BECE JHS I.C.T 2019 Past Questions

An electronic and programmable device that processes data into useful information is called

Study the text below carefully and use it to answer questions 1(a) to (g).
A.

DISEASES: HOW TO CONTROL THE RISK

Everyday our body wages war against enemies that are silent and unseen but potentially deadly. Foreign invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, and parasites, threaten your health. You are not likely to be aware of those battles because your immune system repels or destroys most of the invaders before the onset of the symptoms.
For thousands of years, people knew virtually nothing about the dangers of microscopic or other small harmful organizations. However, when the 19th-century scientists confirmed the link between germ and diseases, we became better equipped to defend ourselves.

Medical researchers have since eliminated or greatly reduced the threat of some infectious diseases, including smallpox and polio. Recently, however, others, such as yellow fever and dengue, have made a comeback

(a) Write down the application software that was used to create above text.

(b) List two examples of the application software mentioned in (a) above.

(c) Give the name of the text area labelled A.

(d) Write down the name of the font styles applied to the following words in the text

(i) potentially deadly
(ii) harmful organisms
(iii) medical researches

(e) Write down the type of alignment applied to the paragraphs labelled B,C and D in the text.

(f) List the steps used in underlining the words in the text area labelled A, which was typed with the caps lock key on

(g) write down the name given to the process of applying the various styles and paragraphs to the text

Which of the following media uses laser technology to write and read data?

a) Using the table below, indicate where the following components can be seen on the computer
system unit.

CD/DVD slot, CPU, Floppy disk slot, Memory, Motherboard, Power button, Power supply port, PS/2 port, VGA port.

BACK VIEW

Turning off the computer is known as

Explain the following computer terms:
(a) Hardware

(b) Network

(c) Software

(d) Virus

The following are items located on the default taskbar except

(a) State the function of each of the following devices:
(i) Floppy disk
(ii) Keyboard
(iii) Uninterruptible power supply

(b) Explain each of the following terms:
(i) Clicking;
(ii) Dragging

Files are best kept in

State three uses of computers each of the following areas:

(a) Education;

(b) Everyday life

The end results of the information processing cycle that cannot be touched is referred to as

A malicious software specially designed to cause a computer system to be slow and malfunction is

The arrow keys on the computer keyboard are also referred to as

The name given to each cell according to its column label and row number is called

Which of the following applications is an example of a Word processor?

The only software that runs without a user’s instruction on a computer is the

The liquid Crystal Display Monitor of a computer is also known as the

A pen-like device that is used to enter data by applying pressure on a screen is the

One gigabyte of data approximates to

Which of the following devices will turn off first when shutting down the computer?

The title bar of an opened application always displays the name of the application and the name of the

To remove unwanted shortcuts from the desktop which of the following options will be appropriate?
I. Click on the short icon once and press delete key on the keyboard
II. Drag the shortcut icon into the Recycle Bin
III. Right-click on the shortcut icon and select delete from the pop-up menu.

The safety measure to prevent back ache when using the computer for a very long time is to

The best measure that computer users should practice to reduce the chances of wrist and finger pains due to long term usage of the computer is to

Illegal copying of operating system, application software, music and videos is referred to as copyright

To resave an edited document, use

A collection of linked documents or pages stored on millions of computers and distributed across the world is called

The device used to transform digital signals to analogue signals and vice versa on a network is a

Google is an example of a

Mrs Famiyeh wants to copy information onto a compact disc, clean the content and later copy the information again. Which of the following media would advise her to use?

To execute more than one program at the same time, the system software being used should be capable of

Which of the following statements best describes a computer operator? A person who

A document which shows its entire text in upper case means that the user has activated the

Pressing and releasing the left mouse button twice in quick succession is termed

Which of the following keys is used to create a new line in Word processing?

The feature in Word processors that automatically moves the cursor to the beginning of the next line when the current typing line ends is called

A red wavy line under a word in a Word processing document refers to word

The shortcut to some commands on the menu bar of a Word processing application program can be found on the

Which of the following document views would show the document as it would look when it is printed?

The buttons for reload/ refresh, back, stop and forward can be found on the following applications except

The software that enable users access web pages on the internet is called

In computing, the exchange of information is referred to as

Which of the following functions is used to find the mean number in a set of numbers in Spreadsheet?

The content of a selected cell is shown in the

An application that helps the user to change any number in a cell and immediately see the result of that change in another cell is a