1.1 The Characteristics of Contemporary Processors, Input, Output & Storage Devices:

• 1.1.1 | Structure and function of the processor
• 1.1.2 | Types of processor
• 1.1.3 | Input, output and storage

1.2 Software and software development:

• 1.2.1 | Systems Software
• 1.2.2 | Applications Generation
• 1.2.3 | Software Development
• 1.2.4 | Types of Programming Language

1.3 Exchanging data

• 1.3.1 | Compression, Encryption and Hashing
• 1.3.2 | Databases
• 1.3.3 | Networks
• 1.3.4 | Web Technologies

1.4 Data types, data structures and algorithms

• 1.4.1 | Data Types
• 1.4.2 | Data Structures
• 1.4.3 | Boolean Algebra

1.5 Legal, moral, cultural and ethical issues:

• 1.5.1 | Computing related legislation
• 1.5.2 | Moral and ethical Issues