How Computers Work - P2

The Processor - Part 2

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Description

If you work in the Technology industry or plan to, and don’t have an Electrical Engineering or Computer Science background, this ~120-minute course could be the most valuable training of your career.


Understanding how a computer works provides numerous advantages to the IT professional. For example:

  • Familiarity with terminology and concepts that might otherwise be a complete enigma.

  • Ability to communicate more effectively, gain credibility, and influence others.

  • Improved technical program management capability.

  • Career path options that might otherwise not be available.

  • Technical understanding upon which additional knowledge can be built.


The fields of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science are incredibly broad and incredibly deep.

  • The key to learning how a computer works quickly is to become familiar with just the right detail about just the right topics so you can quickly understand how a computer actually works.


How Computers Work” training quickly describes the primary function of every computer and provides you with an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage.


F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Our lives are defined by our opportunities. Even the ones we miss.”


If you want to understand how a computer works quickly to gain a significant competitive advantage, you’ll want to complete this unique learning experience.

What You Will Learn!

  • Learn just enough about Electricity, Transistors, Logic Gates, and Binary Numbers to understand Processor Building Blocks (e.g. Clock, Cache, Controller).
  • Learn Instruction Execution to understand what every Processor does and review the specifications of two example Processors.
  • Learn what each Processor Building Block does to understand Instruction Execution which is the primary function of every computer.
  • Learn what Software actually is and some of what it does as well as how to learn more about Software.

Who Should Attend!

  • The course is for students or Technology professionals without an Electrical Engineering or Computer Science background who want to understand how a computer actually works