Hardware Course

1. 3 Months Hardware Course Contents Name Fundamental of Computer Historical / Conceptual How the PC Works Input / Output / Storage The Art of the PC Technician Tools of the Trade Avoiding Electrostatic Discharge Anti - Static Tools The Complete PC External Connections Devices & Their Connectors Inside the System Unit Case CPU RAM Motherboard Power Supply Floppy Drive Hard Drive Optical Drive Know Your Parts Recall Operating System Basis What is Operating system Use of Operating system Types of OS

2. Operating System Installation Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 2008 Server Microsoft Windows 8 Microsoft Windows 10 Dual Booting Use of Dual booting Dual Booting in Primary Drive Live Operating System Mini XP or Live Windows Desktop Experience Create a File/Folder Cut/Copy/Paste Wallpaper & Screen Saver Set Date/Time Shut down/Restart/Sleep/Hibernate Rename the File/Folder/Drive Change Mouse Pointer Startup Desktop Personalized Gadgets Display Setting Taskbar & Start Menu Help & Support System Information Check & Change Computer Name Computer Properties Jump List Windows Aero Peek Getting Started Windows Shaking Snipping Tool

3. Erase of Access On Screen Keyboard Magnifier Narrator High Contrast Use Computer without Display Make the Computer eraser to use Use the Computer without Mouse or Keyboard Make the Mouse & Keyboard easy to use User Accounts & Group What is User What is Group Types of Users Create new user & group Enable the administration user Change the membership UAC Password Breaker Password Reset DISK Parental Control Security Policies Password Polices Local Policies DISK Operating System What is DOS Command prompt Commands Nero (DISC Burning) Create Data DISC Copy DISC Make Mp3,Mp4,WMA,Audio DISC Create Nero Image How to Open the Image Erase The Re-writable DISC

4. Computer Management Device Manager What is Driver & their Functions Drive installation & Rolling back Enable /Disable the Devices Event Viewer Performance Monitoring & Tools Virtual Memory Ready boost Performance monitoring Visual effects Action Centre System Startup Security Tools Bit locker Drive Encryption Hidden the drive and File/Folders Organize the Computer Firewall Settings Windows defender Uses of Antivirus Scan with Antivirus Update the Antivirus DEP Settings Internet Access What is web site About the search engine Web Browsers Internet explorer settings Downloading softwares Downloading antivirus Downloading the drivers Create email id Send/receive the mail

5. Windows live essential How to use live essential Windows update USB tools Pen drive bootable Backup and Restore System restore point System image or root drive backup Ghost utility Data backup (logical drives) Data recovery softwares Partition & Formatting Utilities What is formatting Types of formatting Disk management Partition magic software File System and Hard Disk Drive Tools What is file system & types Features of NTFS Compression Encryption Disk quota FAT convert in to NTFS Disk cleanup Check Disk Disk defragmentation Basic to dynamic disk Virtualization VM ware Virtual box Virtual pc

6. Troubleshooting & Maintenance Troubleshooting of Win 7 & XP Advanced options [F8] System Tools Windows easy transfer Manage recycle bin space Typing tutor Microprocessors Historical / Conceptual CPU Core Components The Man in the Box Registers Clocks Back to the External Data Bus Memory Memory & RAM Address Bus Modern CPUs Manufacturers CPU Packages The Pentium CPU: The Early Years Original Pentium Pentium Pro Later Pentium- Class CPUs Pentium II,III Pentium IV Early AMD Athol CPUs Processing & Wattage CPU Codenames AMD Athlon Thunderbird AMD Duron Intel Pentium 4 Willamette AMD Athlon XP (Palomino and Thoroughbred) Intel Pentium 4 ( Northwood and Prescott )

7. AMD Athlon XP ( Thornton and Barton) Pentium 4 Extreme Edition Mobile Processors Intel Xeon Processors Early 64- Bit CPUs Dual- Core CPUs Intel Core-- Goodbye, Pentium Installing CPUs Why Replace a CPU? Determining the Right CPU Buying a CPU Preparing to Install Inserting a PGA - Type CPU Testing Your New CPU The Art of Cooling Know Your CPUs RAM Historical / Conceptual Understanding DRAM Organizing DRAM DRAM Sticks Current RAM Consumer RAM Types of RAM SDRAM RDRAM DDR SDRAM DDR2,DDR3 RAM Variations Working with RAM Do You Need RAM? Getting the Right RAM Installing DIMMs and RIMMs Installing SO-DIMMs in Laptops Troubleshooting RAM

8. BIOS & CMOS Historical / Conceptual We Need to Talk Talking to the Keyboard CMOS Updating CMOS: The Setup Program A Quick Tour Through a Typical CMOS Setup Program BIOS & Device Drivers Option ROM Device Drivers BIOS, BIOS, Everywhere Power - On Self Test (Post) Before and During the Video Test: The Beep Codes Text Errors POST Cards The Boot Process Care & Feeding of BIOS & CMOS Losing CMOS Setting Clearing CMOS Flashing ROM Recall Expansion Bus Historical / Conceptual Structure & Function of the Expansion Bus PC Bus ISA Modern Expansion Buses PCI System Resources I/O Addresses Interrupt Requests COM & LPT Ports Direct Memory Access Memory Addresses Installing Expansion Cards Step 1: Knowledge Step 2: Physical Installation

9. Step 3: Device Drivers Step 4: Verify Troubleshooting Expansion Cards Device Manager Motherboard Historical / Conceptual How Motherboard Works Form Factors Essentials Chipset Motherboard Components Upgrading & Installing Motherboards Choosing the Motherboard & Case Installing the Motherboard Troubleshooting Motherboards Symptoms Techniques Options Power supply Historical/conceptual Understanding electricity Essential Powering the pc Supplying ac Supplying dc IT Technician Installation maintenance & trouble shooting power supplies Installing Cooling When Power Supplies Dies Fused & Files Modular Power Supplies Rail Power

10. Hard Drive Technologies Historical / Conceptual How Hard Drive Works Data Encoding Moving the Arms Geometry ATA THE KING ATA 1 to 7 SCSI : STILL Around SCSI Chains SCSI IDs Termination Protecting Data Raid RAID Implementation RAID Hardware versus Software Personal RAID Managing Heat The future Is RAID Connection Drives Choosing Your Drive Jumper and cabling on PATA Drives Cabling SATA Drives Connecting SCSI Drives BIOS Support: Configuration CMOS and installing Drives Configuring Controllers Auto detection Boot Order Device Drivers Troubleshooting Hard Drive installation Spindle (or Rational ) Speed Implementing Hard Drives Historical / Conceptual Hard Drive Partitions BASIC Disks Dynamics disks When to partition Hard Drive Formatting

11. File system in Windows FAT FAT 32 NTFS The Partition and Formatting Process Bootable Disks Partition and Formatting in Windows Installing CD Partition and Drive Letters Disk Management Dynamic Disks Mount Points Formatting & partitions Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hard Drives Troubleshooting Hard Drive installation Third party Partition Tools Removable Media Historical / conceptual Floppy drives Floppy Drive Basics Essential Installing floppy drives Flash Memory USB Thumb Drives Flash Cards Optical Drives CD / DVD Media Installing Optical Drives Troubleshooting Removable Media Floppy Drives Maintains and Trouble Shooting Trouble Shooting Optical Drives High Definition / Blue Ray Optical Drives

12. Input/output Supporting Common I/O Ports Serial Ports USB Ports Fire wire Ports General Port Issues Common I/O Devices Keyboard Mice Scanners Digital Camera Web Cameras Specialty I/O Devices Biometric Devices Bar Code Readers Touch Screens Recall