What ergonomics means, the health hazards of prolonged computer use such as RSI and CVS, and the safety precautions and workstation setup that prevent them.

How data is organized into tables, fields and records inside a database, the Entity-Relationship model, and the different types of relationships between tables.

What a DBMS is and its main objectives, the difference between flat-file and relational databases, and the role of SQL as a database language.

What defines a project, the project management life cycle from initiation to closure, and the qualities that make an effective project manager and team.

How PERT charts and Gantt charts are used to schedule and track a project, worked examples of both, and the key differences between them.

What an algorithm is, the characteristics of a good algorithm, and the three main ways to represent one: structured English, flow charts and pseudocode.

How variables and constants are declared in pseudocode, the basic input/output/assignment instructions, and the three algorithmic control structures: sequence, selection and repetition.

The difference between low-level and high-level programming languages, how assemblers, compilers and interpreters translate code, and the types of programming errors.

Why C is used, the software needed to write and run a C program, and how to declare variables and read/write input and output with scanf and printf.

The arithmetic, relational and logical operators used in C, how to write IF/ELSE conditional statements, and the three main loop types: FOR, WHILE and DO…WHILE.