Computer Exam Essay

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SECTION B
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Cover page is the first part of an essay or report that will seen, so it should be clear and concise. Cover pages should include the essay's title, author, date of publication and other information such as the name of the academic part affiliated with the essay should be included. Instructions. Firstly, you must make sure that the cover page is a separate page from the rest of the essay and must be the first page of the essay. It should not have a page number. Secondly, the font for the text on the cover page use must be professional and academically , using font as Times New Roman or Arial and not use fonts or that look like handwriting. Insert the full title of the essay near the middle of the page and centre the title. Format the title where all the main words are capitalized and make the title font size larger than the rest of the text on the page. While placing the author's name a few lines under the title. Lastly, add the date of publication a few lines under the author's name. Include the month (spelled out), day and year of publication and list affiliations, if necessary. It may be necessary to list the name of the company or university that sponsored the report, for example.
All these will features offers the author of the report to design the work and helps to identify the author of the report. It also enables the reader to know what company or institution the report is affliated.

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Citation and bibliography tools in MS word are important in order to avoid plagiarism. It helps the author to acknowledge the sources of information consulted before the preparation of his documents. Word includes a robust feature, the Citations & Bibliography group on the References tab, for tracking sources and creating citations. A citation is a note recognizing the source of information or a quoted passage. Harvard style citations consist of author, including family names and the date of publication of an item, article title, publisher and where it is published.
A bibliography is a list of resources cited or consulted by the author. It should be included with the document when it is published to give credit to the sources, allow validation of your references for accuracy, and as a show of respect to other authors. It allow the author to demonstrate your width of reading and knowledge about a subject, to support and/or develop points made in the text and to avoid accusations of plagiarism.
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A vlookup is a function which allows a given value to be looked up from within a table, and an alternative column to be returned from that table. It can also return the closest match to the value being looked up so that each row in the table can represent ranges of values.

The table being looked into can be within a different spreadsheet to the one currently being worked on, and this spreadsheet can be shared between multiple users.

There are many advantages to using a vlookup. The main advantages are enhanced presentation (data can be looked up and displayed on a form), and that tables of values don't need to be repeated on the spreadsheet, significantly reducing space and data maintenance issues.

Once a formula for a lookup has been set up, it can quickly and easily be copied to different areas in the spreadsheet so that it can refer to adjacent cells in a list. SECTION C
QUESTION 2
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A computer system is made up of both hardware and information stored on hardware, which are generally called software. The hardware components are the electronic and mechanical part that has a physical presence that can be touch or seen while the software components of a computer system are the data and the computer programs. There are five main hardware components of a computer system namely Central Processing Unit (CPU), Processor, Main memory, storage, Input devices and output devices. The input devices are made up of Keyboard, mouse, digital camera, joystick and scanner while the output includes Monitor, printer and