Data Processing Paper 2, WASSCE (SC), 2019

Question 2

 

Hamza, Emeka, Funsho, Fejiro and Idongesit were friends from secondary school. Now, Hamza is a Pilot, Emeka is a businessman, Funsho is a banker, Fejiro is a manufacturer while Idongesit is a teacher. State two ways by which each of these friends can apply ICT in their respective professions.

Observation

 

The expected answers were:

Application of ICT in everyday life



NAME

PROFESSION

ICT USAGE

Hamza

Pilot

(i) navigation in the air
(ii) communicate with control tower/other
pilots/crew members/passengers/office
(iii) weather information system
(iv) flight tracking
(v) flight booking
(vi) training/simulation
(vii)record keeping
(viii)recruitment

 

 

NAME

PROFESSION

ICT USAGE

Emeka

Commerce

(i) advertisement
(ii) purchases/buying
(iii) online sales/ selling
(iv) barcode reader
(v) POS terminals/e-payment
(vi) stock market
(vii) inventory
(viii) stock keeping
(ix)   product identification
(x)   tracking of goods & services
(xi)  customer services
(xii) payroll management
(xiii) market  research/survey
(xiv)record keeping  
(xv) recruitment

Funsho

Banking

(i) online/e-banking services
(ii) Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT)
(iii) Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR)
(iv) ATM transaction
(v) mobile banking
(vi) capturing customer details
(vii) financial forecasting
(viii) POS services
(xi)  Accounts/Banking software
(x)  Online training
(xi) record  keeping
(xii) recruitment

Fejiro

Manufacturing

(i) research & development
(ii) Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
(iii) Computer Aided Design (CAD)
(iv) robots
(v) inventory management
(vi) distribution of products
(vii) information search/sharing
(viii) collaboration
(ix)  tracking of products
(x)  bills payment
(xi) record keeping
(xii) recruitment

 

 

 

NAME

PROFESSION

ICT USAGE

Idongesit

Education

(i)   research & collaboration
(ii)  instructional material
(iii) Computer Aided Instruction
(iv)  Computer Based testing (CBT)
(v)   Computer Managed Instruction (CMI)
(vi)  e-learning platform
(vii) classroom instruction
(viii) lesson preparation
(ix)   data processing
(x)    Distance Education
(xi)   Distance Learning
(xii)  e-library
(xiii) resource management
(xiv) result checker
(xv)  school administration
(xvi) online registration
(xvii) teleconferencing
(xviii) video conferencing
(xix)   computer simulation
(xx)    data analysis
(xxi)  staff/students  record keeping
(xxii) recruitment

 

The question required candidates’ knowledge on application of ICT.

The chief examiner reported that majority of the candidates showed fair knowledge of ICT application.