This unit defines the competency required to operate a personal computer, including starting the PC, logging in, using and understanding desktop icons and their links to underlying programs, navigating a directory structure, saving work, printing, closing down the PC.

This unit defines the competency required to configure, use and optimise a computer operating system.

This unit defines the competency required to determine, select and correctly operate basic computer hardware, generally known as peripherals and which may include input/output devices and secondary memory.