NOTES FOR UNIT 3 – BASIC ICT SKILLS –I

GRADE : IX
EXERCISES
A. Multiple choice questions.
1. (c) Both
2. (c) Email system
3. (c) make and receive calls
4. (a) messaging services
5. (a) Primary memory
6. (b) hardware
7. (a) hardware
8. (b) Software
9. (a) printer
10. (a) Light pen
B. Short Answer questions (I)
1. Give any four reasons for using ICT in daily life.
Ans: 1. Taking appointment with doctor online(through practo.com)
2. Gaining knowledge from websites like Wikipedia.com, Slashdot.org or
new websites.
3. Paying your credit card bills online
4. Book train and flight tickets online.
2. Describe what kind of machine a tab is.
Ans: A tab is a short form for a computer tablet. It is almost always bigger
than a mobile phone and has all features of a computer.
3. What is the difference between hardware and software, in terms of
physical existence?
Ans: All the tangible parts of the computer system are parts of the hardware.
Software is a more complex entity to describe though. This does not have
a physical existence, like the hardware devices do.
4. Describe what a printer is.
Ans: This is a very important output device. If you want the hard copy of a
certain document, you have to look to the printer to provide you with
that. Dot matrix, thermal, daisy wheel, laser and inkjet printers are some
type of printers.
5. What kind of OS is a multiprocessing OS?
Ans: Multiprocessing: Multiprocessing occurs when a computer system with
two or more processors can run more than one program, or thread, at a
given time by assigning them to different processors.
6. In MS-Word, with what key do you end the line?
Ans: Enter: marked with the word Enter. You use this key to end a
paragraph of text.
C. Short answer questions (II)
1. What is the browser used on the computer for?
Ans: Internet browser or internet Application software or browser is an
important software for connection to the internet. The interface of most
browsers is simple enough. You type in the address of the web page(URL)
into the address bar.
2. Give any three common properties of the browsers.
Ans: There are the common properties of the browsers.
1. History feature to access what web pages have been visited in the past.
2. Bookmark pages to access some specific pages later easily.
3. Stop, refresh buttons to stop loading and revisit a web page.
3. What is twitter used for?
Ans: Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users
post and interact with messages known as “tweets”.
4. Which company had acquired WhatApp and for how much?
Ans: Acquired by facebook in February 2014 for approximately US $ 19.3
billion.
5. What are some signs that Internet is gaining a foot hold in India too?
Ans: Just as computer technology is advancing, so is its footprint in India.
PAN cards , adhar cards and linking of aadhaar cares to bank accounts,
mobile numbers and pan cards is being mandated by the government.
D. Long Answer Questions.
1. Describe the features of Facebook. What is its purpose?
Ans: This is social networking website developed by Harvard students Mark
Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes, Dustin Moskovitz and
Andrew McCollum. It is a social networking website. People can add each
other as “Friends”, “Unfriend” from groups, post updates, comment on
update posts, reply to comments, use applications to share interesting
pictures and videos, etc.
The Facebook website has made its founders billionaires at a young age.
Facebook has more than 2.2 billion monthly active users as of January
2018. Its popularity has led to prominent media coverage for the
company, including significant scrutiny over privacy and the
psychological effects it has on users.
2. Describe email services.
Ans: Email stands for electronic mail. It is possible to drop email right into a
person’s inbox available online or on the computer. Some email applications
are Microsoft Outlook, Eudora and Mozilla Thunderbird.
The place where the mail keeps itself is known as the inbox. You can
receive emails and also send emails. To send emails you need the email
ID of the entity that you are sending the email to. After usage of the email
account, you are supposed to log out (or sign out) of the email account.
3. What is YouTube all about?
Ans: Youtube is an online video sharing service which has now been
acquired by Google. You can search for videos on Youtube and virtually
every important video or songs video can be found on Youtube. You can
 create user ID and password to upload videos onto the website. These
videos can be seen by others.
You need to subscribe to some channels to have access to such videos.
Youtube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report,
comment on videos and subscribe to other users. IT offers a wide variety
of user-generated and corporate media videos. Youtube earns advertising
revenue from Google AdSense, a program which targets ads according to
site content and audience.
4. Describe the subsystems of the computer.
Ans: Input devices are those hardware devices that take input from the
external world. There are quite a few input devices for a computer these
days. some of them are mouse, keyboard, joystick, scanner, light pen and
touchscreen. All of these input devices are connected to the system cabinet
that takes the input and processes the input data.
Storage devices are the ones that store the information. Wherever you save
something on a drive on the computer, it gets saved in the hard disk. If you
attach or insert other devices, then they would also show up on the computer
system as an additional device added.
Output devices are hardware of the computer that produce output to be
consumed by the external world. These are very important as the purpose of
having a computer will be defeated if no output is produced by the
computer. Some of the well known output devices are monitor, printer
speaker.