NTA UGC NET 2019 General paper one full free notes for Information and Communication Technology

Unit VIII - Information and Communication Technology(ICT)

General Abbreviations:

• CPU - Central Processing Unit
• OS - Operating System
• CU - Control Unit
• ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
• RAM - Random Access Memory
• ROM - Read Only Memory
• CD-Rom - Compact Disk Read Only Memory
• PROM - Programmable Read Only Memory
• EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
• EEPROM - Electronically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
• HDD - Hard Disk Drives
• RTOS - Real Time Operating System
• NOS - Network Operating System
• DOS - Distributed Operating System/Disk Operating System
• GUI - Graphical User Interface
• JPEG/JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
• MPEG - Moving Pictures Experts Group
• PNG - Portable Network Graphics
• BMP - Bitmap
• GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
• TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
• OMR - Optical Mark Recognition
• OCR - Optical Character Reader
• MICR - Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
• CRT - Cathode Ray Tube 
• LCD - Liquid Crystal Displays
• LED - Light Emitting Diodes
• TFT LCD - Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display
• CAD - Computer Aided Design
• CAM - Computer Aided Manufacturing
• CAI - Computer Assisted Intruction
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
• USB - Universal Serial Bus
• SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
• ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
• IP - Internet Protocol
• TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
• NCP - National Control Protocol
• HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
• FTP - File Transfer Protocol
• SLIP - Serial Line Internet Protocol
• DNS - Domain Name System
• DSU - Digital Services Unit
• WWW - World Wide Web
• URL - Uniform Resources Locator
• ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
• ISP - Internet Service Provider
• PAN - Personal Area Network
• LAN - Local Area Network
• MAN - Metropolitan Area Network
• WAN - Wide Area Network
• E-mail - Electronic Mail
• CC - Carbon Copy
• BCC - Black Carbon Copy
• DVD - Digital Versatile Disk
• POP - Point of Presence
• ISO - Internet Standards Organization
• NMEICT - National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology [Project undertaken by the Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD), Government of India]
• EduSAT - Education Satellite