Information technology important definitions

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Information Technology ek esa subject hai jo hm sbse km pdte hain aur hmara result b isi subject ki vjah se khrab hota hai.....So this thread is purely dedicated to Information technology subject....

I will post here all the important definitions time to time which will help you to score at least 1 mark questions in exam...further i will also cover important aspects of this subjects ..nw starting from the important definitions.

these definitions will be coded in series as ITD 1, 2, 3....ITD means Information Technology Definition

So friends..please co-operate ...and if you have any suggestion in this regard then please be free to share.

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ITD 1 

Access Time : The time required to retrieve data from secondary storage and move them to primary memory.

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ITD 2

Accumulator 

It is a register which holds the result of arithmetic or logical operations at various stages and transfers it back to main storage.

ITD 3 

Acoustic Coupler : Large suckers or ears used to change

digital to analog or voice signals transmitted through

telephone system and back at the receiving end from

analog to digital signal. These are battery operated and

can be used for communication links and e-mail.

ITD 4

Active Server Page :

It is a standard HTML document that can be viewed by the user using a web browser.

Thanx a lot brother

 

ITD 5

 

Address :

 

A single primary storage location in the processor unit is identified

by a built in and unique number called an address.

 

ITD 6

 

Algorithmic Language :

 

comprises of arithmetic expressions called assignments statements and non computational instructions called declarations. The sequence of statements and declarations with "begin" and "end" constitutes ALGOL programs, which are popular in Europe.

ITD 7 

American Standard Code for Information Interchange : Standard Code to represent upper and lower case of alphabets, punctuation, numerals and various symbols used to design screens using seven bits.

ITD 8 

 

Analog Transmission :

 

Analog signal is like spoken words; it is continuous and carried by changing wavelength (pitch) and amplitude (loudness). It can be transmitted directly or encoded into digital bits (i.e. 0 and 1); similarly digital information can be transmitted directly or modulated into analog form.

ITD 9 

 

Antivirus Program :

 

Software which guards the software and data stored in a system from destructive programs or corrupt floppy disks.

ITD 10 
 


Application Program :

 

A set of instructions that contain the logic of an application. It should be differentiated from a supervisory program, which controls the operations of the computer.

ITD 11 

 

Application Package :

 

Generalised way of writing a package, which can be used for multiple purposes and easy for handling by the end-user. it is generally user friendly.

 

 

 

 

 

ITD 12

 

Archieve :

 

To store files in backup system which can be retrieved at a later stage.


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