INSTRUCTIONS: ALL THE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE ATTEMPTED AND MARKS ARE WRITTEN NEXT TO QUESTIONS.

1. NAME AT LEAST FOUR EARLY CALCULATING DEVICES? (1 MARK)

2. DEFINE IPO CYCLE? (1 MARK)
3. WHAT IS AN OPERATING SYSTEM? (1 MARK)
4. NAME ANY TWO POPULAR OPERATING SYSTEMS? (1 MARK)
5. DEFINE & DISTINGUISH BETWEEN DATA AND INFORMATION? (1 MARK)
6. DEFINE ALGORITHM? (1 MARK)
7. DEFINE FLOWCHART? (1 MARK)
8. EXPRESS THE GIVEN BINARY NUMBER IN OCTAL: 0101001001111101? (1 MARK)
9. IS PYTHON CASE SENSITIVE? (1 MARK)
10. WHO PROPOSED THE CONCEPT OF CALCULATING DEVICES? (1 MARK)
11. BRIEFLY EXPLAIN THE ARCHITECTURE OF A COMPUTER? (2 MARK)
12. EXPLAIN VON NEUMANN COMPUTER? (2 MARK)
13. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF TERM VOLATILE PRIMARY MEMORY? WHAT CAN BE DONE TO OVERCOME THE
PROBLEMS OF VOLATILITY? (2 MARK)
14. BRIEFLY EXPLAIN THE MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF OPERATING SYSTEM? (2 MARK)
15. WHAT IS WORD PROCESSING? DISCUSS IT’S PURPOSE IN BRIEF? (2 MARK)
16. EXPLAIN PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE? (2 MARK)
17. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE & A FREEWARE SOFTWARE.EXPLAIN WITH
EXAMPLES? (2 MARK)
18. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF PAGE MAP TABLE IN VIRTUAL MEMORY MANAGEMENT? (2 MARK)
19. BRIEFLY EXPLAIN BOOTING AND THE PROCESS OF COMPUTER STARTUP? (2 MARK)
20. EXPLAIN BRIEFLY THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, & FIRMWARE? (2 MARK)
21. DRAW A BLOCK DIAGRAM OF MAIN UNITS OF A COMPUTER HARDWARE SYSTEM? (2 MARK)
22. WHY ARE DATA TYPES IMPORTANT? (2 MARK)
23. WHAT ARE RELATIONAL OPERATORS.EXPLAIN WITH EXAMPLES? (2 MARK)
24. HOW CAN YOU CONVERT A STRING TO INTEGER AND WHEN IT CAN BE USED? (2 MARK)
25. NAME PYTHON’S FOUR BASIC DATA TYPES?WHY ARE THEY CALLED SO? (2 MARK)
26. THE OPERATING SYSTEM IS CALLED A RESOURCE MANAGER.LIST FOUR DISTINCT RESOURCES OF THE
COMPUTER SYSTEM.WHAT ARE THE GENERAL FUNCTIONS THAT THE OS PERFORMS FOR THESE RESOURCES?
(5 MARK)
27. DIFFERENTIATE: (i) INTERPRETER & COMPILER (ii) BUFFERING & SPOOLING (iii) PRIORITY & ROUND ROBIN
SCHEDULING (iv) RAM & ROM (v) SRAM & DRAM ? (10 MARK)
28. WHAT IS CACHE MEMORY.WHY IS IT CONSIDERED CRUCIAL FOR MICROPROCESSORS PERFORMANCE? ALSO
EXPLAIN TWO TYPES OF CACHE MEMORY? (5 MARK)
29. BRIEFLY EXPLAIN ABOUT ASCII AND DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ASCII AND ISCII? (5 MARK)
30. BRIEFLY EXPLAIN WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY A GOOD PROGRAM.ALSO EXPLAIN WHAT ARE IDENTIFIERS AND
HOW ARE THEY USEFUL? (5 MARK)
31. WHAT ARE THE MAIN ERROR TYPES? WHICH TYPES ARE MOST DANGEROUS AND WHY? (5 MARK)
32. WRITE ALL THE STEPS OF PROGRAM METHODOLOGY? (5 MARK)
33. DRAW A BLOCK DIAGRAM SHOWING INTERCONNECTIONS OF A MICROPROCESSOR? WHAT ARE THE KEY
FEATURES OF EPIC PROCESSORS? (5 MARK)
34. WRITE AN ALGORITHM TO PRINT TABLE OF A GIVEN NUMBER ‘n’. ALSO DRAW A FLOWCHART TO FIND THE
AREA OF A CIRCLE? (10 MARK)