AS ICT All Topics

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    • Topic One - Health and Safety
      • Eye strain – screen filters, blinds,  adjustable screen
      • RSI – Repe***ive strain injury, wrist supports, correctly positioned keyboard, good posture, regular breaks, ergonomic chair
      • Back ache – adjustable chair, foot rest, regular breaks
      • •Tired Eyes & Headaches – Using over long periods
      • (Software) Appropriate font so writing is clear
      • (Software) Suitable background to reduce eye strain
      • (Software) Customise it
      • (Software) Well explained error messages
      • Must have  good comfort to reduce back strain - this is by having the desk at the right height and a ergonomic chair
      • (Software) Insufficient designs and bugs
      • (Software) use of non-standard keys
      • (Software) Badly structured menus
      • Nose pollution should reduce because the equipment is noisy
      • (Manufactures) They must make sure the computer screens swivel and have adjustable light
      • (Manufactures) they musty make sure that keyboards have resting pads
      • (Manufactores) Promote that staff should not use laptops for large amounts of datra
    • Topic Two -  Analysis
      • Client - a person who has commissioned an ICT to produce the software as well as the person to maintain it
      • User - This  is a person that uses the system
      • (Pr oblems) Have an interview and record with a Dictaphone so that they can replay it whenever necassary
      • (Problems) They can review the current system and see any problems they are having
      • (problems) View current documents of the original system and see how you could make it better
      • (Problems) Create a questionnaire for clients and users to see what is wrong with *** and how they can improve it also with what they would like to be included
      • Input - what you type into the system Process - searching through the system output - what is displayed and where it is displayed
        • FOR EXAMPLE .... A school wants to find the amount of perople in a class: they will search the class (input) the resulkts will be searched for (processing) and the results outputted on screen (output)
    • Topic Three - Design of Sloution
      • Verification - This is checking the data agaisnt the orignal
      • Types of verification - Double entry and proof reading
      • Validation - This is checking the data is reasonable and sensible
      • Types of validation
        • Drop down lists - Mrs, Miss. Mr, Master etc
        • Format check - checking taht the info is inthe same format for example a date is dd/mm/yyy
        • Cross Field Check - This is checking that the data is reasonable e.g. cant have gender as male but ***le as Miss
        • Presence check - To vheck field has the box has something written in and has been filled in
    • Topic Four - Input Devices
      • Keyboard
      • Scanner
      • Auto Number Plate Recognition
      • Pointing Device/Mouse
      • Touchecreens
      • Magnetic stripe and chip and pin
      • Speech Recotgnition
    • Topic Five - Storage Device
      • Floppy Disk
      • Hard disk
      • CD- ROM
      • CD-R/W
      • DVD-ROM
      • DVD-RW
      • Magnetic Tape
    • Topic Six - Output devices
      • LCD TV
      • Printers
      • CRTMonitor
      • Television
      • E-Reader
      • Projector
      • Thermal Printer
      • Speakers
      • Robotics
    • Topic Seven - Software
      • Operating System
        • Controls the system including memory and processor
      • System software
        • Designed to operate the and provide and maintain a platform
      • Application Software
        • Designed to help the computer specific taks
      • Utility Software
        • Carries out some of the tasks normally included into the utility software

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