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Computer Awareness English Medium

Computer knowledge for Rajasthan and other competitive exams — hardware, memory, software, operating systems, Windows, MS Office, databases, networks, the internet and security, explained from the basics in Hindi and English, with practice.

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Chapter 1 English Medium Computer Fundamentals Introduction to Computer What a computer is, its four jobs and nine features, history (Abacus to IBM-650), five generations, types (by size, work and purpose), supercomputers, uses, AI and robotics — with flashcards and a 30-question quiz. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium Computer Fundamentals Computer Architecture How a computer is built: input, output and memory units, the CPU (ALU, registers, CU), the microprocessor, the motherboard, kinds of bus, the instruction cycle, op-code and operand, UPS and DMA — with flashcards and a 31-question quiz. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium Computer Fundamentals Computer Hardware Input devices (keyboard, mouse, OMR, OCR, MICR, scanner…), output devices (monitor, every kind of printer, plotter, speaker, projector) and ports (parallel, serial, USB, firewire) — with flashcards and a 46-question quiz. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium Computer Fundamentals Computer Memory Primary memory (RAM, DRAM/SRAM, ROM, PROM/EPROM/EEPROM, cache, flash, virtual), secondary storage (hard disk, floppy, tape, CD/DVD/Blu-ray, pen drive), capacities and units from bit to yottabyte — with flashcards and a 52-question quiz. Open map Chapter 5 Pass English Medium Computer Fundamentals Data Representation Binary, decimal, octal and hexadecimal systems, every conversion with solved examples, the BCD/ASCII/EBCDIC/Unicode codes, the sign bit, one’s complement and the truth tables of six logic gates — with flashcards and a 40-question quiz. Open map Chapter 1 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office Computer Software System software (OS, BIOS, drivers, compiler-assembler-interpreter, linker, loader), general- and specific-purpose application software, system utilities, firmware, freeware and CAD — with flashcards and a 38-question quiz. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office Operating System Definition and functions of an OS, process-kernel-shell-spooling, kinds of OS (batch, multi-user, multitasking, time sharing, RTOS), GUI-CUI, booting, Unix-Mac-Linux-Windows, mobile OSs and the structure and commands of MS-DOS — with flashcards and a 50-question quiz. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office Programming Concepts Programs, algorithms, levels and generations of languages, the major languages from FORTRAN to Java, assembler-interpreter-compiler, the four kinds of error, debugging and OOP — with flashcards and a 42-question quiz. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office Microsoft Windows Windows versions (NT to 10), the desktop, icons, task bar, Start menu, structure of a window, built-in programs, files-folders-libraries, extensions and shortcut keys — with flashcards and a 48-question quiz. Open map Chapter 5 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office MS-Office & MS-Word The five packages of Microsoft Office and MS-Word — parts of the window, seven ribbon tabs, editing and formatting, checking tools, ways of saving and shortcuts — with flashcards and a 45-question quiz. Open map Chapter 6 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office MS-Excel Spreadsheet terms (cell, worksheet, workbook), the Excel window and ribbon, formulas, functions and cell references, chart types and parts, and shortcuts — with flashcards and a 41-question quiz. Open map Chapter 7 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office MS-PowerPoint Presentation software, the PowerPoint window, the five views (Normal, Sorter, Notes, Show, Master), facts like trigger, zoom and formats, and shortcuts — with flashcards and a 27-question quiz. Open map Chapter 8 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Software, Windows & Office MS-Access & MS-Outlook Databases and MS-Access: four components, five queries, templates, fields and data types, the primary key, views, relationships, shortcuts — and the e-mail client MS-Outlook; with flashcards and a 31-question quiz. Open map Chapter 1 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Database, Networks & Security Database Concepts Data and information, types and components of a database, the three levels of a DBMS, advantages-disadvantages-uses, DDL/DML/DCL, relational-model terms, the four kinds of key and the E-R model — with flashcards and a 48-question quiz. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Database, Networks & Security Data Communication & Networking Signals and channels, guided and unguided media, bandwidth, LAN-WAN-MAN-PAN, network devices (repeater to modem), the five topologies, P2P and client-server, the seven OSI layers and network terms — with flashcards and a 52-question quiz. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Database, Networks & Security Internet & Its Services The history and pros and cons of the Internet, dial-up/broadband/wireless connections, protocols such as TCP/IP-FTP-HTTP-HTML-SMTP, the WWW, web page-website-browser, URL-domain-DNS, search engines, e-mail and e-commerce services — with flashcards and a 71-question quiz. Open map Chapter 4 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Database, Networks & Security Computer Security The four methods and seven components of computer security, cryptography, kinds and effects of viruses, worm-trojan-spyware, threats such as hacking-phishing-spoofing, and safeguards like antivirus-firewall-passwords — with flashcards and a 71-question quiz. Open map Chapter 1 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Quick Reference Key Abbreviations Nearly 300 computer abbreviations and full forms in six topic groups, with a meaning on every row — plus flashcards and a 65-question quiz. Open map Chapter 2 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Quick Reference Glossary Around 250 computer terms and their meanings in seven groups — plus flashcards and a 66-question quiz. Open map Chapter 3 Pass English Medium Computer Awareness · Quick Reference Practice Sets: Key Points & Mixed Tests Facts that recur across five practice sets — hardware, software, office tools, Internet and security — with the “why”, flashcards, and five mixed tests of 0 questions in fresh wording. Open map