The Judiciary exam is a comprehensive exam where your knowledge is tested on every front, and computer awareness is one such section in this examination. 

Also, note that it carries a good ten marks in the exam.  This means you must overlook computer awareness as it is one of the highest-scoring topics.

In the Judicial services exam, every aspirant prepares for essential topics like Law, Quantitative aptitude, reasoning, etc. What makes a topper stand out of the crowd is a good grasp over scoring subjects like Computer Awareness.

To make it easier, our experts at Judiciary Gold have curated some simple tips and tricks that will help enhance your preparation levels.

So, why late? Let's dig into the post to better understand how to prepare Computer Science for Judiciary Exams. Happy Learning. 

What is Computer?

Computer A computer is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions stored in its memory that can accept data (input), process the data according to specified rules, produce information (output), and store the information for future use. 

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Types of Computers

The type of computers is a question where most of you might find a bit confused, as all you have heard about since your childhood is a Personal Computer(PC).

But it would help if you were learned that there are various types of computers other than PC such as:

Personal Computers

• No need to mention much about these computers. The computers we use in our daily lives for various purposes, such as offices, making presentations, billing at a counter, and educational goals, will fall under this category.

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Supercomputers

• These computers are way more advanced than the regular computers used in our households and offices.
• These computers can process large amounts of data in a few milliseconds, which organizations like ISRO for very complex calculations about the distance between planets and various other organizations.
• There have been instances where a question regarding India’s first Supercomputer was asked. This comes under your Static GK as well, and such factual information should be read while preparing.

Hybrid Computers

• A hybrid computer is a computer that has the features of both an analog and a functional computer.
• It was basically designed to facilitate the working of an analog computer with a strong capability to perform calculations and has a good digital memory.
• In this case, you should make sure that you read about the year in which the first hybrid computer was developed, i.e. 1961.

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Input/ Output Devices

• Input and output are the topics that you find difficult as you cannot understand the difference between the two of these components of a computer. It can be understood with a simple example of an electronic pen and touch screen tablet.
• The electric pen or stylus can be considered the output, then used to put a message onto the tablet's screen. This command being put in is the input.
• Therefore, input is anything that a user puts as a command into the system to get a response to that input called the output.

Arithmetic Logic Unit

This is also called “The Brain of Computer” as it performs the arithmetic and logic operations based on operands in computer systems.

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Data Size

• The data in computers can also be measured just like other quantifiable things in our daily life, such as sales, profit, etc., and the unit to measure such parameters is money.
• Similarly, the basic unit of measuring or quantifying data in computing language is BITS and BYTES, where BITS is the smallest data unit.

There are other data units other than the two mentioned above, and they have a hierarchy of such units. The units from smallest to largest are as follows:

It must be remembered that every bigger unit has 1024 units preceding a smaller unit.

For example:

1 megabyte is equal to 1024 kilobytes, and 1gigabyte is equal to 1024 megabytes. It is essential to learn the hierarchy stated above as it cannot be changed.

One more point should be remembered: there is a difference between bits and bytes because you may use both these terms interchangeably and still used them sometimes because of their same pronunciation.

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IP address

• It stands for Internet Protocol Address. In simple words, it can be described as the DNA of every computer system in this world as it is unique for the system.
• There have been questions asked regarding its full form in previous year’s exams of various states.

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WWW

• It stands for World Wide Web. These three letters are known to everyone who has had even the slightest of interaction with the internet.
• Questions regarding its founder, its year of the invention have been asked in Judiciary exams. So, it is necessary to know WWW. This is so because it is one of the foundations of the internet, and every website starts with it.
• There is one more concept in the world of computers that is quite new, i.e. Optic Fiber. It is more of an amalgamation of computers and physics.
• These ultra-thin cables are used for wireless services by all the broadband services to provide the best speed to their users.
• Questions like this may be asked in MCQ-type questions, and if you know the answer, it would add to the total tally of your score, thereby increasing the chances of getting into the merit list.

Timeline of Internet

Like there is a history of everything, similarly, the computer world carries a long evolutionary history.

It would help if you made notes in the form of a FLOW CHART to record the history of the internet, how it started, the critical years of breakthrough inventions and discoveries, founders, companies being incorporated. For example:

• 1941:  Alan Turing built the prototype of a computer for decoding the messages during world war.
• 1958: the invention of Integrated Chips led to another revolution in the field of computer science, which boosted advanced processing.
• 1968: INTEL was found by ROBERT NOYCE
• 1975: MICROSOFT was found by William Henry Bill Gates
• 1981: Naryana Murthy laid the foundation of India’s own IT giant- INFOSYS
• 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found APPLE, and a new OS was found, i.e. IOS.
• 1996: Hotmail was invented by our very own Sabeer Bhatia
• 2004: Facebook bringing a paradigm shift in the way people connect
• 2005: video platform YOUTUBE was found
• 2008: Google Chrome was found under the leadership of Sundar Pichai

Important Personalities

• This section deals with famous personalities being given specific names on their own.
• These honorary names must be read and learned because they are very commonly asked in Prelims and Mains and during the interview. 
• It would help if you were well-versed with and during the interview are:
• Father of Internet: Vint Cerf
• Mayor of Silicon Valley: Robert Noyce
• Indian Silicon Valley: Bengaluru