 MEANING AND NEED OF INFORMATION

 LEVELS OF INFORMATION HANDLING

 TOOLS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
 COMPUTER HISTORY
 EVOLUTION OF COMPUTER SYSTEM
 GENERATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEM
 FUNCTION COMPONENTS OF A COMPUTER
 BLOCK DIAGRAM OF A COMPUTER
 FUNCTIONS OF THE DIFFERENT UNITS

 COMPUTER HARDWARE
 COMPUTER SOFTWARES & THEIR CATEGORIZATION
 INPUT DEVICES
 KEYBOARD & ITS TYPES
 MOUSE & ITS TYPES
 TRACKBALL
 JOYSTICK
 LIGHT PEN
 VOICE RECOGNITION DEVICES
 DIGITIZERS
 DATA SCANNING DEVICES :
 IMAGE SCANNER
 OCR
 MICR
 BARCODE READER
 QRCODE READER
 CARD READER
 STORAGE CAPACITY
 DATA TRANSFER TIME & RATE
 WINCHESTER DISK
 MEMORY DEVICES :
MAGNETIC TAPE
MAGNETIC DISK : FLOPPY DISK & HARD DISK
 TRACKS , SECTORS , CYLINDER
 ACCESS TIME

 OUTPUT DEVICES :
 PRINTERS AND THEIR CLASSIFICATIONS
 IMPACT AND NON-IMPACT PRINTERS
 PLOTTERS
 MONITOR & ITS TYPES
 CRT , LCD , LED , OLED
 PROJECTOR

 RAM , SRAM , DRAM , ROM , PROM , EPROM ,

EEPROM , UVPROM
 SOFTWARES AND THEIR CATEGORIZATION
 OS AND ITS SIGNIFICANT FUNCTIONS
 COMPONENTS OF OS
 INTERACTION OF OS WITH H/W & USER PROGRAMS
 SINGLE USER AND MULTI TASKING OS

 DOS
 DIRECTORY STRUCTURE IN DOS
 BIOS
 DOS COMMANDS , INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL
 BACKUPS AND RESTORE
 BIOS AND DOS INTERRUPTS

 BOOTING PROCEDURE IN IBM’S SYSTEM

 SYSTEM FILES
 SELF TEST FILES
 BATCH FILES
 CONFIG.SYS
 .EXE , .COM , .TXT , .BIN & OTHER FILES

 SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT LIFE CYCLE

 COMPUTER BASED INFORMATION SYSTEM
 DATA COLLECTION
 VERIFICATION & VALIDATION
 EDITING & CHECKING
 FLOWCHART , DATA DICTIONARY , DECISION TABLE