Syllabus
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Course Code: DSE-EEM-501 (ELECTIVE-I) Course Name: Computer Hardware & Maintenance-I |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Personal Computer: Evolution PC through Pentium; specifications of differentstyles of PCs,Functional Block diagram, System Unit and its various parts, Introduction to peripheral parts, Input/Outputports (serial port, parallelport, game port, USBport).Motherboard (MB), motherboard Layouts with specifications, motherboard items, SMPSand linear power supply (Brief Idea and comparison). | |
| 2 | Basic Input/output System (BIOS): services, features and functional parts of BIOS, Bus Standards:
BUS Architecture with basic specifications (XT, ISA, EISA, MCA, VL, PCI) On Board Memory & Magnetic Media: PC Memory Organization, Types of RAM, MemoryPackages, Magnetic Storage (Fundamentals, Diskette basics, FDDTypes and capacity, HDD, FDD &HDD sub-assemblies, HDD controller & interface types) Disk organization inDOS. |
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| 3 | Input Devices:Keyboard (basics, operation, types, functions, signals, interfacelogic); Mouse (principle
of operation, types, signals);Scanner (principle of operation, types). Output Devices: VDU (Video basics, types of display adaptors, Basic mechanism of CRT Controller); Printer (printing mechanism, types: DMP, Inkjet, Laser Printer, MFP, Data transfer b/w PC & Printe |
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| 4 | CD-ROM Drive: Principle of operation, merits and demerits, CD/DVD Diskette construction and R/W
mechanism, Comparison of CD andDVD, Caring for CD and DVD discs, front and rearview details of
CD/DVD drives. Computer Communication: Modem basics and principle of operation, Internet and itsfeatures. Software Concepts: System software, application software, operating systems, MSDOS and Windows (Introduction and differences). |
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