Basics of Electricity and Electronics
General Safety Guidelines
Fire Safety
Computer Equipment Disposal
System Components
Power Supplies
ROM BIOS
Central Processing Units
System Boards
Memory
Bus Architectures
What is a Bus
The 8-bit bus
The ISA Bus
The EISA Bus
Micro Channel Architecture Bus
The PCI Bus
Plug and Play
Video Circuitry Buses
Ports, Connectors, and Cables
Overview of Input/Output Ports
PS/2 Ports
Serial Ports
Parallel Ports
Universal Serial Bus Ports
FireWire Ports
Expansion Boards
Drive Controllers
Video Cards
Sound Cards
Modem Cards
Storage Systems
Fixed Disk Drives
Removable Media Disk Drives
Backup Systems
Peripheral Devices
Primary Input Devices
Primary Output Devices
Other Input/Output Devices
Portable Computing
Components of Portable Systems
PC Cards
Power Management
Networking
Network Concepts
Introduction to the OSI Model
Network Connectivity
