Years 9 and 10 · Technologies · Knowledge and understanding

AC9TDI10K01

investigate how hardware and software manage, control and secure access to data in networked digital systems

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1. Years 7 and 8AC9TDI8K01explain how hardware specifications affect performance and select appropriate hardware for particular tasks and workloads
2. Years 7 and 8AC9TDI8K02investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
3. Years 7 and 8AC9TDI8K03investigate how digital systems represent text, image and audio data using integers
4. Years 7 and 8AC9TDI8K04explain how and why digital systems represent integers in binary