Subdomains
Click on the subdomain titles to examine the range of skills and concepts a student can expect to demonstrate for assessment of this Domain:
IT Fundamentals I - Foundations
- The graduate demonstrates a basic working knowledge of networked resources.
- The graduate describes the role and basic functioning of hardware and software needed for Internet business.
- The graduate organizes and produces a simple but functioning Web site.
- The graduate demonstrates knowledge of Web browser function, use, configuration, and customization.
IT Fundamentals II - Technical Fundamentals
- The graduate demonstrates an understanding of personal computer components, and their function, in a desktop system.
- The graduate demonstrates a basic working knowledge of computer data storage and information retrieval.
- The graduate recommends appropriate strategies for classifying, installing, configuring, optimizing, upgrading, and troubleshooting printers.
- The graduate recommends appropriate strategies for classifying, installing, configuring, optimizing, upgrading, and troubleshooting laptops and portable devices.
- The graduate recommends appropriate strategies for classifying, installing, configuring, optimizing, upgrading, and troubleshooting computer operating systems.
- The graduate recommends appropriate strategies for classifying, installing, configuring, optimizing, and upgrading basic network types.
- The graduate recommends appropriate strategies for classifying, controlling access, setting permission, configuring, optimizing, and upgrading basic system security.
IT Fundamentals III - Technology Management Fundamentals
- The graduate recommends appropriate tools, diagnostic procedures, preventive maintenance and troubleshooting techniques for personal computer components in a desktop system.
- The graduate recommends appropriate tools, and strategies for identifying, preventing, and reporting safety hazards and environmental/human accidents in a technological environment.
- The graduate communicates effectively with colleagues and clients in a technological environment.
- The graduate evaluates the implication of job-related professional behavior in a given scenario.