COMPENDIUM OF NOTES IN TLE

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

(COMPUTER SYSTEMS SERVICING)
First Quarter
(Week 5)
(EXPLORATORY – GRADE 7)

Prepared by:
RAYMOND G. PUNO
Teacher I

Noted by: Approved by:

NELIA P. ABAYA, Ed.D. ANGEL M. VILLAMIN, Ed.D.
Head Teacher VI, TLE Principal III
COMPENDIUM OF NOTES IN TLE – INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
(EXPLORATORY – GRADE 7)
LESSON 3. PERFORMING MENSURATION AND CALCULATION
Week 5 LO 1. Select measuring instruments

Objects to be measured
• Memory - it is used most often to identify fast, temporary forms of
storage.
o Random Access Memory. Temporary storage for data and
programs that are being accessed by the CPU.
o Read-only memory. ROM stores the program required to
initially boot the computer and perform diagnostics.
▪ Memory module – soldered memory chips on a
special circuit board.
▪ Cache - high-speed access area that can be a reserved
section of main memory or on a storage device.
▪ Register - refer to how much information a processor
can process at once.
• Storage drives
❖ Hard disk drive
• Also known as hard drive, is a magnetic storage device that is installed
inside the computer.

• The hard drive is the most common storage device used as permanent
storage for data on a computer.

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 ❖ Solid state drive
• It uses memory technology that works more like the computer's
internal memory (RAM). But unlike RAM, where information is only
stored temporarily and disappears as soon as it loses power, an SSD
retains its data even when your computer is turned off.

• Much faster than HDD

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❖ Optical Drive
• An optical drive is a storage device that uses lasers to read data on
the optical media.

• There are three types of optical drives: Compact Disc (CD), Digital
Versatile Disc (DVD) and Blu-ray Disc (BD).

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❖ Floppy drive
A floppy drive, or floppy disk drive, is a storage device that uses
removable 3.5-inch floppy disks. These magnetic floppy disks can
store 720 KB or 1.44 MB of data.

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❖ Flash Drive
An external flash drive, also known as a thumb drive, is a removable
storage device that connects to a USB port.

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❖ External hard drive

Just a hard drive (HDD) that is connected to a computer on the outside
rather than on the inside.

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Drive interface. A physical device, port, or connection that interacts with

the computer or other hardware device.

Examples of drive interfaces

• IDE – Integrated Drive Electronics, also called Advanced Technology
Attachment (ATA) is an early drive controller interface that connects
computers and hard disk drives. An IDE interface uses a 40-pin
connector.

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 • SATA – Serial ATA refers to the serial version of the ATA drive
controller interface. A SATA interface uses a 7-pin data connector.
SCSI – Small Computer System Interface is a drive controller interface
that can connect up to 15 drives.

LO 2. Carry out measurements and calculation

Digital Representation
Digital binary format – the representation of information in a computer
Bit – abbreviation of binary digit and represents the smallest piece of data.
- Can only have 2 values, 1 and 0.
ASCII. Short for American Standard Code for Information Interexchange, ASCII
is a standard that assigns letters, numbers, and other characters in the 256
slots available in the 8-bit code.
The ASCII decimal (Dec) number is created from binary, which is the language
of all computers.
The ASCII Table.

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Converting Decimal to Binary
To convert a decimal number to binary, all you have to do is divide the number
by 2. Get the quotient and the remainder. Bring down the quotient, divide it
by 2, and get the quotient and remainder again. Do it repeatedly until the
quotient results to 0. Copy the remainder from bottom to top, and that is the
binary equivalent.

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Calculating Data Storage
Unit of information - the capacity of some standard data storage system or
communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and
channels.
Unit Shortened Capacity
Bit B 1 or 0
Byte B 8 bits
Kilobyte KB 1024 bytes
Megabyte MB 1024 kilobytes
Gigabyte GB 1024 megabytes
Terabyte TB 1024 gigabytes
Petabyte PB 1024 terabytes

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Unit conversion

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LO 3. Maintain measuring instruments

Proper handling of storage devices
• Store at room temperature
• Do not place the device on top of other electronics
• Eject the device safely
• Maintain integrity of files
• Keep it safe

Do’s and Don’ts in Handling Storage Devices

Do’s

• Regularly scan your device with an updated antivirus tool that avoids
your device being get affected by virus and malware threats
• Always keep the device in a sophisticated place that avoids falling and
can safeguard it from small damages happening to it
• Always attempt for recovery of bad sectors that avoids data loss
• Regularly keep on using a device or else it may not work as you use
after a long period of gap
• Defrag device as and when you experience low performance of it
• Delete unwanted files and save some space in it prior to facing storage
space scarcity
• If the device is externally one then always use safe remove option
while ejecting them from connected systems

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 • Regularly format devices with the file system which supported by your
system

Don’ts

• Don’t store any virus infected files and folders on them

• If device are pen drives, memory cards etc then do not frequently
insert and eject them as they don’t recognize by the system when you
connect
• Don’t connect devices to virus and malware infected systems

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 ACTIVITY SHEETS FOR TLE TLE – COMPUTER SYSTEM SERVICING
(EXPLORATORY – GRADE7)
Lesson 3: Performing Mensuration and Calculation (PMC)
Week 5 LO 1. Select measuring instruments

Activity 5.1
Direction. Complete the details of the table below.
Image Name Capacity Type of Storage

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LO2. Carry out measurements and calculation

Activity 5.2.
Direction. Using your ASCII table as reference, decode the following messages.
1. 084 111 032 105 110 102 105 110 105 116 121 032 097 110 100
032 098 101 121 111 110 100 033
2. 068 097 110 103 097 108 044 032 104 117 115 097 121 032 097
116 032 116 097 103 117 109 112 097 121 033
3. 073 032 104 097 118 101 032 110 111 032 115 112 101 099 105
097 108 032 116 097 108 101 110 116 046 073 032 097 109 032
111 110 108 121 032 112 097 115 115 105 111 110 097 116 101
108 121 032 099 117 114 105 111 117 115 046
4. 067 114 101 097 116 105 118 105 116 121 032 105 115 032 099
111 110 116 097 103 105 111 117 115 044 032 112 097 115 115
032 105 116 032 111 110 046
5. 065 108 108 032 105 115 032 119 101 108 108 046

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Activity 5.3
Direction. Complete the table below by computing what is being asked.
Bytes Kilobytes Megabytes Gigabytes
3,072
5
2,097,152
8,589,934,592
4,096