Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises the Form 3 Computer Studies Term 2 Opener Exam 2025 with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request.

  The exam paper contains 15 questions. All questions are to be answered. The exam is marked out of a total of 100 marks and should be completed by learners within a duration of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

  The topics covered in the exam include:

  • Classification of computers according to functionality
  • Ergonomics in a computer lab
  • Differences between CRT and TFT monitors, and OBR and OMR
  • Factors to consider when selecting an operating system
  • Advantages of command-line based operating systems
  • Symptoms of a computer infected by a virus
  • Properties that an operating system displays about a file
  • Data security and data privacy
  • Ways data security can be compromised
  • Solutions to data loss
  • Definitions of data encryption and firewall
  • Data processing modes
  • Types of errors (transcription, truncation, rounding)
  • File organization methods (random, indexed sequential, logical, physical)
  • Data processing stages
  • Spreadsheet terms (cell, range, label, value, function)
  • Spreadsheet formulas and graphs
  • Number conversions (decimal to binary, hexadecimal to binary)
  • Two's complement arithmetic
  • Word processor terms (word wrap, justification, drop cap)
  • Editing tools in word processors
  • Examples of flat panel monitors
  • Hardware components of a computer system
  • Email terms (compose, sign out, inbox)
  • Database models
  • Functions of field properties (format, default value)
• File Size:

  32.75 KB
• Length:

  9 pages
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 3
• Subject:

  COMPUTER STUDIES
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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