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Module 4 :: Applications of ICT
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Content
- applications and limitations of ICT;
- converging communications and information technologies;
- distributed databases;
- systems.
Learning outcomes
Candidates should, in general and within the context of a scenario, be able to:
- describe the use of telecommunication and information technology in telephone systems, banking, production control, global positioning systems, navigation and weather forecasting;
- discuss the use of software-based training methods;
- explain the limitations of using ICT in society today and how advances in technology may overcome some of those limitations;
- discuss the use of networks of computers at work and at home;
- explain how databases may be stored in more than one physical location and how distribution may be carried out using different approaches: partitioned between sites (vertical and horizontal), entire databases duplicated at each site, central database with remote local indexes;
- discuss the use of different types of distributed database systems;
- explain security issues of distributed databases: interception of data, physical access to data, consistency and integrity of data and describe methods of overcoming these issues;
- explain what is meant by an expert system and describe its components and applications;
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