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Information Technology Foundations
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

Information Technology Foundations A Essential Outcomes

Safety

·         Identify and categorize safety hazards and prevention in the information technology industry.

·         Implement the industrial safety standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

·         Exhibit acceptable dress and personal grooming determined by the information technology industry.

Careers

·         Develop a profile of career opportunities.

·         Project future career opportunities within the information technology industry.

·         Assess situations and apply problem-solving and decision making skills within the school, community, and workplace.

·         Explore economic aspects, the free enterprise system, and the role of government as they relate to the information technology industry.

·         Analyze current and economic indicators to anticipate future trends in the information technology industry.

Computer History

·         Trace the evolution of computers, networking, the Internet, and the Web.

·         Identify people in history who helped to shape the information technology industry.

·         Demonstrate the use of search engines and search terms.

·         Navigate between URL links.

Peripheral Devices

·         Manipulate keyboard, mouse, CD burners, scanners, and other peripheral devices.

·         Evaluate connections or exchange display devices.

·         Identify common components and devices that can be attached to the unit.

·         Connect a variety of devices to the central processing unit.

·         Perform troubleshooting techniques on malfunctioning devices.

Electric and Power

·         Make and verify connections of a computer power supply.

·         Identify and remedy a failed computer power supply.

·         Define the relationship given by Ohm’s Law.

·         Define the relationship given by the formula for electric power.

·         Describe the significant differences between alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC).

·         Students will use basic electrical measuring and construction equipment.

·         Measure AC and DC voltages using a digital multimeter (DMM).

·         Measure AC and DC current using a digital multimeter (DMM)>

Email

·         Define protocols used to send and receive emails.

·         Identify proper use of email messages in the workplace.

·         Demonstrate proper “netiquette” when writing emails.

Information Technology Foundations A Essential Outcomes

Safety

·         Identify and categorize safety hazards and prevention in the information technology industry.

·         Implement the industrial safety standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

·         Exhibit acceptable dress and personal grooming determined by the information technology industry.

Networking

·         Evaluate the three categories of the open system interconnect model (OSI).

·         Evaluate the protocols, services, and functions that pertain to each layer of the OSI model.

·         Evaluate the characteristics of the start, bus, mesh, and ring topologies and their advantages and disadvantages.

·         Research the characteristics of segments and backbones.

·         Differentiate a wide area network (WAN) and a local area network (LAN).

·         Compare and contrast a server, workstation, host, and client.

·         Analyze server-based networking and peer-to-peer networking.

·         Compare and contrast broadband and baseband.

·         Research the differences, advantages, and disadvantages of standard protocols.

·         Setup and properly configure standard protocols.

·         Compare and contrast full and half duplexing.

·         Define the basics of a binary counting system.

·         Define the basics of a hexadecimal counting system.

·         Define the function of the digital AND, OR, and NOT functions.

Cabling

·         Compare the advantages and disadvantages of coax, Cat 1, Cat2, Cat 3, Cat 4, Cat 5e, Cat 5, Cat 6, Cat 6e, fiber optic, UTP, and STP, and the conditions under which they are appropriate.

·         Evaluate the proper procedure for twisted pair cable construction.

·         Research the terms cable, network interface card, and router.

Printers

·         Identify different types of printers in use today.

·         Define the laser printer process.

 Operating Systems

·         Research client base that best serve specific network operating systems and their resources.

·         Analyze the directory of services of the major network operating systems.

·         Compare basic theory of operating systems.

·         Analyze the function and purpose of the disk operating system.

·         Install and configure disk operating systems to the basic operational level.

·         Diagnose and correct disk operating system problems.

 Web Page Design

·         Illustrate the relationship of Web design terms to Web designs and software applications.

·         Comprehend and apply standard file/path name structure.

·         Evaluate the features of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Web publishing software.

·         Differentiate between types of frame pages.

·         Discuss the use of markup tags, such as HTML, to create columns and rows within a document.

·         Comprehend the use of tags to prevent scrolling, browser resizing, and control frame content and size.

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