INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY

CENTRE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING

GHAZIABAD

Subject Code : CAM

Subject Title : Computer Aided Management

Time allowed : 180 minutes

Maximum : 50 marks

Instructions: (a) Answer any four questions choosing from Section-A and each question carries 9 marks.
(b)

Section-B (Case Study) is compulsory and case study carries 14 marks.

No doubts/clarifications shall be entertained. In case of doubts/clarifications make reasonable assumptions and
proceed.

SECTION-A (Answer any four questions from this section)

1. a) Define Computer system. How do you classify the computers into various categories?
b) Express the given number in other indicated numbers system :
(23)10 = ( ? )2 = ( ? )16
2. What are the various parts of the central processing unit and explain how does it functions.
3. What are the various categories of monitors? What are the criteria of comparing various types of monitors?
4. Windows (XP/2000) Professional is the most manageable, reliable, with improved hardware support and
increased software compatibility Operating System. How would you perform the following tasks in Windows
(XP/2000) Professional?
(a) Restore deleted file and folders
(b) Change your computer name
(c) Create a bootable diskette
5. A table is made up of rows and columns of cells that you can fill with text and graphics. Tables are often
used to organize and present information. How can the following tasks be performed in MS Word Tables?
(a) Perform calculation in a table.
(b) Referencing cells in a table.
(c) Merge Table cells.
6. Explain the needs of various functions in a spread sheet package and illustrate with suitable examples.
7. What is a Title master? How does it help to provide consistency in your presentations? What are the other
features of MS PowerPoint that provide consistency in your presentation?

SECTION-B (Case Study is compulsory)

From Teaching to Learning
Education is an intervention to aid a child (or an adult) in discovering his or her place in the world, to evolve
the best fit between his/her self and the world, faster and better than he/she could attain from direct
experiences. You can work hard to secure all kinds of degrees, but these will be of limited benefit if they are not
able to help you carve out the desired place for your self in the social and economic structures of society. We
human beings are uniquely endowed with the ability to learn from communicated experiences of others as also
from our direct experiences (which together form spontaneous or informal education). Many of us get, in
addition, the facility of organized systems of learning (formal education). Both of theses are equally important
influences in shaping an individual. Formal education should, in fact, have the purpose of strengthening
appropriate social norms in individuals, and of putting the informal education one receives in the perspective of
distilled experience of the ages. There should always be enough room within the range of social options for a
learning person to find and accumulate knowledge in her/his own way. To be effective, the two accumulation
of direct/communicated experience and formal education- should bear a symbiotic relationship with each other.
They must reinforce each other.
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What then should be the goal of our educational system? Precisely and simply, to use formal education in
schools to shape and reinforce informal education. That is the only way children really learn and grow enabled
by their knowledge. They should later move to higher, speciality based education on the basis of aptitude and
choice. Another important consideration, especially for a poorer country like ours, is to straightway focus on
vocational education and economically useful skills. Vocational education is best imparted in the context of
immediate personal inclinations/capabilities and workforce requirements. We also have to greatly strengthen
distance learning and continued education. These are, on one hand, great supplement to formal education
structures, and on the other, they afford equal opportunity to those who for various reasons can not avail of
formal structures. Altogether, we need to refocus educational processes and resource to hone the native
competencies of individuals and provide them meaningful social and economic enablement. Then alone
education can be said to deliver its real purpose-to give us freedom. It gives us freedom of choice about our
lives and careers.
But how do our children get education today? Their world in school may have little relation to what they get
to see around them; they have to be made to learn by using external inducements of success, or simply of
physical pain and comfort. They are introduced to certain set of information clubbed together into subjects. They
are not therefore learning about things that necessarily have any association with the world they experience;
they are learning about subjects often without the conforming the objects to identify with. They then emerge as
good, average or bad at these subjects. The problem is that educational products today are mass produced.
This induces standardization, and squeezes out the individual and immediate community context from
education.
A child responds best to a learning process that is built around the things of interest in his or her
environment. Access to networked resources on the Internet allows the unlimited information available to be
data-mined and collated to a specific, chosen context. The interest of a child from a farming community, for
example, can easily be fixed over the wriggly worms that emerged out of the soil in the fields whenever it rains.
He will be excited to know that these creatures do not spoil anything for the farmer, but are actually his friends.
They help aerate the soil and increase its water holding capacity. He will not have to be persuaded to explore
the Internet resources on the concepts of aeration and water holding capacity of the topsoil. He can then be
taken to the issue of loss of fertility of soil exposed to rapid drainage, something he can actually go and see in
the fields. The role of the forest in holding soil and preventing loss of soil arability would then be easy for him to
comprehend. A child from fishing community, on the other hand, will be more tuned in to ecological issues
relating to the beaches. She might like to know how underground seawater ingress works on soil and what kind
of practices promote it. You have the two sets of students who are environmentally very aware but have learned
through very different routes.
The use of new technologies in education should focus on enabling the students to become co-creators of
their learning environment along with teachers and parents. It is time that we become more open to
experimenting with giving our children a bigger say in their own learning. We hope we all now better appreciate
that children live in world of their own, which is not entirely accessible to adults, even to professional educators.
Children listen and relate to their peers as to no one else. The new education system will have a large
component of peer-to-peer communication based learning. It will make possible the creation of a learning
environment suited to a particular child in the context of his/her situation, inclination, culture and ecology. It will
take off from the question that automatically forms in their young minds. And the child would, at least partially,
dictate the process himself or herself.
The technology now allows for providing training anytime, anywhere, to allow people to go through it at their
own pace, to skip the section that are not relevant to them and to repeat the sections if they need to. The use of
technology for delivering information and facilitating the development of skills and knowledge is revolutionising
learning. Distance or online differs from the classroom based training process as it offers just-in-time training
and allows the users to learn at their own pace. The online education market is booming the world over and
currently considered a hotly growing sector. There are indications that online education will follow an upward
moving graph and more organisations will follow this mode of training.
Questions
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Education as delivered today has lost sight of its intended purpose. Discuss in view of the situation given
in the case.
What are the disadvantages of standardizing mass production method of educational system? What
should be the goal of our educational system?
How does Internet make education an appropriate economic enabler for every one as per his/her
inclination and the communitys current workforce needs?
What resources are needed on your computer to receive education using Internet?
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