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Dawn H
8 HOURS
8 LESSONS
This course is designed to aid the understanding of the internal workings of a computer system. Students will look at the individual components that make up a computer, looking in-depth at the Central Processing Unit, Control Unit, Buses, Arithmetic Logic Unit and Registers and how each of these parts is used in the Fetch Execute Cycle and how each of the different architectures (Vonn Neumann Architecture and Harvard Architecture) moves information around the computer system in an efficient and effective way. These concepts would have been covered in GCSE Computer Science, but they are expanded within the A-Level course.
8 LESSONS
8 HOURS Total Length
Lesson 1
Operating System
60 minutes
Lesson 2
Memory Management
60 minutes
Lesson 3
Fetch Execute
60 minutes
Lesson 4
Scheduling
60 minutes
Lesson 5
Distributed, Embedded, Multi-Tasking, Multi-User and Real Time Operating Systems
60 minutes
Lesson 6
BIOS
60 minutes
Lesson 7
Device Drivers
60 minutes
Lesson 8
Virtual Machines
60 minutes
Critical Thinking
Problem Solving
Computer Architecture
Dawn H
Computing Expert
With 25 years of experience and a PGCE, Dawn teaches all Computer Science and ICT topics, including programming and coding.
