This document provides an introduction to units about IT-related communication and technical/non-technical topics. It discusses communicating with both technical and non-technical colleagues/clients through methods like PowerPoint presentations or video. Various technical topics are then explored at different levels, including memory, sound, visuals, motherboards, RAM, SATA/PATA, CPUs, and social media. Explanations are provided for non-technical audiences using everyday comparisons.

1. IT-RELATED INFORMATION
UNIT 1&2
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2. WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF?
Technic Non-
al Technical

3. INTRODUCTION
This unit is all about -3- Introduction
communicating within the
-4- Non-Technical(to 7)
workplace, this entails talking
to less technical people to the -8-Technical(to 12)
more advanced people, this
-13- Social Media
can be expressed by either
using a PowerPoint or the use
of a camera. It is all about the
communication of people in the
work place, these could be
colleagues or the client that is
in need. Also you must be able
to show if you can use social
divises.
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4. NON-TECHNICAL ‘MEMORY’
Memory: This software is very Memory: Memory on the computer
important, reason why is; what acts very similar to real life.
you are working on right now is When you store something on
what the RAM has opened up the hard-drive, in-real life you
for you. It’s similar to when you are effectively storing work in a
have work on your desk and depot or storage area. When
work on your shelf; the desk is you take something out of
your RAM and the shelf is your storage to use it or work on it
hard-drive. The work on your on your desk your effectively
desk is opened by the RAM so putting work onto the RAM.
you can work on it and the
shelf is bigger and stores more
work. ( You can’t work straight
of your shelf, can you? )
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5. NON-TECHNICAL ‘SOUND’
Sound: All the sounds come from Sound: It is use for
this one piece of equipment everything, clicking on the
called the ‘sound card’ this computer, translate work and
converts files from the even be programmed into
computer into sound from the games. Anything on a video
speakers or/and the game and televisions
headphones. The better the originated from the computer
sound card the better the because it can be programmed
sound, meaning the definition by anything.
of the instruments and the
beat. Nothing is fuzzy in the
sounding of the music. Sound
cards basically download and
delete the music as it goes.
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6. NON-TECHNICAL ‘VISUAL’
Visual: Monitors are a form of Visual: There are so many types of
‘visual’ technology, which it visual outputs like projectors
shows what you are working and touch screen monitors. All
on at the time,. They are very of the have a specific way of
delicate and if you open up the showing there visual
you may be in danger and outputs, like the projectors
‘may’ die. Projectors are have a specific lens that shoots
‘visual’ because they show the out the light so it’s visible on a
display on a wall of screen so wall, and the touchscreen
the worker can do the work on allows you to change the
a larger scale. output.
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7. MOTHERBOARD ‘NON-TECHNICAL’
It allows EVERYTHING to work, all
wires link to this board. All
hard-ware components are
needed to be link to this, in fact
if something is not linked to the
motherboard or wirelessly
recognised by the motherboard
it will not even be accounted
for and not going to be used.
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8. ‘RAM’ (RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY)
RAM comes in all different types of SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic
forms, there are better versions RAM) is a extremely fast piece of
than others there are RAM’s for hardware, it’s speed is 133 mhz
certain forms of use. where as a RAM is not as fast and
DRAM (Dynamic RAM) the dynamic won’t work as well. It works by
RAM’s use a capacitor to using input and output devices
function there RAM it reads in linked to a built internal clock.
0’s and 1’s. It only holds work if ROM (Read-Only Memory) is a
it have a constant pulse of non-volatile memory which means
electricity it is called a ‘fresh it stills stores the information
circuit’. So if there is a strong even if the computer has no
and fast flow of electricity the power going to it which RAMs do
DRAM works a charm. not they are called volatile.
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9. SATA/PATA
Pata Cables (Parallel ATA) this Sata Cables (Serial ATA) these are a
cable is used to link many lot faster and better than the
different types of hardware, for Pata cable. Because it offers
example you can link the hard less cable usage which saves
drive it’s self to the more money than Pata, allows
motherboard via the Pata hot swapping allows you to
cable. The cable has a 40 take it out when ever, also it
pin, which allows the cable to works a lot faster because it
link to all different hard-ware uses a higher signal rate and
components, because 40 is a also and allows the fact that
very strong number to transfer lets you to use a queuing
data between. It also links to protocol too.
many other hard ware
components like the disk
drive, and floppy drive.
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10. CPU (CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT)
This is the brain of the computer, if Not every task is sent too the CPU
a PC had a miss functioning there are tasks that the hard-
CPU it probably would even ware it’s self can handle like
turn on. Everything you do on a making sure the DVD is
computer is controlled by the running on a Disc drive and the
CPU. The CPU is always hard drive can keep giving the
realising heat energy because information to the RAM to a
of the amount of work that it is certain extent.
doing, one way to protect your
CPU from over heating is to
use a thermal compound,
which it allows to take away the
heat from the CPU too cool it
down.
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11. SOCIAL MEDIA
There are many types of social
media, like twitter and
Facebook; these are all social
sites but they spread
information. All the tweets and
all the Facebook statuses are
all small forms of social media.
Social media is when people
spread information that may
not be correct but may not be
wrong, it can be fine, but it can
be changed by opinions of
others. Normal media like the
news can not be changed
because of the fact that it is
already printed on the paper
and shipped off, anything wrote
on that page is the news and
can not be changed.
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