ZIMBABWE MINISTRY OF HIGHER AND TERTIARY EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT HIGHER EDUCATION EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (HEXCO) NATIONAL FOUNDATION CERTIFICATE IN COMPUTER OPERATONS AND PACKAGES SUBJECT: Computer Operations and Packages © PAPER NO: 115/15/S01B (Practical) > DURATION: 3 hours MARCH/APRIL 2018 EXAMINA’ REQUIREMENTS 9? 3 1, Printing facility. Oe" 2, Removable storage facility. 937% INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE * 1, Answer all questions, 2. Print all your answers. 3. Submit both printed copy and soft copy. This paper consists of 5 printed pages.PAPER NO: 115/15/S01B - COMPUTER OPERATIONS AND PACKAGES QUESTION 1 a) ») Using a word processing package, type the passage below using font type Times New Roman size 12 and save it as Introduction to Computers and print. (6 marks} INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS Definition of Terms > What is a Computer? A computer is an electronic device which is capable of accepting data as input, processes it to produce information as output and stores the information for later use. > Computer is an advanced electronic device that takes raw data as input from the user and processes these data under the control of set of instructions. > Information ~ is processed data, The basic components of a modern digital computer are: Input Device, Output Device, Central Processing Unit (CPU), mass storage device and memory. Four functions of a computer are: Accepts data Input Processes data Processing Produces output Output > Stores results Storage Main components of a computer system: Hardware and software: Hardware refers to the physical components of a computer which you can see and touch such as a keyboard, mouse, printer or monitor. Software, also called a program, is a set of instructions that tells the computer and its devices what to do. Hardware cannot function without software. Examples of software are Windows Media player, Microsoft office etc. Hardware components are grouped into five categories: Input devices Processing Output Storage Communication Justify the entire document and apply a line spacing of 1.5. (2 marks)PAPER NO: 115/15/S01B ~ COMPUTER OPERATIONS AND PACKAGES, ) d) e 8) h) j x) Centre the heading Introduction to Computers and change it to sentence case. (2 marks) Change the bullets in the first paragraph to any other bullets of your choice. (2 marks) Apply a 0.50cm first line indent to the first bulleted sentence. (2 marks) Insert a diagonal watermark ‘COPS EXAM’ to your document. (2 marks) Insert a picture after the last bullet and before the paragraph beginning with ‘The basic components of a...” (2 marks) Put an art page border to the whole document. (2 marks) Insert your name and student number as a left aligned header of the document. (3 marks) Create a table with two columns and five rows below the ‘four functions of a computer’. (2 marks) Merge the cells in the first row and add a heading accepts data to the left column of the merged row and input to the right of the merged row. Fill in the left and the right columns using the given information. (3 marks) Add a 3-point border to all cells in the table and right align all'the text in the column 2 in the table. Print a copy. (2 marks) QUESTION 2 a) Create the follow table using a spreadsheet package and print it. (3 marks) Product, . Cost $ Tax Price Sugar $200 Bread $25 Jam $60 Lux $30 Colgate ‘$100 Green bar $210 _ Tooth brush $40 > Total = ‘Average Count | "| Max ~~ Min b) Enter the formula to calculate tax which is 15% of the cost. (2 marks) 3PAPER NO: 115/15/S01B - COMPUTER OPERATIONS AND PACKAGES ¢) Copy the formula to obtain tax for the other products. (2 marks) d) Enter the formula to calculate price which is cost + tax. (2 marks) ) Copy the formula to obtain price for the other products. (2 marks) q Calculate total for cost, tax and price. (2 marks) a) Calculate the average, max, min and count for all the products. (5 marks) i) Apply all borders to the spreadsheet and print. (2 marks) h) i) Create a pie chart using product column from sugar to toothbrush and (3 marks) price column. ii) Insert percentages for the pie chart and a heading ‘Shop Products’ and print. (4 marks) Display the formula sheet and print it. (3 marks} QUESTION 3 a) Using a database package create the database below. Save it as School Details and print it. (6 marks) Student ID Surname | First Class Date of Sex Fees name Birth Paid Mark 001 Moyo __| Sally 3A 23/07/1997 | F $75.00 Mark 002 Jeh Ray 3B 15/02/1996 | M $50.00. Mark 003 Moyo Mike 1c 22/02/1996 | M $60.00 Mark 004 Bere Molly | 2B 15/10/1998 | F $60.00 Mark 005, Mari. Clara 2A 21/01/1999 | F $75.00 b) Sort the data in ascending order by surname and print a report for this. (3 marks) c) i) Create a form to capture all data from the table. (3 marks) ii) Create a report for all students titled Students. (3 marks) iii) Create a query to display students who paid fees less than $70.00 and print a report, {3 marks) iv) Create a query to display female students and print a report titled Females. (2 marks)PAPE! R_NO: 115/15/S01B ~ COMPUTER OPERATIONS AND PACKAGES UESTION 4 You hi ave been tasked by your manager to design a gift certificate using a DTP software package of your choice. Use the following information to design the gift certificate. — Company name (1 mark} ~ Business address (1 mark) ~ Name of person receiving the certificate (1 mark) - Company logo (1 mark) ~ Company contact numbers (1 mark) ~ Email address of the company (1 mark) - Signature space (1 mark) ~ Relevant picture (1 mark) - Expiry date (1 mark) - Value of the gift certificate (1 mark) QUESTION 5 Use a presentation package to create a presentation to explain the importance of Technical and Vocational Training in Zimbabwean Education System and save the presentation as TVET’. a) Create a slide with: i) The title TVET in Education’ (1 mark) ii) Subtitle 2017 - 2030 (1 mark} b) _ Insert the following table and a title ‘Embrace TVET Curriculum’ in a second slide. f Why TVET in education? Rating Reduce. [Tobea | To reduce ‘Acquiring |To impact 100% skills gap | complete | unemployment | new skills | entrepreneurial in person | gap skills industry 1 (4 marks} ¢) The last slide, create a bulleted list of the resources needed in the implementation of TVET in Zimbabwe and a title called ‘Conclusion’, Use the following information on resources to create the slide. Funds, Human resourceS, ICT. (3 marks) Print all slides. (1 mark) afi