EDU430 Midterm MCQs and Subjective

DOS is application or system software?

This is called as Disk Operating System. The operating system used on IBM personal computers and compatible machines.

Difference b/w memory card and USB drive. Memory card is a type of flash memory used to store data in digital cameras, cell phones, MP3 players etc. USB Stick is a data storage device. It features small dimensions, relatively high capacity, reliability and speed. It belongs to the type of flash memory that remembers data, even when not under voltage i.e. they do not need electric power to maintain data integrity.

What is E-learning?

E-learning consists of all forms of learning and/or knowledge transfer that are based on electronic technologies. This term will mostly be used to describe learning and/or dissemination of knowledge without direct teacher-student contact, while using ICT technology.

What is address resolution?

It is the conversion of an IP Address to the corresponding low-level physical address. ARP is the abbreviation of Address Resolution Protocol. It is used to dynamically discover the low-level physical network hardware address that corresponds to the high level IP Address for a given host, for instance. ARP is limited to physical network systems that support broadcast packets that can be heard by all hosts on the network. See also Proxy ARP.

What is A/d converter?

A device used to convert analog data to digital data. Analog data is continuously variable, while digital data contains discrete steps.

Explain in detail what video conferencing is

Videoconferencing or Video Conferencing: A computer-based communications system that allows a group of computer users at different locations to conduct a "virtual conference" in which the participants can see and hear one another as if they were in the same room participating in a real conference.

Baray bahi sahib was written by?

Munshi Prem Chan, a great humanist writer, famous for short stories and novels, but in reality a school master

Undo shortcut key?

Ctrl + z

Avatar

Avatar is defined as, a graphical representation of a real person, such as used in a MUVE or MMORPG, a kind of "virtual world". Participants in a MUVE or MMORPG choose a name and a visual representation of the character that they wish to adopt as an inhabitant of the MUVE or player in the MMORPG.

Scanner

Scanner is used to load data (image, text, etc.) from the printed material into a computer. The result of scanning is an image, but with special programs, if we scan the text, we can get a text as a result. Software used to recognize text from image is called a text recognition tool.

Field trip and types

The tour made by a group is often known as Field Trip

Provides direct experience leading to effective understanding

Excursions usually involve a tour by a person or a group of person to some selected lace. An excursion undertaken for gathering objective based learning experience is study tour. Types:

o Exhibition · o Demonstration · o Dramatization · o Museum · o Planetarium · o Aquarium · o Terrarium · o Vivarium · Define teaching machine? 2 marks

These were developed by S.L. Pressy. It’s a piece of device designed to be operated by an individual student for self-learning. The student is presented with a question by some form of display on the machine. The student is required to respond either to write answer or put a button to indicate the correct response.

Define the term compatibility? 2 marks

Compatibility is referred to pieces of hardware and/or software which is capable of being used together is described as compatible.

Define binary? 2 marks

This is a numbering system with only two values: 0 (zero) and 1 (one)

What is the meaning of web server? 3 marks

A Web server is a program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files form Web pages to users It is a programme and a computer clubbed into one entity which responds to the requests from web browsers for internet resources. The primary function of a web server is to deliver web pages to clients’ e. g. Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Sun Java System Web Server.

Define ANSI? 3 marks

This is the abbreviation of American National Standards Institute. This organization is responsible for approving U.S. standards in many areas, including computers and communications. Standards approved by this organization are often called ANSI standards (e.g., ANSI C is the version of the C language approved by ANSI).

How maps can be used in classrooms. Etc

To clear them, related their studies,

Usage of audio aids in classroom 5 marks · o Audio Aids · o Radio · o Tape recorder · o Public Address System · Demerits of project aids

What is Hard disk drive?

Differentiate b/w internal and external HDD · Internal: RAM & ROM · External: USB, floppy, memory card & CD