Service and Delivery
Knowledge Element: Basic PC architecture
Definition of Knowledge Element:
Understand the general construction of a PC and the main sub components.
A very brief summary of the Knowledge:
Non provided.
Select the text below for further study material:
An illustrated guide to PC hardware and Architecture
A summary of expert opinion:
The knowledge named 'Basic PC architecture' is considered to be quite important.
In addition, the knowledge is thought to be easy to replace, it is mostly learned by study, and Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts.
It is also knowledge mostly used generally, and generally stable knowledge.
See Parameter table below for more detail.
Risk:
This knowledge element has a risk value of 2.88, whilst the average risk for the whole knowledge structure is 4.862. Consult the RISK page for more details.
Knowledge linked by learning dependency:
| Installing PC hardware | Detailed PC architecture |
| Basic PC architecture | |
|---|---|
Postrequisite knowledge implies that Basic PC architecture must be understood before for a person can gain a full understanding of the knowledge listed in the top row of the Linked Knowledge table.
Basic PC architecture has no prerequisite knowledge items and is therefore known as a leaf node. A leaf node is knowledge that has not been investigated further when the map was constructed.
Parameters assigned for Basic PC architecture.
| Identifier | Name | Value | Clarifier | Weight | Study Mean |
P1 |
Importance |
5.0 |
quite important |
1.0 |
6.34 |
P2 |
Recovery |
0.0 |
easy to replace |
1.0 |
3.38 |
P3 |
Study-Exp |
2.0 |
mostly learned by study |
1.0 |
3.46 |
P4 |
Known By |
5.0 |
Between 30% and 60% of Group are Experts |
-1.0 |
2.80 |
P6 |
Specialised |
3.0 |
knowledge mostly used generally |
1.0 |
5.05 |
P7 |
Stability |
8.0 |
generally stable knowledge |
-0.7 |
6.41 |
People Involved with Basic PC architecture:
| Person | Expert | Capable | Responsible | N S Jones | --- |
Yes |
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S P Evans | --- |
Yes |
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M A Smith | --- |
Yes |
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E N Roberts | --- |
Yes |
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A A Pendragon | Yes |
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Computed Similarity
The most similar node to Basic PC architecture is PC hardware fitting techniques.
The most dissimilar node to Basic PC architecture is Customer Services.