O Level Syllabus: Paper (1) IT Tools & Basics of Networks
O Level Syllabus: Paper (1) IT Tools & Basics of Networks
Computer and Latest IT gadgets, Evolution of Computers & its applications, ITgadgets and their applications,
Basics of Hardware and Software, Central Processing Unit, Input devices, Output devices, Computer Memory &
storage, Application Software, Systems Software, Utility Software, Open source and Proprietary Software, Mobile
Apps.
Operating System, Basics of Operating system, Operating Systems for Desktop and Laptop, Operating Systems for
Mobile Phone and Tablets, User Interface for Desktop and Laptop, Task Bar, Icons & shortcuts, Running an
Application, Operating System Simple Setting, Using Mouse and Changing its Properties, Changing System Date
and Time, Changing Display Properties, To Add or Remove Program and Features, Adding, Removing & Sharing
Printers, File and Folder Management, Types of file Extensions
Word Processing Basics, Opening Word Processing Package, Title Bar, Menu Bar, Toolbars & Sidebar, Creating a
New Document, Opening and Closing Documents, Opening Documents, Save and Save As, Closing Document,
Using The Help, Page Setup, Page Layout, Borders, Watermark, Print Preview, Printing of Documents, PDF file and
Saving a Document as PDF file, Text Creation and manipulation, Document Creation, Editing Text, Text Selection,
Cut, Copy and Paste, Font, Color, Style and Size selection, Alignment of Text, Undo & Redo, AutoCorrect, Spelling
& Grammar, Find and Replace, Formatting the Text, Creating and using user-defined Styles, Paragraph
Indentation, Bullets and Numbering, Change case, Header & Footer, Table Manipulation, Insert & Draw Table,
Changing cell width and height, Alignment of Text in cell, Delete / Insertion of Row, Column and Merging &
Splitting of Cells, Border and Shading, Mail Merge, Table of Contents, Indexes, Adding Comments, Tracking
changes
Elements of Spread Sheet, Creating of Spread Sheet, Concept of Cell Address [Row and Column] and selecting a
Cell, Entering Data [text, number, date] in Cells, Page Setup, Printing of Sheet, Saving Spreadsheet, Opening and
Closing, Manipulation of Cells & Sheet, Modifying / Editing Cell Content , Formatting Cell (Font, Alignment, Style
), Cut, Copy, Paste & Paste Special, Changing Cell Height and Width, Inserting and Deleting Rows, Column,
AutoFill, Sorting & Filtering, Freezing panes, Formulas, Functions and Charts, Using Formulas for Numbers
(Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division), AutoSum, Functions (Sum, Count, MAX, MIN,
AVERAGE),Sort, Filter, Advanced Filter, Database Functions ( DSUM, DMIN,DMAX, DCOUNT, DCOUNTA),
What-if Analysis, Pivot table Charts (Bar, Column, Pie, Line).
Unit: (v) Presentation
Creation of Presentation, Creating a Presentation Using a Template, Creating a Blank Presentation, Inserting &
Editing Text on Slides, Inserting and Deleting Slides in a Presentation, Saving a Presentation, Manipulating Slides,
Inserting Table, Adding ClipArt Pictures, Inserting Other Objects, Resizing and Scaling an Object, Creating & using
Master Slide, Presentation of Slides, Choosing a Set Up for Presentation, Running a Slide Show, Transition and
Slide Timings, Automating a Slide Show, Providing Aesthetics to Slides & Printing, Enhancing Text Presentation,
Working with Color and Line Style, Adding Movie and Sound, Adding Headers, Footers and Notes, Printing Slides
and Handouts.
Basic of Computer Networks, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Network Topology ,
Internet, Concept of Internet & WWW, Applications of Internet, Website Address and URL, Introduction to IP
Address, ISP and Role of ISP, Internet Protocol, Modes of Connecting Internet (HotSpot, Wifi, LAN Cable,
BroadBand, USB Tethering), Identifying and uses of IP/MAC/IMEI of various devices, Popular Web Browsers
(Internet Explorer/Edge, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc.), Exploring the Internet , Surfing the web, Popular
Search Engines, Searching on Internet, Downloading Web Pages, Printing Web Pages.
Structure of E-mail, Using E-mails, Opening Email account, Mailbox: Inboxand Outbox, Creating and Sending a
new E-mail, Replying to an E-mail message, Forwarding an E-mail message, Searching emails, Attaching files with
email, Email Signature, Social Networking & e-Commerce, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Instant
Messaging (Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram), Introduction to Blogs, Basics of E-commerce, Netiquettes,
Overview of e-Governance Services like Railway Reservation, Passport, eHospital [ORS], Accessing e-Governance
Services on Mobile Using “UMANG APP”, Digital Locker.
Digital Financial Tools, Understanding OTP [One Time Password]and QR [Quick Response] Code, UPI [Unified
Payment Interface], AEPS [Aadhaar Enabled Payment System], USSD[Unstructured Supplementary Service Data],
Card [Credit / Debit], eWallet, PoS [Point of Sale], Internet Banking, National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT),
Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS), Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), Online Bill Payment.
Introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Virtual Reality, Artificial
Intelligence, Social & Mobile, Blockchain Technology, 3D Printing/ Additive Manufacturing, Robotics Process
Automation, Cyber Security, Need of Cyber Security, Securing PC, Securing Smart Phone.
Introduction of Internet, WWW, What is Website? How the Website Works?, Web pages, Front End, Back End,
Client and Server Scripting Languages, Responsive Web Designing, Types of Websites (Static and Dynamic
Websites)
Notepad, Downloading free Editors: Notepad++, Sublime Text Editor, Making use of Editors, File creation and
editing, saving
HTML: Introduction, Basic Structure of HTML, Head Section and Elements of Head Section, Formatting Tags:
Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Div, Pre Tag Anchor links and Named Anchors ImageTag, Paragraphs,
Comments, Tables: Attributes –(Border, Cellpadding, Cellspacing, height , width), TR, TH, TD, Rowspan, Colspan
Lists: Ordered List, Unordered List , Definition List, Forms, Form Elements, Input types, Input Attributes, Text
Input Text Area, Dropdown, Radio buttons, Checkboxes, Submit and Reset Buttons
Frames: Frameset , nested Frames HTML 5 Introduction, HTML5 New Elements: Section, Nav, Article, Aside,
Audio-Tag, Video Tag, HTML5 Form Validations: Require Attribute, Pattern Attribute , Autofocus Attribute, email,
number type, date type, Range type
Introduction to CSS, Types of CSS, CSS Selectors: Universal Selector, ID selector, Tag Selector, Class Selector,
Sub Selector, Attribute Selector, Group Selector, CSS Properties: Back Ground properties, Block Properties, Box
properties, List properties , Border Properties , Positioning Properties, CSS Lists CSS Tables, CSS Menu Design
CSS Image Gallery,
Web Site Development using W3.CSS Framework, W3.CSS Intro, W3.CSS Colors, W3.CSS Containers, W3.CSS
Panels, W3.CSSBorders, W3.CSSFonts, W3.CSS Text, W3.CSS Tables, W3.CSS List, W3.CSSImages, W3.CSS
Grid
Introduction to Client-Side Scripting Language, Variables in JavaScript, Operators in JS, Conditions Statements, JS
Popup Boxes, JS Events, Basic Form Validations in JavaScript
Overview, SGML, Web hosting Basics, HTML, CGL, Documents Interchange Standards, Components of Web
Publishing, Document management, Web Page Design Consideration, and Principles, Search and Meta Search
Engines, WWW, Browser, HTTP, Publishing Tools.
O Level Indrouction of Programming and Problem Solving through Python Language
O Level IT – Programming and Problem Solving through Python Language Marks Distribution
The basic Model of computation, algorithms, flowcharts, Programming Languages, compilation, testing &
Debugging and documentation.
Flow Chart Symbols, Basic algorithms/flowcharts for sequential processing, decision based processing and iterative
processing. Some examples like: Exchanging values of two variables, summation of a set of numbers, Decimal Base
to Binary Base conversion, Reversing digits of an integer, GCD (Greatest Common Division) of two numbers, Test
whether a number is prime, factorial computation, Fibonacci sequence, Evaluate ‘sin x’ as sum of a series, Reverse
order of elements of an array, Find largest number in an array, Print elements of upper triangular matrix, etc.
Python Introduction, Technical Strength of Python, Introduction to Python Interpreter and program execution, Using
Comments, Literals, Constants, Python’s Built-in Data types, Numbers (Integers, Floats, Complex Numbers, Real,
Sets), Strings (Slicing, Indexing, Concatenation, other operations on Strings), Accepting input from Console,
printing statements, Simple ‘Python’ programs.
Assignment statement, expressions, Arithmetic, Relational, Logical, Bitwise operators and their precedence,
Conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif-else; simple programs, Notion of iterative computation and control flow –
range function, While Statement, For loop, break statement, Continue Statement, Pass statement, else, assert.
Lists, tuples and dictionary, (Slicing, Indexing, Concatenation, other operations on Sequence data type), concept of
mutability, Examples to include finding the maximum, minimum, mean; linear search on list/tuple of numbers, and
counting the frequency of elements in a list using a dictionary.
The top-down approach of problem-solving, Modular programming and functions, Function parameters, Local
variables, the Return statement, DocStrings, global statement, Default argument values, keyword arguments,
VarArgs parameters. Library function-input(), eval(),print(), String Functions: count(), find(), rfind(), capitalize(),
title(), lower(), upper(), swapcase(), islower(), isupper(), istitle(), replace(), strip(), lstrip(), rstrip(), aplit(),
partition(), join(), isspace(), isalpha(), isdigit(), isalnum(), startswith(), endswith(), encode(), decode(), String:
Slicing, Membership, Pattern Matching, Numeric Functions: eval(), max(), min(), pow(), round(), int(), random(),
ceil(), floor(), sqrt(), Date & Time Functions, Recursion.
Unit: (vii) File Processing
Concept of Files, File opening in various modes and closing of a file, Reading from a file, Writing onto a file, File
functions-open(), close(), read(), readline(),readlines(),write(), writelines(),tell(),seek(), Command Line arguments.
Scope of objects and Names, LEGB Rule Module Basics, Module Files as Namespaces, Import Model, Reloading
Modules.
Introduction to NumPy ,ndarray, datatypes, array attributes, array creation routines, Array From Existing Data,
Array From Numerical Ranges, Indexing & Slicing.
Introduction – Overview of Internet of Things(IoT), the characteristics of devices and applications in IoT ecosystem,
building blocks of IoT, Various technologies making up IoT ecosystem, IoT levels, IoT design methodology, The
Physical Design/Logical Design of IoT, Functional blocks of IoT and Communication Models.
Working of Controlled Systems, Real-time systems with feedback loop e.g. thermostat in refrigrator, AC, etc.
Connectivity models – TCPIP versus OSI model, different type of modes using wired and wireless methodology,
The process flow of an IoT application.
Unit (iii): Sensors, Actuators and Microcontrollers
Sensor – Measuring physical quantities in digital world e.g. light sensor, moisture sensor, temperature sensor, etc.
Actuator – moving or controlling system e.g. DC motor, different type of actuators
Controller – Role of microcontroller as gateway to interfacing sensors and actuators, microcontroller vs
microprocessor, different type of microcontrollers in embedded ecosystem.
Introduction to Arduino IDE – writing code in sketch, compiling-debugging, uploading the file to Arduino board,
role of serial monitor.
Embedded ‘C’ Language basics – Variables and Identifiers, Built-in Data Types, Arithmetic operators and
Expressions, Constants and Literals, assignment.
Conditional Statements and Loops – Decision making using Relational Operators, Logical Connectives – conditions,
if-else statement, Loops: while loop, do while, for loop, Nested loops, Infinite loops, Switch statement.
Functions – Standard Library of C functions in Arduino IDE, Prototype of a function: Formal parameter list, Return
Type, Function call.
Interfacing sensors – The working of digital versus analog pins in Arduino platform, interfacing LED, Button,
Sensors-DHT, LDR, MQ135. Display the data on Liquid Crystal Display(LCD), interfacing keypad Serial
communication – interfacing HC-05(Bluetooth module) Control/handle 220v AC supply – interfacing relay module.
Need of security in IoT – Why Security? Privacy for IoT enabled devices- IoT security for consumer devices-
Security levels, protecting IoT devices Future IoT eco system – Need of power full core for building secure
algorithms, Examples for new trends – AI, ML penetration to IoT