Microsoft Office 2003 or earlier Vs.

Microsoft 2007 or later

 docx, xlsx, pptx, etc. Vs. doc, xlx, ppt
 Proprietary software vs FOSS and example of each

Microsoft Excel
 Cell, # of rows/columns, Cell Address, Fill Handle, Autofill
 Range of Cells + Name of Range + Common Errors, Perform Operations on Multiple Sheets
 Auto fit (Fitting the contents of the cell), Wrap Cell Contents, Merge the contents of the cell
 Charts, Referencing Types: Absolute, Relative, and Mixed
 Goal Seek, Pivot Tables, Simple Filtering and Advanced Filtering (regular expressions or
patterns)
 Freezing Rows/ Columns or both, Print Setup
 VLOOKUP/ HLOOKUP, SUM/AVG/MAX/MIN, IF, AND, OR, NOT, SUMIF, COUNTIF
 MACROS, Conditional Formatting, Date Functions

CLOUD COMPUTING – Notes

UNIT-1 – Notes: Basic Block Diagram, Registers, CPU, Characteristics of Computers, Advantages
of Computers in Business, Input / Output Devices, Memory: RAM and ROM and their types, Common
Acronyms like BIOS, EEPROM, SRAM etc., Generations of Computers, Hardware/Software and their
interdependencies on each other, Types of Softwares, Bit, Bytes, KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, EB,ZB)

Search Engine Optimization – Video

Big Data Analytics – Notes
Sentiment Analysis (Intro. only)
Real-Time Bidding (Intro. only)
Recommender Systems (Intro. only)
Supervised (Regression and Classification) Vs. Unsupervised
Learning, Concept of Training set and Testing set

Distributed Vs. Centralized Computing + BlockChain – Link shared

Decimal, Binary, Octal, and Hexadecimal Number System (Class
Notes)
 Binary Arithmetic – Addition + Subtraction (2’s complement and simple)
 Hexadecimal Arithmetic – Addition + Subtraction
 Decimal to Binary and Vice-versa
 Decimal to Octal, Binary to Octal and Vice-versa
 Decimal to Hexadecimal, Binary to Hexadecimal and Vice-versa

Database Management Systems

 Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom (PPT- DBMS Basics)
 Database, Metadata, DataBase Management System (DBMS), Types of Databases,
Characteristics of DBMS, Advantages of DBMS over traditional database, DBMS Users,
When not to use DBMS (PPT- DBMS Basics + DBMS Chapters.pdf)
 Three Schema or Three Tier Architecture, Physical Data Independence Vs. Logical Data
Independence (DBMS Chapters.pdf)
 Database Schema Vs Database State
 Tuple, Order of relation/table, Cardinality
 SQL (SQL Basics.ppt)
 MySQL (42 Queries + 6 more problems done in lab)
o Basic Statements – USE, DESCRIBE, DROP, TRUNCATE, CREATE, INSERT,
SELECT, WHERE
o Keywords: IN, AS, IS NULL, NOT, AND, OR, BETWEEN, DISTINCT, LIKE,
ORDER BY
o Joining of two or more tables, LEFT OUTER JOIN
o Nested SQL Queries

Normalization (FD and Normalization.pptx+Functional

Dependencies_Normalization.pdf +Fundamentals of Database
Systems.pdf)
 What is the need of normalization? De-normalized Database example.
 Types of Anomalies – INSERTION, DELETION, MODIFICATION / UPDATE
 Reasons of NULL
 Guidelines for a good database design
 Functional Dependencies (FDs),
 Closure
 Equivalence of two FDs
 Key, Superkey, Primary Key, Candidate Key
 First Normal Form (1 NF)
 Second Normal Form (2 NF): No Partial dependencies
  Third Normal Form (3 NF): No transitive dependencies

Information Security (Info_Security_Notes.pdf)

 Security, Information/Computer Security
 Vulnerability, Threat, Attacks, Controls
 Types of Threats
 Methods, Opportunity and Motive (MOM)
 Aspects of Info. Security – Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA)
 Conflict between C & A
 Types of Vulnerabilities
 Computer Criminals
 Encryption – Symmetric and Asymmetric
 Keyless Cipher
 Vernam Cipher, Caesar Cipher
 Cryptography, Cryptology, Cryptosystem, Cryptanalyst
 Vigenere Cipher
 Mono-alphabetic Vs Poly-alphabetic ciphers with examples
 Substitution Vs Transposition Ciphers with examples
 Stream Vs Block Ciphers with examples
 Confusion vs Diffusion
 Diffie Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm
 Digital Signature

Management Information Systems (MIS) (MIS Notes for

PGDIM.pdf)
Fundamentals of Networking and Communication
(Networks_Notes_Forouzan.pdf + ch1_v1.ppt + ch2_v1.ppt)