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AC9TDI10K01: Year 9 Technologies Content Descriptor – Digital systems
AC9TDI10K01 Year 9 Technologies

AC9TDI10K01 – Year 9 Technologies: Digital systems

Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
Digital systems

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

  • • explaining how the operating system hides the complexity of different hardware from applications, for example applications can treat input from a mouse and touch screen in the same way
  • • exploring how public key cryptography, for example TLS, and hashing, such as SHA-1, secure the storage and transmission of data
  • • configuring a simple network using real or simulated hardware and observing packets moving around the network, for example monitoring packets on simulated switches and networked devices
  • • explaining how domain names and IP addresses allow data to be transmitted to specific networked devices, for example DNS and routing tables
  • • describing elements of access control and explaining why they are necessary, for example authentication and permissions for restricting access to install software to administrators

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASTECTDIY910
Year 9 Technologies Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10 students develop and modify innovative digital solutions, decompose real-world problems, and critically evaluate alternative solutions against stakeholder elicited user stories. Students acquire, interpret and model complex data with databases and represent documents as content, structure and presentation. They design and validate algorithms and implement them, including in an object-oriented programming language. Students explain how digital systems manage, control and secure access to data; and model cyber security threats and explore a vulnerability. They use advanced features of digital tools to create interactive content, and to plan, collaborate on and manage agile projects. Students apply privacy principles to manage digital footprints.