Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
• Packets and common network protocols
• Physical and logical security measures (access control, access levels, passwords
and biometric approaches)
• Network policies: acceptable use, disaster recovery
• Backup procedures
THE INTERNET
• Nature and development of the Internet
• Hardware and services for connecting to the Internet
• Difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web
• Nature of hypertext
• Importance of standards for HTML and other web technologies
• Role of DNS servers
• Common file formats, such as JPG, GIF, PNG, PDF, MP3, MPEG, and ZIP
• Design features and evaluation of websites
• Effective and appropriate use of the Internet in an education context
• Creation of websites using an authoring package
• Awareness of HTML and CSS
• Finding information and advanced searching techniques
• Awareness of reliability, validity and bias of information found, and methods
for mitigating these issues
• Cloud Computing and Cloud storage
SPREADSHEETS AND MODELLING
• Investigate and explain purposes of different computer models
• Design and create spreadsheet models to test 'what if' hypotheses
• Explore model through manipulation of variables to find patterns and
relationships
• Relative/absolute cell referencing
• Formulae and functions
PROGRAMMING
• Algorithms
• Pseudocode and program flow diagrams
• Designing algorithms to solve problems
• Sequences in algorithms
• Selection/Conditionals in algorithms (IF and CASE)
• Iteration in algorithms (FOR, WHILE and REPEAT loops)
• The difference between machine code and high level code, and the need for
translators
• Characteristics of assemblers, compilers and interpreters
• Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) and their typical features
• Defining the terms 'variable' and 'constant'
• Using variables and constants
• Integer, Real, Boolean, Character and String data types
• Selection of appropriate data types for specific purposes
• Basic String manipulation
• Perform common operations on numeric and Boolean data types
• Defining and using arrays
 
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