Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare to use the personal computer
- Manage computer configurations
- Alter the computer settings to best suit the user
- Configure power-management settings to minimise power consumption as an environmentally sustainable measure
- Identify operating system and the application programs loaded on the computer to determine computer capability
- Conduct basic software installation and removal to improve computer capability
- Navigate and manipulate desktop environment to create and customise desktop icons and access application programs
- Access and use basic application programs
- Open a folder with file documents containing basic office applications, make minor changes and save in a different folder
- Send and retrieve a simple email message using the desktop icon to communicate with other parties
- Access the internet using the web browser to view and conduct basic web information search
- Use firewall and antivirus and malware scans to reduce security risks and threats in the system
- Access and use basic peripheral devices
- Shut down computer