Diploma Course in Computer Applications (Part Time)

The Guru Nanak Dev University's Faculty of Engineering and Technology offers Diploma Course in Computer Applications (Part Time) to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

Information Technology and Operating System
PC Computing-I
Database Management System
PC Computing-II

Information Concepts and Processing
Evolution of Information Processing
Data Information Language
Communication and Network
Client Server Systems
Computer Networks
LAN & WAN

Internet
Understanding the Internet
E-mail Basics
Browsing the Web
Finding Stuff on the Web and Net

Elements of a Computer Processing System
Hardware - CPU
Storage Devices and Media
VDU
Input--Output

Data Communication Equipment
Software-System Software, Application Software
Programming Languages
Classification
Machine Code
Assembly Language
Higher Level Languages
Fourth Generation languages

Operating System
What is Operating System-Evolution of OS
Types of Operating System
A) Single User Systems : MS DOS
B) Multi User Systems : Unix, XENIX, VAX/VMS
Brief History of MS-DOS

Terminology of MS-DOS
a) File
b) Types of File (Data, Programme)
c) Wild Cards (*.?)
d) Directory (Root, Single, Multi, Current)
e) Relative and Absolute Path
f) Booting a System (ROM BIOS self test, Port, IO, SYS,

MSBIOS, SYS, Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, Command.com)
Internal and External Commands with Syntax.
a) Internal : cls, date, time, md, cd, copy con, dir, type, ren, delete,
rd, copy
b) External : chkdsk, scandisk, mem, attrib, xcopy, diskcopy,
diskcomp, backup, restore