B.Sc - Alagappa University

ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY, KARAIKUDI
NEW SYLLABUS UNDER CBCS PATTERN (w.e.f.2014-15)
B.Sc., INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
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I YEAR - I SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 4BIT1C1 CORE COURSE I - PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND OS Unit I
An overview of Revolution in computers and communications: From the analog
to the digital age: The "New Story" of computers and communications - The
six elements of a computer and communication system - Communication:
Development in Computer Technology, Developments in communication
technology - Computer and communications Technology combined: Connectivity
and interactivity The Ethics of information technology. Storage and Databases: Foundations for interactivity, Multimedia and
knowledge Storage Capacity- Compression and Decompression - Criteria for
rating Secondary Storage Devices- Diskettes - Hard Disks - Optical Disks -
Magnetic Tapes - Organizing Data in Secondary storage: Databases, Data
Storage - Hierarchy and concept of the key field - File management: Basic
Concepts - File Management systems - Data management systems - Types of
database organization. Unit II
Application software: Tools for thinking and working - Ethics and
intellectual property Rights: The four types of application software - The
user interface and other basic user features - Word Processing -
Spreadsheets - Database Software - Presentation Graphics Software -
Communications Software - Desktop accessories and personal information
managers integrated software and studies - Groupware - Internet WEB
browsers - Specialized Software. Unit III
Communications: Stating along with the information highway: The Practical
uses of communications and connectivity - Telephone related communication
services - Video/Voice communication: Video conferencing and picture phones
- online information services - The internet - Shared Resources: Workgroup
Computing, Electronic Data Interchange and intranets: Telecomputing and
virtual offices - Using a microcomputer to communicate: Analog and Digital
Signals - Modems and Datacomm Software, ISDN Lines and Cable Modems -
Communications Channels: communications networks - Local Networks Unit IV
Introduction: Operating System - Batch System - Time Sharing - Personal
Computer System- Parallel Systems - Real Time Systems - Distributed Systems
- Computer System Operation - I/O Structure -- Hardware Protection -
General System Architecture - System Components Operating System Services -
System calls - System programs - System structure - Virtual machines. Unit V
Process Management: Process Concept - Process scheduling - operations on
processes - cooperating processes - Inter process communication - Threads
overview - benefits - user and kernel threads - Multithreading models - CPU
scheduling concepts - Scheduling criteria- Scheduling Algorithms.
Text Books 1. Stacey C Sawyer, Brain K Williams, Sarah E Hutchinson Using
Information Technology - Brief Version A Practical Introduction to
Computer and Communications Second Edition, The McGraw Hill Companies
Unit I to III.
2. A Silberschatz Peter Galvin and Greg Gagne, "Applied Operating System
Concepts", John Wiley & Sons, 2000 Unit IV & V.
Reference Books 1. James O'Brien - Introduction to Information systems.
2. James L. Peterson and Abraham Silberschatz, Operating System Concepts
Addison Wesley
3. Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Operating System Design and Implementation, PHI
4. Harvey M. Deitel, An introduction to Operating System, Addison Wesley. ..........
I YEAR - I SEMESTER
COURSE CODE: 4BIT1P1 CORE COURSE II: OPERATING SYSTEM LAB
DOS Lab Background: All computer and network technicians should know some of the
basic commands and functions available from the command line in Windows.
Microsoft's Disk Operating System (DOS), also called MS-DOS, is a
collection of programs and commands used to control the overall computer
operation in a disk-based system. All modern Windows versions support DOS
commands from the command line. DOS allows you to even edit the command
line and change the way it behaves Exercises: > customize the command line
> use DOS commands to view, navigate, create and delete directories
> use DOS commands to copy, move, rename, delete files and change
attributes
Windows lab Writing Manifests for Windows 1. File Paths on Windows
1. Forward Slashes vs. Backslashes
2. Using Backslashes in Double-Quoted Strings
3. Using Backslashes in Single-Quoted Strings
2. Notable Windows Facts
1. Identifying Facts
2. Windows-Specific Facts
3. Line Endings in Windows Text Files
4. Core Resource Types
1. file
2. user
3. group
4. scheduled_task
5. package
6. service
7. exec
8. host
5. Plugin Resource Types UNIX Commands
1. Which filename is not valid for UNIX? -Why? How can you create an
"empty" file?
a. firstfile.txt
b. FIRSTFILE.TXT
c. first file
d. first/file
e. first!file
2. Create a file year2009 that will contain a calendar from January -
December for year 2009. (Use only one command) 3. Change the permissions for your file year2009 so that anyone can copy
your file to their home directory; -but without giving them the option of
changing your original file. 4. What UNIX command(s) could you use to view the contents of your file
year2009? 5. How could you list all the files in /bin beginning with the letters g,
h, and p?
(Using only one command) 6. How could you list all files whose names begin with the letter g, -have
any three characters following the g, -and end with "tly.txt". (Without
the quotes)? (Using only one command) 7. Which of the following filenames are matched by: [A-G]*ing.?txt ?
1. Gagging.test
2. Bing.xt
3. Aging.ntxt
4. Ing.ext
5. Going.txt 8. What is contained in the file thisfile after executing the following
UNIX command?
$ cat /etc/passwd > thisfile (be specific in your
description) 9. Which UNIX command will perform a sort on your home directory by the
size of the files? 10. Which UNIX command would you use to verify that the contents of
/etc/passwd and your file thisfile are exactly the same? 11. Using redirection from a file, display the contents of /etc/passwd on
the screen. 12. Using cat, redirect from /etc/group to thisfile. Then display
thisfile. 13. Which UNIX command will show how many words are in your system's
/etc/passwd file? 14. Display