IRIAINI GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL

NAME: _____________________________ADM NO: ____________CLASS: ___________

COMPUTER STUDIES
FORM FOUR
OPENER TERM 1 2025
Time: 2 HRS

SECTION A (Answer all questions in this section)

1. State the technology used in the following computer generations (2 marks)
GENERATION TECHNOLOGY USED
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation

2. State three ways in which computers have been used to fight the spread of MPOX virus in Kenya

3. State and explain two types of booting in computer. (2 marks)

4. Explain the term “log on” as applied in internet (2 marks)

5. (a) What is disk formatting? (1 mark)

(b) State two reasons for disk formatting (2 marks)

6 Name the three files commonly used in mail merge. (3 marks)

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 7. State three reasons why an organisation may opt to develop its own software in-house rather
than buy off-the-shelf software (3marks)

8. A particular computer stores numbers in a single 8-bit word. How would it represent
0.312510 ? (3 marks)

9. (a) What is a firewall? (1 mark)

(b) State the two reasons that may have necessitated disabling of the firewall. (2 marks)

10. Differentiate between absolute and relative cell references. (2 Marks)

11. Bentley Micro finance organization has offices in Kericho and Nairobi connected into a network.
The management is convinced that someone is illegally gaining access to the data in their computers.
State three ways the company can overcome this problem. (3marks)

12. The following worksheet represents the number of litres of milk produced by different cows’ species
at Kajiado Ranch Ltd.
s/no A B C D E
1 Month Friesian Ayrshire Guernsey
2 Jan 70 80 65
3 Feb 120 62 75
4 Mar 110 65 45
5 Apr 70 45 60
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The cost of each litre of milk is Kshs.30/=. This amount is typed in cell B10

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 (a) Write a function using absolute referencing that will calculate the total number of litres of Friesian in
all months (2 marks)

(b) Write a formulae that can be typed in cell E2 and then be copied down to obtain monthly sales of
milk. (1 mark)

(c) Identify the data type in cell C1 and cell D3 (1 mark)

13. State three main types of looping control structures as used in programming. (3 marks)

14. Outline two advantages of wireless media to the school (2 marks)

15. State the functions of the following keys on the computer keyboard:
(a) Backspace (1 mark)

(b) Tab key (1 mark)

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SECTION B
Answer question 16 and any other THREE questions from this section in the spaces provided
16. Define the following terms as used in programming.(8 mks)
a) Assembler

b) Interpreter

c) Compiler

d) Translator

e) List and explain seven stages of Program development Life Cycle in their logical order (7 marks)

17. (a) State three limitations of traditional filing methods. (3 marks)

(b) Below are two table structures of files in a database.

TABLE A TABLE B
FIELD DATA TYPE
FIELD DATA TYPE
Employee name Text
Employee no. Number
Employee number Auto number
Date employed Date/time
DOB Date/time
Department Text
Address Text
Salary Currency

i) Which of the two tables is likely to be the parent table

ii) It is advisable to ‘enforce referential integrity’ when creating a relationships. What do you
understand by the term referential integrity? (2 marks)
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 iii) The field ‘Employee no’ in Table B is likely to be the foreign key. What is a foreign key
iv) Which field in both tables is most appropriate for creating relationship? (1 mark)

v) What would make the relationship between the tables fail to work? (2 marks)

(d) In databases the field properties specify finer details related to the fields and the table entries
expected. State any four field properties. (4 marks)

18. (a) Characteristics of octal number system. (2 marks)

b) i) CONVERT 111.1012 to decimal (4 marks)

ii) Describe three different ways on how a computer can represent negative numbers (3 marks)

iii) Using one’s complement, perform the following arithmetic, leaving the answer IN decimal
notation.
1710 - 4510 (6 marks)

19. Define the following terms:

(a) Data processing. (2 marks)

(b) Data processing cycle (2 marks)

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ii) Describe any two transcription errors. (4 marks)

iii) State any three data processing methods. (3 marks)

iv) Outline two differences between a logical file and a physical file. (4 marks)

20. a) State the differences between a softcopy output devices and hard copy output devices giving an
example in each. (3 marks)

b. List three advantages of Liquid crystal display monitors (3 marks)

c. Define the following terms as used in display. (4 marks)

a. Pixel

b. Resolution.

c. VGA

d. Refresh rate

d. Highlight three importance’s of the internet in today’s business. (3 marks)

e. List two examples of web scripting languages (2 marks)