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Prescription: OS600 (OS200)Operating Systems

Aim of Module To provide students with the skills and knowledge to configure and support two operating systems.

Credits 7

Student Learning hours 70

Content Revised 2000

Prescription Expiry Date Nov 2005

Note The two operating systems must not be as similar as, for example, Win95/8 and Windows NT. Where the provider wants to study one operating system in depth they should use OS65n(OS25n).


Level and Assessment Schedule
TopicsHighest
Skill Level
Suggested
Assessment
Percentage
1 Operating System A 100

100

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The Student Will
A1Configure and support two operating systems.

CONTENT

1Operating System
> Use of a wide range of operating system commands and utilities for configuring and supporting each operating system.
Eg.
- Automatic menus
- Backup and restore
- Directory management
- Drive mapping
- Formatting
- Process killing
- Process prioritising
- Search paths
- Terminal configuration
- User name and password management
top
Note
> Equal weighting will apply to each of the operating systems covered.



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