Past and current maintenance practices in both private and government sectors would imply that maintenance is the action associated with equipment repair after it is broken. The dictionary defines maintenance as "The work of keeping something in proper condition upkeep"; this would imply that the maintenance should be actions taken to prevent a device or component degradation experienced with the operation of the device to keep it in proper working order.

It is daily maintenance (cleaning, inspection, oiling, and re-tightening) design to retain the healthy condition of equipment and prevent failure through the prevention of deterioration periodic inspection or equipment condition diagnosis to measure deterioration. It is further divided into periodic and predictive maintenance just like humans. It is extended by preventive medicine; the equipment service life can be prolonged by doing preventive maintenance.

System Care Guide – Computer Fundamentals and Application

In this “System Care Guide – Computer Fundamentals and Application” you will learn about the following topics:

  1. Maintenance
  2. Types of Maintenance
  3. Breakdown Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance (1951), Corrective Maintenance, Maintenance Prevention
  4. System Care
  5. System Care Factors
  6. General System Care Factors, Environment Care Factors, Cooling and Ventilation Care Factors, Power Care Factors, Power Problem Protection, Data Loss and Virus Prevention Factors, Data Problem Prevention Factors
  7. Backup
  8. Full Back up, Increment Backups, Partial Backup, Differential Backup
  9. Disaster Recovery
  10. Strategies for Data Protection, Pre-cautionary Measure
  11. Devices and Media
  12. Hard Disk, Floppy Disk, Magnetic Tape, Flash Memory, Optical Disk
  13. External Storage Device
  14. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)
  15. Types of RAID
  16. SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)



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