AC9TDI10K01 Year 9 Technologies

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 exploring how public key cryptography, for example TLS, and hashing, such as SHA-1, secure the storage and transmission of data
• 3 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
• 4 explaining how domain names and IP addresses allow data to be transmitted to specific networked devices, for example DNS and routing tables
• 5 describing elements of access control and explaining why they are necessary, for example authentication and permissions for restricting access to install software to administrators

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