Emerging and Digital Technologies

Track: Computer Awareness for Banking and Recruitment Examinations
Level: Beginner / awareness
Coverage: Seven lessons (CA-10-01 to CA-10-07)
Practice: 84 original exam-style multiple-choice questions with individual explanations

Banking and everyday computing increasingly use online services, automated analysis, connected devices, digital payment interfaces and software that operates on shared infrastructure. These ideas are often described using similar-sounding terms. This module develops a clear understanding of what each technology does, how it is commonly used, and what it does not guarantee.

The explanations focus on stable fundamentals rather than products, prices or fast-changing specifications. All scenarios and MCQs are original educational examples, not claimed questions from a particular past examination.

Module learning outcomes

On completing the module, you should be able to:

1. Identify cloud service models (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS), deployment models and resource sharing.
2. Distinguish artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI at an introductory level.
3. Explain sensors, actuators, connectivity and data flow in Internet of Things systems.
4. Recognize the basic parts of a blockchain and the meaning and limits of a distributed ledger.
5. Distinguish QR codes, NFC and UPI/payment authorization from one another.
6. Explain an API, an endpoint and how two digital services exchange requests and responses.
7. Distinguish a physical host, hypervisor, virtual machine and container.