AS Units

Unit 1: Information, Systems and Applications

-          Data, information, knowledge and processing

-          Software and hardware components of an information system

-          Characteristics of standard applications software and application areas

-          Spreadsheet concepts

-          Relational database concepts

-          Applications software used for presentation and communication of data

-          The role and impact of ICT – legal, moral and social issues

Unit 2: Structured ICT Tasks

-          Design

-          Software development

-          Testing

-          Documentation

A2 Units

Unit 3: ICT Systems, Applications and Implications

-          The systems cycle

-          Designing computer based information systems

-          Networks and communications

-          Applications of ICT

-          Implementing computer-based information systems

-          Implications of ICT

Unit 4: ICT Project

-          Definition, investigation and analysis

-          Design

-          Software development, testing and installation

-          Documentation

-          Evaluation

(Taken from the OCR GCE ICT Specification 2008)