Northern India Engineering College, Shastri Park, New Delhi
Department of Information Technology
Assignment 1: Fundamentals of Computing
Code ETCS – 111
Marks: 05
Course Facilitator: Ms. NISHA SINGH,Assistant Professor-IT
Note: i) Last date of submission: 25/08/2015.
ii) Only hand written assignment will be accepted.
iii) No assignment will be accepted after due date.
QUES 1. Explain different generations of computer along with advantages
& disadvantages.
QUES 2. Explain computer system architecture.
QUES 3. Why do we need secondary storage?
QUES 4. Expand ENIAC, UNIVAC, ASCII, LISP, COBOL and BIOS.
QUES 5. Describe GUI and non-GUI based systems.
QUES 6. Why accessing of data in magnetic tape is slower than hard disk?
QUES 7. Differentiate among compiler, assembler and interpreter with
suitable examples.
QUES 8. Write short notes on the following: a) Hard Disk
b) Magnetic Disk
b) Cache Memory
d) Optical Disks