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Chapter 1 Hardware and Software
Chapter 1 Hardware and Software
Types and
components of
computer systems
1.1 hardware and software
Objectives
Candidates should be able to:
define hardware as consisting of physical components of a
computer system
identify internal hardware devices (e.g. processor,
motherboards, random access memory (RAM), read-only
memory (ROM), video cards, sound cards and internal hard
disk drives)
identify external hardware devices and peripherals (such as
monitors, keyboards, mice, printers as input and output devices
and external storage devices in general)
Computer System
A computer system is a set of integrated devices
that input, output, process, and store data and
information.
Hardware
Definition: hardware are the physical components of a
computer system.
Types of hardware
There are two types of hardware:
Internal hardware devices
External hardware devices