Career Exploration
The four pathways in the Information Technology Career Cluster
What are Information Support and Services, Network Systems, Programming and Software Development, and Web and Digital Communications?
The programs acting as translators between a computer user and the computer itself and control and manage all other programs a computer contains
What are operating systems?
The process creation and deletion, process suspension and resumption, and process synchronization and communication tasks
What is process management?
A set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes
What is a network?
The device that connects two or more packet-switched networks and manages the traffic
What is a router?
The four ages that drove the advancement of the information technology field
What are Premechanical, Mechanical, Electromechanical, and Electronic?
The four general types of operating systems.
What are real-time operating systems; single-user, single task operating systems; single-user, multi-tasking operating systems; and multi-user operating systems?
The requirements to keep track of which parts of memory are currently in use, determining which processes to load when memory space becomes available, and allocates and de-allocates memory space as necessary.
What is Memory Management?
The worldwide system of computer networks known as the biggest Network in the world.
What is the Internet?
A device used to allow multiple users to access the same equipment, access the Internet and other computer applications simultaneously, and mange resources of a network of computer
What is a server?
The basic to advance knowledge of computers, proficiency in using productivity software, electronic communication skills, and Internet skills
What are the basic skills all professionals in the Information Technology Career Cluster have?
The type of operating system that controls machinery, scientific tools, and industrial instruments and don’t allow the user to have much control over the system
What are Real-Time Operating Systems?
The requirements to create and delete files and directories and support primitives for manipulating files and directories.
What is File Management?
A collection of devices connected together in one physical location, such as a building, office, or home
What is a LAN (Local Area Network)?
A large network of information that is not tied to a single location
What is a WAN (Wide Area Network)?
The pathway that performs the tasks to design, develop, implement, and maintain computer systems and software.
What is the Programming and Software Development pathway?
The type of operating system used PCs that allow the user to run several computer applications at the same time.
What are Single-User, Multi-Tasking Operating Systems?
The requirements to monitor the status of each device, enforce policies related to device time, and allocating and de-allocating hardware.
What is Hardware Management?
A unique identification for a computer on a network and can be public or private and dynamic or static
What is an IP Address?
A device that allows computers to be connected together and looks at the destination IP address in the packet before forwarding the packet to the correct port
What is a Switch?
The person who designs, writes, and installs computer programs and applications
What is a computer programmer?
The operating system that is designed to be small and flexible for use by computer programmers and is not user-friendly for the average user
What is Unix?
The requirements to distinguish between authorized and unauthorized users, only allowing authorized users to access the files and resources, and provide enforcement and controls.
What is Security Management?
A cable used to connect computers to a network and is also known as a twisted-pair cable
What is a Cat-5 Cable?
A network used for real-time control operations with excellent error protection to prevent problems and sends shorter messages then other networks
What is a CAN (Controller Area Network)?