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Cheltenham Courseware
ECDL ® Syllabus Five
ECDL Module One
Concepts of IT Windows Vista & Microsoft Office 2007 Edition
HARDW ARE INPUT DEVICES
Hardware Input devices. What is a pers onal c omputer? Keyboard Apple computers Mouse Laptop & pal mtop computers Scanners Featur es of handhel d portable digital devices Tracker balls Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) Touch pads Mobile phones (cell phones) Joys ticks Media pl ayers Web cams Smartphones Digital cameras Parts of a c omputer Microphones The CPU Memor y (RAM) OUTPUT DEVICES ROM-BIOS Output devices Disks Traditional computer monitor The Hard (Fixed) Disk Flat screen computer screens Projection devices INPUT/OUTPUT PORTS Speakers and headphones Univers al Serial Bus (USB) Port Speech s ynthesizers Serial Port Printers Parallel Port Different types of printer Network Port Laser printers FireWire Port Colour laser printers Inkjet printers COMPUTER PERFORMANCE Dot Matrix printers Factors affecti ng computer performanc e CPU Clock s peed INPUT AND OUTPUT DEVICES RAM size Hard dis k speed and storage SOFTW ARE CONCEPTS Free hard dis k s pac e What is software? De-fragmenti ng files What is an operating s ystem? Multitas king consi derati ons Examples of s oftware applicati ons CPU speeds Word processi ng applications Spreadsheets applications MEMORY AND STOR AGE Database applications What is computer memory? Presentation applications RAM E-mailing applications ROM Web browsing applicati ons ROM-BIOS Photo editing applications Video (graphics) memory Computer games Measurement of storage capacity Difference between the operating s ystem and Types of storage medi a application programs Internal hard disks Accessibility options External har d dis ks Voice rec ognition software CDs Screen reader software DVDs Screen magnifier software Recordable CD & D VD drives On-screen keyboard USB flas h dri ves ( memor y stic ks) Memor y c ards NETW ORK TYPES Network drives and on-line file s torage LAN (Loc al Area Network) Floppy disks (dis kettes) WLAN ( Wireless Local Area N etwor k) WAN (Wide Area Network)
Client/ser ver networ ks Lighting issues when using a computer Internet Screen and keyboard positioning World Wide Web (WWW) vs . the Internet Seati ng issues when using a computer Intranets Wellbei ng when using a computer Extranets Make sure that c ables are s afel y s ecured Make sure that power points are not overloaded DATA TR ANSFER Downl oading from & uploadi ng to a networ k ENVIRONMENT Data transfer rate measur ement Computer rec ycling options Broadband vs . dial-up Inter net c onnecti on s ervic es Computer energy savi ng options Internet c onnecti on opti ons Featur es of a broadband Internet c onnection SECURITY
ICT IN EVERYD AY LIFE IDENTITY/AUTHENTIC ATION
Computer l ogon user name (ID) and pass wor d. ELECTRONIC W ORLD Pass word policies What does ‘Information and Communication Technology’ (ICT) mean? DATA SECURITY Internet s ervic es for cons umers Off-site bac kups E-commerce Why do you need to bac k up your computer? E-commerce Organising your computer for more efficient bac kups Advantages of e-commerce Compl ete vs . incremental bac kups Disadvantages of e-c ommerce What is a firewall? E-banki ng Data theft issues E-government E-learning VIRUSES Uses of c omputer applicati ons i n educ ation Computer virus es Teleworki ng Computer virus i nfec tion iss ues Some of the advantages of tele-worki ng Protecti ng against c omputer virus infection Some of the disadvantages of tele-wor king What to do if you discover a virus on your computer The limitations of anti virus software COMMUNICATION Electronic mail (e- mail) LEGAL ISSUES Instant mess aging (IM) Voice over Internet Protoc ol (VoIP) COPYRIGHT Really Simple Syndic ation (RSS) feeds What is copyright? Blogging (web logs) Copyright Issues when c opying files Podc asts SITE LICENSES VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES Chec king software licenc e status Online ( virtual) communities What is an ‘end-us er license agreement’? Social networ king websites Exami ning the ‘end-us er license agreement’ within Internet forums (message boards / discussion Office 2007 s oftware boards) Types of licenc e agreement Chat rooms What is shareware? Online c omputer games What is freeware? Publishing and sharing content online. Open source software Sharing photos, video and audio clips. Precautions when acc essing online c ommunities DATA PROTECTION Data Pr otecti on and Pri vac y Issues HEALTH Data Pr otecti on Legislation What is ergonomics ? Repetiti ve Strai n Injury (RSI) ABBREVIATIONS & T ERMINOLOGY