Year 7 Information Technology

HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND

NETWORKS
 This workbook will help you understand the concepts for the topic of Hardware,
Software and Networks. When using this booklet, add in extra images, information
and links that will help you to understand the various topics. Pages 4- 36 in your
Practice IT textbook will also help you.

HARDWARE
1. What is a computer?

2. Name and describe three types of computers.

3. Define ‘peripheral’.

4. What is a computer system?

5. Summarise how a computer works.

6. Complete part A of diagram 1 on next page

7. Name 3 input devices.

8. Why do we use an input device?

9. Name 3 output devices.

10. What is the purpose of output devices?

11. Name 3 storage devices.

12. Why do we need storage devices in a computer system?

13. What does the hardware category ‘Processing and Memory’ do?

14. Name the two components for the hardware category of Processing and Memory.

15. What does CPU stand for?

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16. What does the CPU do?

17. What does RAM stand for?

18. What is the purpose of RAM?

19. Does RAM hold the data permanently? Why or why not?

20. Complete part B of diagram 1.

21. Complete diagram 2.

SOFTWARE
22. What are the main two types of software for a computer system?

23. List 3 processes that the operating system software does.

24. Name at least two operating system software.

25. Define application software.

26. Name 5 application software programs.

27. What is the difference between hardware and software?

NETWORKING
28. Define a computer network.

29. What is the main computer of a network called and what does it do?

30. What is a ‘client’ in a network?

31. Identify three advantages of using a network.

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32. Identify three disadvantages of using a network.

33. What does LAN and WAN stand for?

34. What is a LAN?

35. What is a WAN?

36. How can you tell the difference between a LAN and a WAN?

37. Explain how you connected multiple devices to a network.

38. What does a router do?

39. Explain how we keep a network secure.

40. Complete diagram 3.

41. On the last page, draw a diagram of a typical Chisholm computer room and how it connects
to the internet. Be sure to label the switches, router, server, printer, firewall, WiFi point, and
computers (you only need to draw 5 computers). Be sure to connect them with cables.

42. Give a brief outline of how the Internet was invented.

43. Give three tasks people can complete using the internet.

44. Define the world wide web.

45. What is a URL?

46. What is a Search Engine?

47. Give three examples of a search engine.

48. Choose three types of internet connections you use in your every day life and explain how
each one works.

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Diagram 1. How a computer works
Part A: Label each of the black boxes below with a hardware category that represents how a
computer works.

PART B: In the red boxes, identify at least two hardware devices that are used in that
category

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Diagram 2 Device categories
Identify the name of each device below and label each device as input, output, processing
and memory or storage.

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Diagram 3. Network Diagrams
Identify the network diagrams below as a LAN or WAN..

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