Duration: 1 day

Fee: US$ 60.00

  Full Course Outline

Prerequisites: None

Dos architecture and setup

v        Introduction to ‘hardware’

· The system unit

· The motherboard, the microprocessor

· Expansion slots

· Disk Drives, floppy disk and hard disk drives

· Power supply

v        Memory

· RAM / ROM

· System RAM

· Cache Memory

· Types of memory

v        Viewing your data

· Monitors

· The display and display adapters

Keyboards, Mice, Printers and Peripherals

v        Keyboards and Mice

· Introduction to the keyboard

· Introduction to the mouse

· The secondary/alternate mouse

v        Printers

· Dot matrix

· Ink jet or bubble jet

· Laser

v        Peripherals

· Tape streamers

· CD-ROM

· Removable storage

The disk operating System

v        Software

· Introduction to software

· Application software

· Operating system software

v        MS-DOS

· The start-up process

· Resetting the system

· The DOS prompt and working with DOS

· MS-DOS filenames

v        Working with Directories

· The directory structure

· Directories and the DOS prompt

· Changing the current directory

· Creating sub-directories

· Displaying or removing subdirectories

DOS File Structure

v        DOS Commands

· Saving andng files

· Copy and remove files

· Renaming files

· Deleting files

· Formatting a disk, copying a disk