BINC Information Technology Syllabus – Basic
Concepts in Computing
Overview and functions of a computer system
Input and output devices
Storage devices: Hard Disk, Diskette, Magnetic Tape, RAID, ZIP devices, Digital Tape, CD-ROM, DVD, etc (capacity and access time)
Main Circuit Board of a PC: Chips, Ports, Expansion slots, etc
Memory: Register, buffer, RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM (comparison)
Types of Processing: Batch, Real-Time, Online, Offline
History of Computers: Evolution, Generation of computers (I, II, III, IV, V), Classification of computers (mainframes, mini computers, microcomputers, special purpose) – comparison with memory, power, cost, size – then and now
Types of modern computing: Workstations, Servers
An overview of computer viruses: What is a virus? Virus symptoms, How do they get transmitted? What are the dangers, General Precautions?
Introduction to operating systems: Operating System concept, Windows 2003/XP, Windows Vista, UNIX/LINUX
The Internet and its Resources, World Wide Web (WWW): Associated tools, services, resources and various terminologies
Programming in C
Introduction to Database Systems
Concepts of various types of databases
Data Abstraction
Data Models
Instances and Schemes
E-R Model: Entity and entity sets; Relations and relationship sets; E-R diagrams; Reducing E-R Diagrams to tables
Network Data Model: Basic concepts
Hierarchical Data Model: Basic Concepts
Text Databases
Multimedia Databases – Basic Concepts and Applications; Indexing and Hashing
Bio-Informatics National Certification (BINC) 2010 Syllabus