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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION 2019/2020

YEAR I SEMESTER II EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF


SCIENCE IN FASHION DESIGN AND TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
SCS 2104-Fundamental of ICT Year I Semester II 2019
Date: Monday, 9th December 2019 Time: 8.30am – 10.30am
INSTRUCTIONS:
Answer question One and any other Two questions
Question One (30 marks)
a) Define Information Technology? [2 marks]
b) Explain the two major parts that make up a computer [4 marks]
c) Define the following terms as used in communication by use of networked
computers [4 marks]
(i) Internet
(ii) Intranet
(iii) Extranet
(iv) E-commerce
d) Explain the two categories of computer software [4 marks]
e) Explain at least 4 benefits of using computers in the modern society [4 marks]
f) Differentiate the following terms as used in computer systems [6 marks)
(i) Hardware
(ii) Software
(iii) Peripheral device
g) Windows is one of the most commonly used operating system; give three
functions of the operating system [3 marks]
h) convert 3710 to its binary equivalence [3 marks]
Question Two (20 Marks)
a) Discuss the five generations of computers [5 marks]
b) State the function of each of the Icon displayed below [5 marks]

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c) Explain the main TWO parts of the Central Processing Unit (CPU) [4 marks]
d) Describe three main uses of internet in the day to day activities [6 marks]
Question Three (20 Marks)
a) Explain at least THREE advantages of file servers in a networked environment
[6 marks]
b) Although computers are of great benefit to the current society they have also
brought some challenges; explain FIVE problems that came as a result of
computers [5 marks]
c) Describe any five statistical functions in Spreadsheet application [5 marks]
d) List and explain the two classifications of computer networks [4 marks]
Question Four (20 Marks)
a) Discuss FIVE advantages of on-line trading /business [5 marks]
b) Explain FIVE different ways in which viruses are spread in computers [5 marks]
c) Differentiate the following terms as used in computing [4 marks]
(i) Data and Information
(ii) RAM and ROM
d) Illustrate with a diagram how you would use a spreadsheet application to
represent data in a pie chart. [6 marks]
Question Five (20 Marks)
a) Briefly describe the Boot Process of a computer system [6 Marks]
b) (i) Define Operating system
(ii) Give TWO examples of Operating system; [4 Marks]
c) Illustrate how you would create a table named student in a database named KyU
with five fields of different datatypes. [6 Marks]
d) Identify FOUR (4) major issues relating to computer systems that could harm
people. For each item, suggest ways of avoiding these issues [4 Marks]

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