Objective:
This section contains six domain practice reviews related to the CompTIA ITF Practice Exam Domains:
The domain practices:
- Have 20 questions per domain review
- Are randomly generated
- Have no time limit
- Are not pass/fail
- Have a percentage score at the end of the session
- Recommend an 80% passing score.
Links:
Topics Discussed:
- Section 2.1: The Internet
- Section 2.4: Networking Standards and Protocols
- Section 2.5: Application Delivery
- Section 4.2: Data
- Section 4.3: Threats to Data
- Section 4.4: Security Concepts
- Section 4.5: Personal Data and Device Security
- Section 4.6: Corporate Data Security
Assignment:
- Access the TestOut Courseware through the provided link.
- Review Sections 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6, and take the 20 question A.2.6 practice test. Your goal is to achieve a score of 80% or higher on the practice test.
- After you finish, you may review each question by selecting the Individual Responses option, then return to the relevant section in the course to review the instructional material.
- Retake the practice test after reviewing the material to make progress towards and achieve the 80% passing score before the end of day on Friday of this week.
- We will take a comprehensive practice test covering all six of the CompTIA Exam Objective Domains on Tuesday of next week. Use these six practice tests as your review resources to identify gaps in your knowledge, and re-read the relevant chapters to fill these gaps and prepare for Tuesday’s comprehensive practice test.
Assigned: February 13th, 2020
Teacher Pacing Due Date: February 14th, 2020
Objective:
This section contains six domain practice reviews related to the CompTIA ITF Practice Exam Domains:
The domain practices:
- Have 20 questions per domain review
- Are randomly generated
- Have no time limit
- Are not pass/fail
- Have a percentage score at the end of the session
- Recommend an 80% passing score.
Links:
Topics Discussed:
- Section 1.1: The Information Age
- Section 1.2: How Computers Work
- Section 1.4: Processing and Storage Hardware
- Section 3.4: Programming Terms and Concepts
- Section 4.1: Information Systems
- Section 4.2: Data
Assignment:
- Access the TestOut Courseware through the provided link.
- Review Sections 1.1, 1.2, 1.4. 3.4, 4.1 and 4.2, and take the 20 question A.2.1 practice test. Your goal is to achieve a score of 80% or higher on the practice test.
- After you finish, you may review each question by selecting the Individual Responses option, then return to the relevant section in the course to review the instructional material.
- Retake the practice test after reviewing the material to make progress towards and achieve the 80% passing score before advancing to the next Practice Exam.
Assigned: January 27th, 2020
Teacher Pacing Due Date: January 28th, 2020
Objective:
This section introduces you to data and information assets, intellectual property laws, and digital privacy. After finishing this section, you should be able to:
- Describe the relationship between data and information assets.
- Identify the basic steps in the data analytics process.
- Describe the implications of copyright and intellectual property laws for Internet use.
- Explain how much privacy you can expect when using the Internet for social networking, file sharing, and financial transactions.
- Explain how much privacy you can expect when using computers at work.
Links:
Key Terms:
- Data Analytics The process of turning data points into useful information.
- Copyright Protections granted by the federal government to creators, writers, and inventors regarding rights to reproduce, display, make derivatives of, sell, rent, or lend a work.
- Intellectual Property Anything that is owned by a copyright holder.
- Piracy The crime of using someone else’s intellectual property in a way that should be reserved for the copyright holder.
- Fair Use An exception to copyright law that allows short excerpts of a copyrighted work to be used for purposes that benefit the public.
- Public Domain Works whose copyrights have expired and are free for anyone to reproduce, display, and make derivatives.
- Proprietary Software Any software where the publisher retains intellectual property rights to the source code.
- Open-source Software Software where anyone can inspect, enhance, and modify the source code.
- Patent A license given by a government that provides inventors a temporary monopoly on their invention.
- Trademark Any word, picture, or symbol that’s used to distinguish a good from other similar goods.
- Privacy Expectation A reasonable belief that personal information collected by an information system is controlled and protected, not shared or used beyond its original intent.
Topics Discussed:
- How do businesses use data to make informed decisions and to use their resources more efficiently?
- How can I protect my intellectual property? How can I protect the intellectual property of others?
- How much privacy do you personally expect when using the Internet?
Assignment:
- Access the TestOut Courseware through the provided link.
- Study Section 4.2: Data, and achieve a score of 80% or higher on the 10 question Exam to complete the Section.
Assigned: January 8th, 2020
Teacher Pacing Due Date: January 9th, 2020
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