1.Information Technology – its concept and scope
2. Computers for information storage, information seeking, information processing
and information transmission
3. Elements of computer system, computer hardware and software; data – numeric
data, alpha numeric data; contents of a program, processing
4. Computer organization, block diagram of a computer, CPU, memory
5. Input devices; keyboard, mouse etc; output devices; VDU and Printer, Scanner,
Plotter
6. Electrical requirements, inter-connections between units, connectors and cables
7. Secondary storage; magnetic disks – tracks and sectors, optical disk (CD and
DVD Memory), primary and secondary memory: RAM, ROM, PROM etc.,
Capacity; device controllers, serial port, parallel port, system bus
8. Exercises on file opening and closing; memory management; device management
and input – output (I/O) management with respect of windows
9. Installation concept and precautions to be observed while installing the system
and software
10. Introduction about Operating Systems such as MS-DOS and Windows
11. Special features, various commands of MS word and MS-Excel
12. About the internet – server types, connectivity (TCP/IP, shell); applications of
internet like: e-mail and browsing
13. Various Browsers like WWW (World wide web); hyperlinks; HTTP (Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol); FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
14. Basics of Networking – LAN,WAN, Topologies
15.Data Base Management System
