Study Guide

Objective

Student:
- knows the fundamental principles and structure of computer systems, including components, responsibilties and tasks of central processing unit
- recognizes the development of computing devices
- is aware of the the basic principles of operating systems, and the current development trends
- recognizes different end user devices and their functionality
- knows the basic principles and structture of IT-infrastructure

Content

1 Introduction
• Numeral systems
• Boolean expressions
• Basic logical operations; definitions in Finnish and English
• Simplification of logical sentences
• Symbols used for logical operations
• Digital circuits
2. Computer systems
• Key components of your computer
• Computer operation
• memories
• Parallelism
3. Operating system and virtualization
• Operating system types, structure, and functions
4. UNIX / LINUX
• Basics and shell programming
5. IT infrastructure
• Network topologies
• Telecommunications and protocols
• Cloud services
6. Self-study assignment on the chosen topic

Evaluation scale

H-5