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THE WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL
GHANA

Basic Education Certificate Examination

Computing 2024

Objective Test

Question 1

A student in the computer laboratory wants to change the style, size and colour of a typeface in Microsoft Word application. The appropriate tool to be used is





Question 2

A quiz master asked participants to complete the statement: whiles the Internet Explorer is used to access information from the internet, Windows File Explorer is used to





Question 3

The concept of Artificial Intelligence's ability to suggest related information to a user who regularly surfs the internet is referred to as





Question 4

A blog has many sections. The purpose of the comment section is to





Question 5

In a printing industry, the device that uses the mechanism of laying down a transparent dye and melting dots of wax-based ink to produce an output is a





Question 6

Collaborative robot is a category of robots that





Question 7

A student inserted a picture into a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and needed to work on the picture to adjust the brightness and contrast to make it more clearer. The best tool to help the student achieve the task is





Question 8

A student is watching video from a pen drive using a computer. The process the computer uses to access the video from the pen drive is known as





Question 9

What does the formula = IF(A1>10,\"Pass\",\"Fail\") do in a Spreadsheet application?





Question 10

A teacher tasked students to demonstrate an activity using a flowchart diagram. The appropriate symbol to use at the processing stage of the activity is





Question 11

Settings and permissions that are specific to a user and determines the activities the user can perform on windows environment on the computer is known as





Question 12

Good health practice suggests that we take intermittent breaks while working. The importance of taking breaks during prolonged computer use is to





Question 13

Four students in a class wrote the following function in Microsoft Excel. Which of the functions written by the students will return an output?





Question 14

To demonstrate to a class, the steps to be taken to create a PivotTable from a set of data in Microsoft Excel worksheet, click on





Question 15

In a computer shop, the attendant advised a customer to buy the fifth generation computer due to its feature that uses





Question 16

The social media platform that allows members to post questions, start a discussion or contribute to various discussions is





Question 17

The introduction of Artificial Intelligence as come with its related ethical concerns such as





Question 18

A user who selected 4 x 3 in the insert table grid in a Word document will insert





Question 19

The Screenshot feature under the Insert Tab of a Microsoft PowerPoint application allows a user to insert a screenshot of





Question 20

The examination scores in Computing of a class was entered into a Microsoft Excel worksheet. The appropriate function for finding the largest score in the class is





Question 21

In pseudocode, the keyword FOR indicates





Question 22

The central device that communicates with other network devices and manages resources is a





Question 23

A user is to apply predefined formatting styles to texts in Microsoft PowerPoint application. The best features to use is





Question 24

The robotic club of a school is to construct a robot to be able to detect objects around it. The most appropriate sensor to be used is





Question 25

A teacher tasked her students to create a date with year, month and day format. The most appropriate Microsoft Excel function to achieve the date format is





Question 26

Cybercriminals can obstruct data in transmission to and from a device or a network using a data threat attack technique called





Question 27

A teacher sends class assignment to his students using an e-mail. The protocol used by the e-mail to send the assignment over the internet is





Question 28

The Merge & Centre button in a Spreadsheet application is used to





Question 29

Arku entered 20 into a computer as quantity of pencils bought. How will the figure be represented in the computer for processing?





Question 30

Cindy was trying to access information from the WAEC website but whenever she enters the URL, it takes her to a different website. Her friend advised that she must ensure the URL entered is correct because it identifies





Question 31

In Desktop Publishing, a user can create a new document through the following ways except for





Question 32

The Desktop Publishing feature that best helps a user to align objects, texts and elements in a publication is called





Question 33

One of your classmates continuously sends threat messages through social media platforms to you. This act is known as





Question 34

A computing project work requires students to design a blog for a school. The best item to be used for customizing the blog is the school's





Question 35

Computer manufacturing went through series of developmental stages with each stage characterized by a unique technological advancement. The use of integrated circuits is a characteristic of the





Question 36

In computer programming, debugging is a technique used to





Question 37

Which of the following services best describes an entrepreneurial opportunity in computer networking?





Question 38

The peripheral device shown in Figure 1 is used to capture





Question 39

The practice of the use of computers and related electronic resources in an environmentally responsible manner is termed





Question 40

Social media users can regulate the type of information they share on their pages. Privacy setting which is one of such activities they can regulate is to