Advanced level 2025 South West regional mock ICT guide
Advanced level 2025 South West regional mock ICT guide
| 1 | a) ✓✓✓✓(4 marks) | b) ✓✓ | c) ✓(1 mark) |
| (i) | Malware: Malicious software that infects electronic devices enabling intruders to secretly carry harmful attacks or actions on the computer, server and network.eg trojan horse, spyware, worm, logic bomb etc. Firmware: software embedded into hardware components to control the way they function eg BIOS, flash memory chip, software in smart watches, smart TV, washing machines etc |
-Slows down the computer – Programs crashing – Strange programs appear in your machine |
– Regularly update your system -use malware protection software – Download from trust worthy sites etc – Don’t download pirated files or suspicious sites and pop-ups etc |
| (ii) | a) ✓(1mk) | b) ✓✓✓✓(4mks) 2mks for pos. pts, 2mks for neg. Pts. | |
| AI: Science of making machines to think and behave like human. |
Social implications: Positive implications – Increases accessibility to learning process and material – Customisation of learning – Access to organised information – Encourages interactive learning and real-time or instant feedback – Access to education for students with special needs thus bridge the gap between normal students and those with social situation. Negative implications. – Privacy and security concern on the use of student’s data; insufficient measures to guarantee private data. – Limits student- teacher interaction with over dependent on AI; absence of emotional bonds; l Lack of human contact. – Digital divide: Creates educational gap between students with access to AI tools and those that don’t have. – Mitigation of academic integrity: students use AI to generate content or do assignment without proper understanding of how it is done. – Lack of clear regulation in the use of AI in teaching |
