Basic computer organization, overview of computer components, properties of peripheral devices, processes management, physical and virtual memory management techniques, resource allocation and protection.

User view of system resources, file systems and operations, start-up, configuration files, software installation, dependencies, deinstallation, simple scripts, batch files, and account management basics. Recommended: Take concurrently with ITC 190.

Computing system (computation, networking, storage) components and organization; real and virtual systems; administration tasks and utilization of networked systems.