This course is a prerequisite for Quality Assurance Professionals in which students will understand computer software application architecture and fundamentals of a variety of computer software. Upon completing this course, students will be able to proceed into the Quality Assurance Professionals course. This course is designed to bring students up to speed quickly with the fundamentals necessary to enter the Quality Assurance Professionals course. This course reinforces students’ knowledge of computer basics through more advance concepts needed to progress to Manual Software Testing. Emphasis is on Networking, Web Development and Database. Modules include fundamentals of computer software, fundamentals of operating system, Computer Software and Application Architecture. Students will learn much needed key IT concepts. Hands-on exercises will cover writing simple Web Sites and Design and query Databases.