The Unified Modeling Language is an internationally accepted standard that is used for Object Oriented Modeling and can be used to represent a model that adopts the best software engineering practices. It is a software language that can be used to create blueprints. This article has looked at the basic concepts of UML and its terminologies. I will follow this up with another article where I will discuss all these three categories of the UML diagrams and how to use the UML relationships with real life examples. Happy reading!