Question 4 OR (a) part iii

Computer network

3 marks

Time to write
About 6 minutes

From an older CBCS paper

Question

Question 4 OR (a) part iii · 3 marks

Define each of these terms:

  1. A computer network and a computer virus.

Reworded from the university paper; the task is the same. The original paper belongs to the University of Delhi. See DU's question bank.

Before you write

Read off the question and its marks

6 minfor 3 marks

Read from the question

  • DefineA precise definition in one or two lines.

What the paper leaves open

This older-course question examines the Information Technology Act, 2000, which the current UGCF Business Laws syllabus does not name; it is answered as printed. Marked as one question of 9 marks; answered here in 3 parts of 3 marks each (marks inferred).

Write it in this order

  1. 1 (iii) Computer network 1½ marks 3 min
  2. 2 Computer virus 1½ marks 3 min

Short on time? Trim steps 1 and 2 evenly rather than skip one: each is capped at its own marks.

Try it first. About 6 minutes for 3 marks. Write it out, then open the solution.

Solution

Hover or tap a marked figure, like 72,000, to see how it is made and where else it appears.

(iii) Computer network. Under section 2(1)(j), a computer network means the inter-connection of one or more computers, computer systems or communication devices through “the use of satellite, microwave, terrestrial line, wire, wireless or other communication media, and” terminals or a complex of two or more interconnected computers or communication devices, whether or not the inter-connection is continuously maintained.

Computer virus. Under clause (iii) of the Explanation to section 43, a “computer virus” means “any computer instruction, information, data or programme that destroys”, “damages, degrades or adversely affects the performance of a computer resource or attaches itself to another computer resource and operates when a programme, data or instruction is executed or some other event takes place in that computer resource”.

Where the 3 marks sit

#ComponentMarks
1(iii) Computer network1.5
2Computer virus1.5
Total3
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