Description:
| Aims: To give learners the opportunity:
* To provide the knowledge and understanding of the way in which a computer works;
* To provide knowledge and understanding of computer systems and how the components work together;
* To provide practical experience of how to maintain a computer including faultfinding, diagnosis and repair;
* To provide knowledge and understanding of computer peripherals;
* To provide knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of an operating systems;
* To provide knowledge and understanding of the basic elements of a computer network.
Learning Outcomes: To achieve this unit a learner must:
* Understand computer architecture;
* Be able to recognise components and know how they work;
* Be able to identify peripherals and how to use them;
* Be able to assemble a computer and install an operating system;
* Be able to fault-find, diagnose and repair a PC;
* Be able to connect and manage a simple network.
Skills: Practical skills - use of hand tools, safe working practice (Assessed).
Personal skills - working with others, independent research, problem solving.
Communication skills - oral presentations (facilitated), written reports (facilitated) demonstrations (facilitated).
Content: This unit will look at the fundamental way in which a computer works, how it is put together and how it can be used to communicate information across a network. The areas covered will include:
Computer Systems - which will include CPU, RAM, Mainboard, I/O systems, RISC, CISC, backing store, peripherals, component compatibility and selection;
Operating Systems - Open and closed systems, DOS, GUI, Microsoft, UNIX, Linux (compare/contrast), OS Installation, NOS;
Networking - Introduction to fundamentals inc OSI model, TCP/IP, IP, addressing, NIC, cabling.
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