MSIT 526 Assignments
Note tentative and subject to change

Assignment One

Assignment Two Research Topics due 20 September 2005



Assignment Four- due 11 October 2005
Research on the web different companies who sell motherboards and CPU. Create a memo that provides your recommendations. Your memo should include pricing for no more than 3 alternatives along with some of major technical specifications (ie processor speed, integrated board, manufacturer). It is suggested that you rank your suggestions in order of highest recommendation to lowest, you might also want to include a small paragraph justifying your recommendation's.

For assistance you can refer to Understanding your motherboard and How to buy a motherboard and more advice on buying a motherboard

Here are some sites that sell motherboards (or sometimes referred to as MOBOs)

http://www.microcenter.com/specials/promo_offers.html
http://www.computer-smarts.com/mbmenu.html
http://www6.tomshardware.com/
http://www.intel.com/
http://www.amd.com/us-en/

Assignment Five- research paper outline due 11 October 2005

Assignment Six 8 November 2005

Part I
Run Task Manager on your computer (hit control-alt-delete) and select the Task Mgr button. Copy the list of programs running on your computer into word and then describe each of the programs that you have running (can be just a couple words or sentence) you can use WIN PATROL

Part II
Go to www.grc.com and run the shields up program. Copy the open ports results into Word.

Assignment Seven 22 November 2005