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BECE 2025 - COMPUTING [PAPER II]
This paper is in two sections: A and B. Answer Question 1 in Section A and any other three questions in Section B.
Answer all the questions in the spaces provided in this question paper. At the end of the examination, you should submit the entire question paper to the invigilator.
Any candidate who tears off any part of the question paper will be severely penalized.
Whether you answer all the questions in this paper or not, hand in the entire question paper to the invigilator.
Credit will be given for clarity of expression and orderly presentation of material.
SECTION A
[24 marks]
Answer Question 1.
[Compulsory]
1. As a computing student, you are to program a robot to assist your colleagues to buy stationery from a shop. The sequence of activities undertaken to buy the stationery at the shop is as follows:
- Go to the stationery shop;
- Select the needed stationery;
- Check the price of the selected stationery;
- Go to the cash counter;
- Pay money to the cashier;
- Take the stationery along;
- Leave the shop.
(a) Draw a flowchart using the sequence of activities.
(b) Suggest three modes of payment the students could use to pay the cashier.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
(iii) ______________________________________________________
(c) Describe one of the modes of payment suggested in 1(b). [3 marks]
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(d) Assume that there are four cashiers at the shop, and each of them uses a computer which is not networked for their work. Draw a well-labelled diagram to illustrate two network topologies that could be used to network the computers.
(i) [3 marks]
(ii) [2 marks]
Section A
(c) Kofi, a student in your school visited the stationery shop for two days and his expenditure at the shop is as follows:
On Monday, he bought 4 exercise books for Gh¢ 60.00. On Tuesday, he bought 6 pens for Gh¢ 40.00.
Complete the Microsoft Excel worksheet using Kofi’s two days expenditure at the stationery shop as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1
[2 marks]
(ii) Write a formula in Microsoft Excel to compute Kofi’s total amount spent for the two days at the stationery shop.
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[2 marks]
Section B
(36 marks)
Answer three questions only from this section.
(a) Explain the concept of perceptual computing to colleagues in the computing club.
[3 marks]
(b) Most companies use data entry devices that capture machine-readable data directly into the computer system without using the keyboard.
List three of such data entry devices.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
(iii) ______________________________________________________[3 marks]
(c) A student is planning to compress a file on a computer so that it can be sent to a friend through e-mail.
Suggest two techniques that can be used to compress the file.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
(d) A student complained of eye strain due to prolonged use of the computer.
State two possible ways to prevent the problem.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
3. (a) Outline the steps on how to make the word "Computing" in a Word processing document a hyperlink to the website address www.waeegh.org.
(c) In designing a presentation, shapes allow the user to create complex objects on the slide.
List two categories in which objects found under the shape tool are grouped.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________[2 marks]
(e) A Microsoft Publisher assignment requires that texts are written over an image on a flyer.
Outline the steps to accomplish the assignment. [4 marks]
(4) (a) State one of the data communication models for networks.
[2 marks]
(b) Social media sites were created for friendships, learning, entertainment and other purposes.
List two of the sites used for video-sharing.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________[2 marks]
(c) Outline two of the key principles governing information security:
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
(d) Describe how the following search techniques are used to search for information on the Internet:
(i) AND;
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(ii) NOT.
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5. (a) Convert 100102 to a decimal number. [3 marks]
(b) In the real-world environment, outline two applications of robotics in each of the following areas:
(i) Education;
(a) ______________________________________________________
(B) ______________________________________________________
(ii) Transportation. [2 marks]
(a) ______________________________________________________
(B) ______________________________________________________
(c) A school’s robotics club is to construct a robot to be shown during a robotics exhibition organized by the District Education Office.
List two components of the robot to be constructed.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
(d) Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a computer or computer-controlled robots to perform tasks like human beings.
List two abilities that make the computers or computer-controlled robots intelligent.
(i) ______________________________________________________
(ii) ______________________________________________________
END OF ESSAY TEST
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