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DETAILED SYLLABUS POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
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1. TYPES OF COMPUTER
Analog, Digital and Hybrid type, Hardware, Software, System software, Application software, Stored Program Concept and Von Newman Architecture, Firm ware, Human ware, Stored Program Concept, Evolution of computers, Generation of computer.
2. BACKGROUND AND NUMBER SYSTEM
Information Representation and Codes, Data Types, Complements, Addition and Subtraction of Binary Numbers, Fixed Point and Floating Point Representation, Octal and Hexadecimal System, Conversion of Number Systems, Alpha Numeric Codes – ASCII & EBCDIC, Error Detection Codes, Building Blocks of Computers, Combinational Blocks (Gates, Multiplexers, Decoders, Encoders etc.), Sequential Building Blocks (Flip Flops, Registers, Counters, Random Access Memory, etc.)
3. REGISTER TRANSFER LANGUAGE AND MICRO-OPERATIONS
Register Transfer Language, Concept of Bus, Bus and Memory Transfer, Arithmetic Micro Operations, Logical and Shift Micro Operations
4. ARCHITECTURE OF A SIMPLE PROCESSOR
A Simple Computer Organization, Computer Registers, Computer Instructions, Timing and Control, Instruction Cycle, Program Interrupts, Design of Basic Computer
5. CPU ORGANIZATION
Addressing Modes, Instruction Formats, CPU Organization with Large Registers, Stacks and Handling of Interrupts and Subroutines.
6. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Machine language, Assembly language, High level language
7. ORGANISATION OF A DIGITAL COMPUTER
Input unit, Output unit, Central Processing unit, Memory
8. DATA PROCESSING
Data collection, Classification, Sorting and Merging, Processing, Summarising, Storing
9. DATA ORGANISATION
Organisation Data, Character, Field, Record, File, Database, Sequential Access, Random Access, Indexed Sequential Access
10. PROGRAMMING PROCESS
Problem Definition, Algorithm, Flowchart and coding, Testing and debugging, Implementation, Documentation, Structured Programming
11. DATA COMMUNICATION
Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, Satellite Communication, Internet
12. OPERATING SYSTEM
Introduction, Different Operating Systems, Loading and Quitting the Operating Systems, Important DOS Commands
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OPERATING SYSTEM CONCEPTS USING WINDOWS AND LINUX
1. INTRODUCTION TO OPERATING SYSTEM
Definition and Necessity, Evolution and types, Concepts, Processor, Computing Environments, Structure, Hardware Organization and Architecture, Design Trends and Implementations
2. PROCESSOR AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT
Process and States, Context Switching, Scheduling and Synchronization, Inter process Communication, Concurrent Processes, Threads, Critical Regions, Recover Prevention and Solutions of Dead locks, Inter Process Communication for Multi-Threaded and Multiple CPU Systems, Memory System, Types and Organizations, Cache Memory, Allocation Techniques, Partitioning, Static, Dynamic and Augmentation Paging, Swapping, Virtual Memory
3. INPUT /OUTPUT AND FILE SYSTEMS
Input/Out put devices, Controllers and Channels, BUS structures, Input /Output techniques, Programmed Interrupt driven and DMA, Input /Output Subsystem layers, Graphic Support Devices, Multi Media Systems, File Systems concepts, General Hierarchical Models of file system, File and Directories, Allocation and storage issues, Connectivity, Access control and Security
4. PROCESSOR SYSTEMS
Single CPU and Multiple CPU systems, Types and Needs of multi processing systems, RISC Approach, Pipelining, Client Server concepts, Distributed systems, Networking and Services, Reliability Issues, Fault Tolerant Systems
5. LOCAL AREA NETWORK
Introduction to Network, Advantages, Network Technology, Ethernet, Arcnet, IBM Token Ring, Cabling Method, Connectors, Terminators, Hub (Active & Passive), Inter Networking, Bridges & gate ways, Real world networking, LAN Software, LAN commands, User Commands, Supervisor commands, Console commands, use of system utilities, printer queue, SPOOL, local/shared printing, Priority printing, user rights, Workstation Generation, Creation of AUTOEXEC.BAT file, MAKEUSER, user Rights, SYSCON: System configuration, FILER : Directories & Files, FCONSOLE : Menu Utility, File Server, Communication server, File server protocol, Hardware requirements, Hard disk, Memory, Types of workstation & Operating systems, Network bridges, Method of combining various types of topologies together, Setting-up of hardware for LAN installations