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Homework No. 1
DoA: 10-02-10
DoS: 24-02-10
Submitted to:
Ms kuljeet kaur
Submitted by:
Tarun Baveja
MCA(hons)
Roll No 28
Reg No 10807675
Part A
Q1:->How can information technology support a
company’sbusiness processes and decision
making and give it a competitive advantage?
Give examples to illustrate your answer.
Sol Information technology (IT) refers to the management
and use of information using computer-based tools. It includes
acquiring, processing, storing, and distributing information.
Most commonly it is a term used to refer to business
applications of computer technology, rather than scientific
applications. The term is used broadly in business to refer to
anything that ties into the use of computers.
Mainframe computer:
Part B
Output technologies
Video Output: Video displays are the most common type of
computer output. Many desktop computers still rely on video
monitors that use a cathode ray tube(CRT) technology similar
to the picture tubes used in home television sets.
The another video output technology is liquid crystal displays
has been to provide a visual display capability for portable
microcomputers and PDAs.
Storage technologies:
Primary storage
1. Magnetic storage:
Q5:-> What trends are occuring in the
development and use of the major types of
computer systems?
Sol
Computer systems are acting like one of us and working with
us like any other human working along us. Computer System
these days are very much faster, reliable and safer rather than
the past.. Many trends are occurring in Computer System like
at first the computers were very stiff to maintain but now-a-
days software’s have made it very simple to sustain computers.
We can call them smarter or intelligent. Also people of today’s
world like to use that computer whose execution time is fast,
having lesser faults or crashes etc.
The major trends or changes taking place in Computer System
are:
(b)Presentation Graphics:
Presentation graphics are used to convert numeric data into
graphics displays such as line charts, bar graphs, pie charts,
and many other types of graphics. Most of the top packages
also help you prepare multimedia presentations of graphics,
photos, animation, and video clips, including publishing to the
World Wide Web
(d)RAID
• RAID-0
• RAID-1:
• RAID-2RAID-3
• RAID-4
• RAID-5
• RAID-6
• RAID-7
• RAID-10
(e) Application service providers
ASP’S provide the software’s at lower cost and take short time.
(f)Programming languages: