Haryana BSEH Senior Secondary NSQF IT-ITeS flashcards

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IT-ITeS sector meaning

Information Technology and IT-enabled Services: the industry that delivers software, hardware support, and business processes such as finance, HR, and customer service to client organisations.

BPM

Business Process Management: the outsourcing of non-core operations such as payroll, accounting, and customer support to a provider that runs and measures them against agreed service levels.

KPO versus BPO

BPO handles routine rule-based processes such as call handling and data entry; KPO handles knowledge-intensive work such as research, analytics, and legal or medical data interpretation.

Vertical career growth

Movement upward within the same job family, for example data entry operator to senior operator to team leader to process manager, with increasing responsibility and pay.

Home row keys

The eight keys A S D F and J K L semicolon where the fingers rest; F and J carry raised bumps so touch typists can locate them without looking.

Gross WPM formula

Gross words per minute equals total characters typed divided by five, then divided by minutes elapsed, because one standard word is five keystrokes.

Net WPM formula

Net words per minute equals gross WPM minus the number of uncorrected errors per minute; it measures usable typing speed rather than raw keystrokes.

Num Lock on keypad

A ten-key numeric pad used for fast number entry; Num Lock must be switched on for digits to register instead of cursor movement, with 4, 5, and 6 as home keys.

Mail merge main document

The letter, label, or envelope file containing fixed text plus merge fields such as the name field, which are filled from a separate data source during the merge.

Document template

A pre-formatted file, such as Word .dotx or Writer .ott, storing styles, layout, and boilerplate text that new documents inherit while the original template stays unchanged.

Section break

A word-processing break that starts a new section so different pages can carry different headers, footers, margins, or page orientation within one document file.

Absolute cell reference

A reference written with dollar signs such as $A$1 that keeps both row and column fixed when the formula is copied, unlike a relative reference like A1.

COUNT versus COUNTA

COUNT counts only cells holding numbers, while COUNTA counts all non-empty cells including text, dates, and logical values such as TRUE or FALSE.

Pie chart suitability

A pie chart shows parts of a single whole at one moment; all slices must total 100 percent, negative values cannot be plotted, and only one data series is used.

Filter versus sort

Sort rearranges all rows by one or more keys, while filter temporarily hides rows that fail a criterion without changing their stored order.

Primary key

A field, or minimal set of fields, whose value is unique and never null for every record, used to identify and locate rows in a table.

Foreign key

A field in one table that holds values matching the primary key of another table, creating a link between them and enforcing referential integrity.

Form in a database

A screen-based interface for entering, editing, and viewing one record at a time, usually built on a table or query and used for controlled data entry.

Report in a database

A formatted printable output that groups, sorts, and totals records drawn from tables or queries, suitable for printing or exporting as a PDF.

HTML anchor tag

The element written as a with an href attribute that creates a hyperlink to another page, a file, an email address, or a bookmark inside a page.

alt attribute

Text attached to an image tag that describes the picture; it appears when the image fails to load and is read aloud by screen readers for accessibility.

Transition versus animation

A transition is the visual effect between one slide and the next, while an animation is an effect applied to individual objects inside a single slide.

Python for loop range

The function range(start, stop, step) yields numbers from start up to but excluding stop, so range(1, 5) produces 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Array index origin

In Java arrays and Python lists the first element sits at index 0, so the last element of an array of length n is found at index n-1.

Modulus operator

The percent operator returns the remainder of a division; n % 2 equals 0 for even numbers and 1 for odd numbers, which is useful for testing divisibility.

Flowchart decision symbol

A diamond shape representing a yes-or-no condition; it has exactly one entry arrow and two exit arrows marking the true and false branches.

Green IT

Designing, using, and disposing of computers and data centres so that energy consumption, hazardous waste, and the overall carbon footprint are minimised.

Communication feedback

The receiver's response that travels back to the sender and confirms whether the message was decoded and understood as the sender intended.

20-20-20 eye rule

Every 20 minutes of screen work, look at something about 20 feet away for 20 seconds to relax the eye muscles and reduce digital eye strain.

Project portfolio

A curated folder of the project report, code or workbook files, screenshots, test cases, and certificates that evidences a learner's skills for assessment and employers.

Viva voce

An oral examination in which the candidate explains and defends project decisions, code or formulas, and results directly to an examiner, often with live demonstration.

Black-box testing

Testing that checks outputs against given inputs without knowledge of internal code structure, in contrast to white-box testing which uses the code logic itself.