Unit – III (Basic ICT Skills)

Questions and Answers

1. Objectives of Information and communication technology? Advantages and
disadvantages of ICT.

Answer – Full form of ICT is Information and communication technology. The goal of ICT is to
bridge the gap between parents, educators, and students by encouraging sustainable,
cooperative, and transparent communication methods.

Advantages of ICT:

• Enhanced the modes of communication

• Independent learning platforms Cost – efficient
• Enhanced data and information security
• Paperless – Eliminate the usage of paper
• Better teaching and learning methods
• Web – based LMS tools

Disadvantages of ICT:
• Traditional book and handwritten methods are at risk.
• Managing courses online is difficult
• Teachers require experience to handle ICT
• Risk of cyber-attacks and hacks
• Misuse of technology
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2. What are the default apps installed on smartphones?

Answer – Some of the default apps installed on smartphones are

• Camera
• Phone
• Calendar
• Mail
• Maps
• Clock
• Message
• Web Browser
• Music
• Google Play store
• Apple Store

3. Differentiate between smartphone vs. tablet.

Answer – Smartphone – Smartphones are just like a phone with some additional features,
Smartphones are compact and easy to use. Operating systems are the main software. Some
of the smartphones use Apple iOS, some are using Android OS or some are using Microsoft
OS. editing the videos or photos is difficult on the smartphone.

Tablet – It is a portable personal computer with a touchscreen interface which makes it

more user friendly than the notebook computer. Android OS, Apple iOS or Windows OS are
the most common operating systems used in the tablet. As compared to smartphones,
tablet screens are bigger in size.

4. What are the features of mobile devices?

Answer – Some of the features present in mobile devices are:

• Bluetooth: Bluetooth is a wireless technology which connects with other Bluetooth

devices within 30 feet, you can send photos, songs or video with the help of the
Bluetooth.

• Chargeable Battery: This is a portable power bank which can be recharged. if once
the battery is charged you can use this device anywhere.

• Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi stands for Wireless Fidelity, basically it is a wireless network technology
that connects your device to the internet or you can connect to the local area
network also.

• Touch Screen: Touch Screen is an interface where you can manage your device.
Whatever information you want to type in the device you can type using the touch
screen.

• Cellular network connectivity: Cellular network connectivity provides the network

through which you can make calls.

• Global Positioning System: It is a navigation system which helps you to find the
direction of place using a map.

5. What is the purpose of gestures in mobile devices?

Answer – Gestures help users to interact with the touchscreen. for example if you want to
open an app instead of clicking you just touch the app the application will be open.

Some of the gestures in mobile phone are

• Tap and hold: Tap and hold is similar to right-clicking on a computer.

• Swipe: Swipe the finger to right, left, up or down on the screen, automatically the
page will move to the next page.

• Tap: Touch the screen with your finger, once, to click.

 • Double tap: Tap the screen twice time quickly the screen will zoom, it is used to
making the word appear bigger.

• Drag: To tap, hold and move your finger across the screen.

• Pinch: To bring your thumb and finger together on the screen automatically the
screen will be zoomed in. it is used to making the word appear smaller.

6. What is the basic function of a Computer?

Answer – A computer is an electronic device which can accept data from the user, process
the data and generate meaningful results. Computer have three main units –

1. Input Unit,

2. Central Processing Unit (CPU) and

3. Output Unit.

7. What are the different parts of the CPU?

Answer – A computer is made up of multiple parts that work together to perform the
processing and effective functioning of the computer. The CPU performs all the basic
arithmetic and logical operations of the computer.

There are three main components of a CPU (Central Processing Unit)

Portable personal computer

1. Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)

2. Control Unit (CU)

3. Memory Unit (MU)

• Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU) – Arithmetic and logical unit performs all arithmetic
and logical operations. for example subtraction, addition, division and multiplication.

• Control Unit (CU) – Control Unit instructs the computer system to perform a
particular task. It takes instructions from memory and executes them.

• Memory Unit (MU) – Memory Unit used to store data or instructions. there are two
type of memory unit

• Primary Memory – Primary memory is also known as main memory. This

memory is directly accessed by the microprocessor. Primary memory have
two type RAM and ROM

• RAM – RAM stands for Random access memory it is short term

memory, RAM is also known as Volatile memory and it stores data
temporarily.
 • ROM – ROM stands for Read only memory it is long term memory,
ROM stores the data permanently.

• Secondary Memory – The device which is used to store data permanently

with the help of external devices is known as Secondary memory. Example –
Hard Disk, Flash drive, External drive etc.

8. What is Motherboard?

Answer – A motherboard provides connectivity between the hardware components of

a computer. It is also the backbone of the computer and shares the information between
them. It is a main circuit board inside a computer that connects input, processing and output
devices.

9. How is the data measured in the computer?

Answer – In the memory devices data is stored in the form of bits and bytes. Bit is the
smallest unit which represents 0 or 1. combination of eight bits make a one byte. which
store the numerical, letters or symbols value in the memory.

• 8 Bits = 01 Byte

• 1024 Bytes = 01 Kilobyte (KB)

• 1024 Kilobyte (KB) = 01 Megabyte (MB)

• 1024 Megabyte (MB) = 01 Gigabyte (GB)

• 1024 Gigabyte (GB) = 01 Terabyte (TB)

10. Where are the different ports in the computer system?

Answer – A port is a physical docking point using which an external device can be connected
to the computer. We can connect our keyboard, mouse, printer and scanner through the
port

There are several types of ports that you can use to connect a computer to external
devices.

• Universal serial bus or the USB port – USB port is used to transfer data, It also works
as an interface for peripheral devices. It connects, such as a mouse or a keyboard or a
printer to a computer using the cable.

• Display port – Separate video connector is used for transmitting only video signals.
Display port connect the monitor to the display unit. Different types of video
connector are available, like High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and Video
Graphics Array depending on the requirement.
• Audio ports – Audio ports are used to connect speakers or other audio devices with
the computer. like headphones, speakers or microphone. headphones and speaker
port is known as line out port and microphone port is known as line in port.

• Ethernet – Ethernet port is used for connecting computers to the network, with the
ethernet port we can transfer data from one computer to another or we can transfer
high speed internet.

• Power port – Power port is used for connecting the computer system to the power
supply.