Introduction
What do you do when you get a virus or some other sickness? Hopefully, you seek medical attention! If not, is there a chance you are going to share your illness with others around you? Of course there is! Just as we need medical attention to help us overcome a sickness, computers need attention to clear them of any viruses. Just as we spread sicknesses when we neglect to seek the necessary attention, a computer connected to a network can spread viruses to other computers in that network.
In this lesson, you will learn the importance of computer maintenance. You will also learn methods of preventing viruses and other malware from entering your computer system.
Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
- Perform computer maintenance.
- Diagnose problems related to technology systems and networks.
- Determine strategies to correct malfunctioning networks, hardware, and software.
Enduring Understandings
- It is very important to perform routine maintenance on a computer system and is also important to install preventive software to keep your system safe from common malware.
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Business Technology Applications standards: 3.