F together;‘SC 6231 Name WASSCE 2022 INFORMATION Index Number. AND COMMUNICATIONS: TECHNOLOGY (ELECTIVE) 1 Objective Thour THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ‘West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates sc 2022 Paver 1 1 hour Onserive Test [50 marks} Do not open this booklet until you are told to do so. While you are waiting, read and observe the following instructions carefully. Write your name and index number in ink in the spaces provided above. 1, Use 2B pencil throughout. 2. On the pre-printed answer sheet, check that the following details are correetly printed: (a) Inthe space marked Name, check your surname followed by your other names. (b) Inthe spaces marked Examination, Year, Subject and Paper, check ‘WASSCE’, “SC 2022", ‘INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ELECTIVE)’ and ‘1’ in that order. (c) _. Inthe box marked Index Number, your index number has been printed vertically in the spaces on the left-hand side, and each numbered space has been shaded in line with each digit, Reshade each of the shaded spaces. (a) Inthe box marked Subject Code, the digits 623113 are printed vertically in the spaces onthe left-hand side. Reshade the corresponding numbered spaces as you did for your index number. 3. Anexample is given below. This is for a male candidate whose name is Aaron Kwesi NKOAH. His index mumber is 7102143958 and he is offering Information and Communications Technology (Elective) 1 THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL ‘ANSWER SHEET rene ™ 'NKOAH AARON KWESL GHA aidminectonl MEW ASS CEES SESS yer SC.2022 —INFOR. AND COMM. TECH, (ELECT.) TWETRUGTIONS 10, CANDIDATES IMtlee rose 8 penct ug. 2. eww each question by cnoosng one fe and snadng the ths 5 owe comple ony answer you wan fo change 3 leave eno spaces blank he onsver spaces provide cre mre than youre & Donotmane ony mating arose Neary black mons he ight han adge of your orewer sect SAS eee ccs eps ers fale #884 RE REL? a8 rerun 2022 The West Arcam Examination Council10. uw 12. 13, 14 3 Which of the following devices is an impact printer? A. Daisy Wheel B. InkJet C. Laser D. Thermal “The computer process that electronically prepares a disk to store data is known as A. coupling. B. decoding C. formatting. D. standardizing. Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) numbers are obtained by ‘A. converting decimal numbers to octal. B. __ converting binary numbers to decimal C. representing each decimal digit to binary sequence. D. __ tepresenting each hexadecimal digit to binary sequence. Information system inchide the following types except A. decision support system. B. database management system. c transaction processing system. 1D. __ management information system ‘Tactical information is needed for A, longrange planning. B, __ shortrange planning C. government taxation. D. day-to-day operations ‘Online transaction processing is used because A. it increases profit. B, 3k is used for storing data. C. transactions occur in batches. D. _ itcan handle random queries. “The feature provided by a desktop publication application to assist a user with the placement and alignment of one object to another object is called A. grids. B. guides. C. handles. D. rules. Which of the following error messages in a spreadsheet application indicates a cell reference error? A. #REF! B. 4DIV/o! C. #NAME? D. — #VALUE! Which of the following devices is not a page printer? A. Bubble printer B. InkJet printer C. Laser printer D. 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Mand Il only D. 1, Mand iit The appropriate datatype used for storing when an event occurred in a database is A. DATE, B. MEMO. C. NUMBER D. ‘TEXT. Information technology does not encourage A ‘ance learning, B. audio-visual learning, C. teacher facilitated learning, D. teacher controlied learning, There is scarcity of computer teachers in your region. Which of the following computer technologies will be the best to bring a near to real-life class teaching situation? A. Conference call B. Preloaded video C. Radio broadcasting D. Video conferencing The interface where icons are displayed on a computer monitor is called A. Desktop. B. Home. C. Taskbar. D. Windows. A programming language that is used to write source codes that are independent of a particular type of computer architecture is called A. high-level language. B. low-level language. © machine language. D. symbolic language. ‘The programming language BASIC was developed by Pm Charles Babbage and Lovelace John G, Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. ‘Hermann Hollerith and Powers. Atanasoff and John W. Mauchly. TEMPS S$TEMP. “TEMP” “TEMP” A computer that is dedicated to providing network and sharing services to other computers on the network is called A. B. c. D. Which of the following texts isan example of a valid string variable in QBASIC programming? A. B c. D. A. client. B gateway. Cc. router. D. server. ‘ND OF PAPER spdlSC6231/dao/pe/22