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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0685.00001.] The author characterizes compact and Fredholm operators [in the sense of \textit{A. S. Mishchenko} and \textit{A. T. Fomenko}, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 43, 831-859 (1979; Zbl 0416.46052)] on the Hilbert module \(H=\ell_ 2(A)\), where \(A\) is the \(C^*\)-algebra \(C(X)\) of all continuous, complex-valued functions on a compact space \(X\). There exists an isomorphism \(G: \text{End}_ A(H)\to C(X, \text{End}_{\mathbb{C}}(\ell^ 2(\mathbb{C}))\) uniquely determined by \(G(B)(x)\circ\delta_ x= \delta_ x\circ B\) for all \(x\in X\); here \(\text{End}_{\mathbb{C}}(\ell^ 2(\mathbb{C}))\) is endowed with the strong operator topology. The author proves for \(B\in\text{End}_ A(H)\): (a) \(B\) is compact iff \(G(B)\) takes values in the compact operators on \(\ell^ 2(\mathbb{C})\) and is continuous in the uniform operator topology, and (b) \(B\) is a Fredholm operator iff \(G(B)\) takes values in the Fredholm operators on \(\ell^ 2(\mathbb{C})\) and is continuous in a certain locally convex topology on \(\text{End}_{\mathbb{C}}\ell^ 2(\mathbb{C})\) which is stronger than the strong operator topology.