General Paper 1: ICT

 Information and Communication Technology

Telephone model of communication was first developed in the area of Information Theory

Acronym FTP stands for - File Transfer Protocol

Complier is software which converts high level language to machine language

Informal communication – known as Grapevine

Encoding data for transmission across a network is known as: Encryption

Prasar Bharti Launched in 1997

Press council of India located in Delhi

DTH started in 2006

Virtual Memory an illusion of extremely large main memory

Programming language – PASCAL, BASIC, COBOL

TRP – Television Rating Point

SITE – Satellite Instructional Television Experiment

TCP – Transmission Control Protocol

SQL – Structured Query Language

HTML – Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML language is basically used to design Web-page

ISP – Internet Service Provider

IP – Internet Protocol – numerical address

PDIAL – Public Dial up Internet Access List

SLIP – Serial Line Internet Protocol

PPP – Point to Point Protocol

The aspect ratio of TV Screen is 4:3

Random Access Memory (RAM) is main memory in computer

1 bit = a 1 or 0 (b)
4 bits = 1 nybble (?)
8 bits = 1 byte (B)

1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte (KB
1024 Kilobytes = 1 Megabyte (MB)
1024 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte (GB)
1024 Gigabytes = 1 Terabyte (TB)

One Kilobyte = One Thousand Byte

One Mega Byte = One Million Byte

One Giga Byte = One Billion Bytes

One Terabyte = One Trillion Bytes.