Basic Concepts of Information Technology (IT)
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Mention and explain 5 advantages of E-mail.
Explain 5 advantages and 5 disadvantages of E-Commerce.
What is a virus? Explain how can protect our computer from virus (5 reasons)?
Why do you need to backup your computer?
Mention 5 types of antivirus.
Mention 5 types of virus.
Explain the term Copyright in Basic Concepts of IT.
Explain the term Licence Agreement. Mention and explain the 3 types of Licences
Agreement.
Mention and describe two common health problems which can be associated when using a
computer.
Mention and describe two common safety problems which can be associated when using a
computer.
Mention and describe two common environmental problems which can be associated when
using a computer.
Explain the term Hardware. Mention 4 examples.
What do PC, USB, CRT, LCD and PDA stand for?
Mention and explain 4 factors that affect the computer performance.
What do ROM and RAM stand for? Explain these 2 terms.
What is input and output Devices? Mention 2 examples of each device.
Mention 2 examples of devices which are both input and output.
Which devices can we plug in the following ports? Provide one example for each one of
these devices.
a. Serial Port
b. Parallel Port
c. USB Port
d. Network Port
Explain the term Software. Mention 4 examples of Software Programs.
Mention 4 examples of Operating Systems. What is the difference between Operating
Systems and MS-DOS?
Measurement of storage capacity (KB, MB, GB, TB).
Mention 3 examples of storage devices (compare storage devices).
Mention 5 types of Printers.
Explain the term Network. Mention and explain three types of Networks.
What does WWW stand for? Explain the difference between WWW vs. the Internet.
What is the difference between Intranet and Extranet?