The extranet is designed for mainly linking different locations of the organisations together also being able to let suppliers be able to access certain files such as databases and stock levels so that they can supply the organisations in this case the work shop information can be accessed them if allowed and given a passwords. The internet is for customers buying online and for recruitment and promotion of the organisations, in the main webpage they can have organisation history and feedback forms for market research.
(iii)
Bandwidth is the amount of data that can be transmitted within a certain amount of time, in example speed and capacity is the issue. The reason an upgrade will be suitable for the organisation is that if the bandwidth is increased the organisation performance will increase they will have more speed to access the internet and communication will be made much faster including the back up of data.
(iv)
Security is important to protect important data in the organisation and out side thieves. Log on names and passwords should allocated and also be able to protect their data and ideas from corporate sabotage. This is one reason and it makes the workers safe and feels good. (Maslows Hierarchy of needs). Licensing is important if they are going to install software they need to buy licenses for every machine in the network, other wise they will be breaking the (copyright Act 1985 – renewed 1993) and they need to protect people’s information and comply with the (Data protection Act 1994 and renewed 1998).
Q2.)
In this case I would recommend a machine that is fast long lasting and that has as much random access memory to run the latest software. This machine will be reliable.
The machine I recommend is a Dell Pentium 4 for Microprocessor Server, 80 -160 Gigabytes,1024 Ram and 3.2Ghz Speed Clock, with a 15inch Tft flat Screen.
The reason I recommend such a computer is that in this case a software producing company they need a very fast computer with much ram as possible to run the software, in example Cad and 3d Studio max are software to design graphics in enhanced mode for organisations for building, they take a lot of memory and speed to execute, this is why I recommended this. Another reason for a huge hard drive is the Raid feature it will back up the organisations work at the end of each day in the network. This is important for an iterative approach which is important in management information system.
I would recommend all the design software, such as CAD,3D studio Max and Maya for designing workshops, I would recommend Norton Antivirus Internet and Firewall Security for protection against hackers and unlawful users. Setting passwords and have an administrator to run the machine and give it regular check ups.
Q3.)
(ASCII) American Standard Code for Information Interchange, this was designed to translate binary into to text and graphics so that humans could understand computer language. Binary being 1,0 meant nothing to human being and was to complex and difficult to remember so ASCII was invented to translate this in words and make it easier for computers to communicate when runned by a user. Computers then translate words and graphics back to ASCII to understand since computers understand 1,0 (binary). ASCII is the dialogue between computers.
Q.4
They say a picture is a thousand words, if a computer had n o operating system it would be still be functional but only skilled indivuals would no how to work it, everything would be done in command lines, it would like sending us back to the dark ages. Operating systems provide us with a GUI (Graphical User Interface) this is something which gives a picture of the computer and gives us drag and drop features if we did not have this we would be programming everything including drivers to print and we would eventually give up as this is something that needs to be learnt. Disabled people would also be at a disadvantage. Life would be difficult and the computer would have no organisation in it (i.e File Structure).
RAM is the first thing loaded into a computer, RAM has within it ROM (Read Only Memory). This is used to load the BIOS in the computer and the diagnostic start-up, with out this computer cannot load the operating system without the drivers; to do this the drivers need to be saved. The when the operating system is loaded the software is loaded from the RAM is well.
Testing would be an application is in spreadsheet software with out it the data integrity of a spreadsheet would be useless such as formulas and macros. Another would be debugging with out this when spreadsheets are created and go wrong in order to be fixed bugs need to be eliminated and the last is how the spreadsheet interacts with the operating system.
Q5)
The internet is good for promotion, recruiting, market research and productivity of the organisation, it can be helped to boost performance and have self analysis of the organisation. This is very useful, it will give the chance for disabled people to work from home and be able to link organisations together through intranet, extranet and internet. This is great it helps with resource immensely. The drawbacks of the internet are that it costs money to set up, teach and maintain this. If people are going to use the internet wisely they need to be trained well and then monitored if the employees are being disobedient. It could take employees of the task, and make them forget, it causes deskilling when it comes to primary research. If hacking or viruses getting this will lead to more money being wasted on solution, connecting network cots money is well. Leasing an internet line is really unfeasible. The internet as many goods and bads but in this modern day and age, if you want your organisation to expand the internet is the next step, technology is now Wireless based and this is to do with the internet it’s a friend and enemy that will always be there it depends how you implement and benefit from it.
