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Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

System Software and Hardware

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 155-0321/02
Abbreviation SWHW
Course title System Software and Hardware
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Applied Informatics
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Milena Tvrdíková, CSc.

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

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

Advised literature

No advised literature has been specified for this subject.