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Digital Technology study guides
CCEA-A-LEVEL Β· A-Level (CCEA) Β· aligned to CCEA.
- CCEA A-Level Digital Technology A2 1 Information Systems: a complete overview of networks, databases, AI, cloud and the law
A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Digital Technology guide to the A2 1 Information Systems unit. Covers computer networks, protocols and transmission, relational databases with normalisation, SQL and query by example, database optimisation and security, artificial intelligence and expert systems, cloud and mobile technologies, data mining and big data, and the legal, moral and ethical issues.
π 17 min readCCEA - CCEA A-Level Digital Technology A2 2 Application Development (Case Study): a complete overview of the coursework unit
A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Digital Technology guide to the A2 2 Application Development case study unit. Covers how to analyse the set scenario, design the data, interface, processing and tests, build the application, test it methodically and evaluate it against the requirements, all documented to the CCEA assessment criteria.
π 13 min readCCEA - CCEA A-Level Digital Technology AS 1 Approaches to Systems Development: a complete overview of the life cycle, methodologies, testing and documentation
A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Digital Technology guide to the AS 1 Approaches to Systems Development unit. Covers the systems development life cycle, development methodologies, feasibility and requirements, system design, implementation and changeover, testing, documentation, fact-finding and maintenance, with the concepts CCEA examines.
π 16 min readCCEA - CCEA A-Level Digital Technology AS 2 Fundamentals of Digital Technology: a complete overview of data representation, architecture, software and the user interface
A deep-dive CCEA A-Level Digital Technology guide to the AS 2 Fundamentals of Digital Technology unit. Covers data representation in binary and hexadecimal, computer architecture and the fetch-decode-execute cycle, memory and storage hardware, system and application software, the user interface and HCI, and data, information, validation and verification.
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