Università Roma Tre

Structure of the computer. Hardware and Software. General diagram of a data processing system. Type of computers. The use of the computer memories. The processor. The multiprocessor architectures. Input / Output: Ports for input / output of the computer. The units of input. The units of output. Operating systems. Characteristics of the operating systems. The multitasking operating systems. The Windows operating system. The graphical interface. Computer networks.
The communication between computers. Protocols and interfaces. The local networks. The transmission media. The types of network. The network technologies. The wide area networks. Client-server architecture and peer-to-peer networks. Internetwork. Internet. The services of the Internet.
. Word processing and presentation tools. Spreadsheets Use of data bases

ECDL Syllabus 5.0
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