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840/1
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY
Paper 1
2 ¼ hours

BRISTOL HIGH SCHOOL, MATUGGA

Uganda Certificate of Lower Education
INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Paper One
Theory paper
2hours 15 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS:
 The paper consists of two sections; A and B
 Section A has ten structured questions; answer all questions in the spaces
provided.
 Section B has 3 essay type questions; choose any two questions of your choice.

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 SECTION A (50 MARKS)
Answer all questions in the space provided.
1. Musa’s brother often plays games on his laptop when he returns home.
unfortunately, his brother accidently deleted some of his files while playing on
the computer
(a) What ICT term is used to refer to place where all deleted items on a
computer are stored?
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(b) Using your knowledge as an ICT student, outline the steps Musa can go
through to retrieve his lost files.
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(c) Musa’s deleted the files while he attempted to open them. Guide his brother
on the proper procedure for opening a file on the desktop.
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2. The use of computers and other ICT devices has been quickly adopted among
people in their day-to-day activities. Briefly suggest how ICT has been
integrated in the following sectors of the economy.
Health
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Transport
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3. Lydia kiganda works as a secretary at Bristol High school. One of her roles is
typing examinations at the school. Recently she has been experiencing pain
around her wrist. She visited the doctor who told her that this condition has
been caused to the nature of her work.
(a) Identify the computer part which is mostly likely to have caused the above
problem.
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(b) Imagine you are the doctor she visited. Describe any two quick solutions
you advise Lydia to undertake in order to prevent the situation from
occurring again.
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(c) Apart from the condition described above, identify any two other health
risks that may arise due to over interaction with computers.
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4. Below is a list of computer terms. Study them carefully and fill in correctly for
(i) to (iv).
Booting data processing hardcopy ergonomics codeless
clicking internet RSI email LED information
(i) Output that is printed on paper, clothes and other printing material can
also be known as……………………………………………………….
(ii) ………………………. Are raw facts without meaning that is feed in the
computer for processing.
(iii) The interconnection of computers all over the globe is termed
as…………………………………………………………….
(iv) The act of pressing the left mouse button just once is known as
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(v) The general term used to collectively identify all physical health risks
developed due to interaction with certain computer parts is
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 5. Odong visited the internet café in order to open up an email account, however
during the process he encountered some hiccups as he attempted to proceed
with account opening.
(a) Help Odongo distinguish between sign in and sign up.
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(b) Provided Gmail was the email service he was using and Odongo256 was his
username. Write down his email address.
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(c) Other than email, suggest any other service of the internet that Odong can
find useful to support his online education
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6. Mukisa a business man in Matugga would wish to open an internet café. He
visited electronic shop in order to buy monitors for his new business. He was
informed that computer monitors come into two main types.
(a) Identify the two types of computer monitors
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(b) Imagine you were in Mukasa’s shoes, which type of monitor would you buy
and give two reasons for your answer.
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Reasons
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(c) Other than a monitor, identify any other output device Mukisa can buy for
his business.
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7. Bristol high school wants to host a inter school debate competition. The school
debate prefect was tasked with writing invitation letters to neighboring schools.
(a) Other than Microsoft Word, suggest any other program that he can
successively use to write the above document.
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 (b) Suggest any other two documents that can be created using word
processing software.
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(c) Which word processing feature will help the prefect produce the same
document addressed to different recipients.
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(d) Give one reason why word processing software is more popular than
typewriters today.
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