Summary

• Description:

  The MS Word document comprises Form 4 Computer Studies Paper 1 End of Term 1 2026 Exam with Marking Scheme. The PDF version is also available upon your request.

  It is a Form 4 Computer Studies Paper 1 (451/1) examination.

  • Duration: 2 ½ Hours
  • Total Marks: 100
  • Number of Questions: 20 (Questions 1–20)
  • Marking Scheme: The marking scheme is in a different document.

  It covers the following topics:

  • Computer hardware (input and output devices, troubleshooting keyboards and monitors)
  • Software and operating systems (software purchasing factors, OS patches, identifying illegal software copies)
  • Data security and controls (recovering erased data, preventing illegal data alterations in banks, backup strategies, ethical hacking)
  • Spreadsheets (using functions like SUM and SUMIF, formatting features, and applications in activities like a national census)
  • Database management (action versus select queries, data collection errors, sampling)
  • Desktop publishing and word processing (publication design factors, benefits of DTP over word processors, mail merging)
  • Internet and ICT impact (e-mail features, web advertising, ATMs in banking, multimedia training, Virtual Reality tours, moral effects of the internet)
  • Programming and algorithms (assemblers vs. compilers, structured programming, encapsulation, syntax, web scripting tags, algorithm design)
  • Data representation (numbering systems, binary arithmetic using ones complement, character coding schemes)
  • System development (reasons for needing an information system, system construction)
• File Size:

  30.56 KB
• Length:

  11 pages
• Category:

  Exams
• Level:

  Form 4
• Subject:

  COMPUTER STUDIES
• Posted By:

  Caleb_Peter

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