155-0321/02 – System Software and Hardware (SWHW)
Gurantor department | Department of Applied Informatics | Credits | 5 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Milena Tvrdíková, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Milena Tvrdíková, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
Intended for the faculties | EKF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
To enumerate main hardware components of computers
To explain the functions of computers
To compare the properties of HW modules
To define the principle function of operation systems
To compare advantages various types of operation systems
To exploit practically the functions of the installed operation system
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Project work
Summary
The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the function and
structure of computer software, architecture of operating systems and the
grounding of communication with them.
Furthermore, it provides the basic orientation in possibilities and
requirements for standard applications programming packages.
Compulsory literature:
Silberschatz,A.,Galvin,P.,Gagne,G.:
Operating systems Concepts,Wiley&Sons,USA,2003
O’´Brien, J. A.: Information Systems in Business Management: With Software and
Basic Tutorials. Homewood, Irwin 1988
Stallings, W.: Computer Organization and Architecture, Principles of Structure
and Function. Macmillan 1987
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Components of information systems - an introduction to the topic
2. Functional characteristics of the computer modules
3. System Software
4. Operating Systems - principles of work, used algorithms, client-server
architecture, open systems
5. Unix Operating Systems
6. Operating systems like Windows
7. The use of external sources of information, principles of computer networks
-Internet, Intranet, Extranet
8. Types of Office applications software, CAD, GIS, CASE, EIS, database systems,
DTP
9. Basic computer components and their characteristics
10. The logical structure of the microprocessor, evaluation and types of microprocessors
11. Communication with the microcontroller environment, characteristics and parameters of data
bus
12. Physical and logical organization of memory PC
13. Physical and logical structure of a hard disk, how to work with hard disk
14. The basic properties of compact discs and standards
15. Characteristics and types of monitors
16. Characteristics and types of modems
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction