Networks Test

1- Give an example of a firm where you would justify investing on the complete refurbishing of furniture to conform to ergonomic standards. Explain the reason for your choice.
2- What is the role and function of an operating system? Can a computer function without an operating system? Why?
3- A bank offers its clients an electronic service by which they can handle their accounts and another personalized service by which they can have access to safety vaults to store their valuables. What authentication method would you use for each and why? Justify your decisions.
4- What are the advantages and disadvantages of working from home? Give examples of professions that are well suited for teleworking.
5- An airline company has a counter and an office at the airport. At the counter, five employees use their computers for checking in passengers and printing out boarding passes on a special printer, and they are connected to an office at the same airport, where administrative employees work on four computers and share a printer. All the transactions at the airport are connected to the airline’s headquarters downtown, where a sales office comprises six computers and a printer, and an administrative office features four other computers and two printers. All the computers at the headquarters location use a single colour printer for travel brochures.
Design an appropriate network suing clear drawings and connectors, and add a paragraph explaining your rationale for choosing the main hardware elements.

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Assessment #2

INSTRUCTIONS

Read and answer all questions carefully. Answers must be written on a Word file, spell-checked and submitted before the end of the lesson to itgs.sass@gmail.com


Marking criteria
Each question is worth 10 points, with the exception of question 1, which is worth 20 points. 

Assessment criteria include:

• Answering to the point. Read the questions carefully and answer what is asked, not more, not less.
• Clarity and precision of answers.
• Ability to apply the concepts learned revealing good technical knowledge of concepts involved.

Do not include definitions, no credit will be given for definitions. No copy/pasting is allowed, I will check for the originality of your answers.

1. A company sells insurance plans to customers. Its headquarters are located in Capital Federal, and they have there one network that comprises 5 computers in the administration area that share one printer. They also have 3 other computers that are in a small commercial office that sells policies to customers within the same site and that have one printer. There is a file server at this location that hosts all records from customers and that should be accessed by all computers in this central office as well as the other branch. This central office accesses the Internet through a dedicated cablemodem.
   The company also has one commercial office in Olivos, where it sells directly to customers. In the Olivos branch there are 4 computers that are linked using Token Ring sharing a printer, and 3 computers that are used for administration purposes. They all share one colour printer. This branch is connected to the Internet though a cablemodem and needs to instantly access the database in Headquarters. Design a suitable network for this configuration and add any explanation that you think is relevant as to the choices made.
2. A friend of yours has just been appointed as administrator of a school network. He is worried about hacking and issues that have to do with users accessing unauthorized web sites. What measures can he take to prevent those two issues?
3. Discuss the following statement: “Each year, corporations lose substantial amounts of money through poor or inadequate design of elements for the workplace”
4. You are hired to provide advice to an entrepreneur seeking to establish an e-commerce presence of an existing business. What general and specific advice would you give this person with respect to the differences between a standard business and e-commerce and about the profile of the person to hire to run his e-commerce operation?
5. A firm wishes to establish a control system for its employees to access their individual computers and also to gain access to a central server that stores very confidential information on personal data of customers. What access system would you use in each of these cases and why?
6. What type of person would benefit most or least from teleworking?

E-commerce test

Outline the differences between an e-business and a commercial business in each of the following areas:
- Management
- Stock
- Advertisement
- Risks
- Types of products that can be sold.

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