Assignment title: Information


Scenario Acme Toys, Inc. is a leading toy manufacturer. As part of its expansion plan, it purchased a new building for its headquarters, which will house all the departments of the company. Apart from the usual departments, such as marketing, sales (with telemarketing capability), accounting, and IT, the building will also house the R&D, manufacturing, and distribution departments. The company wants to set up a network to enable employees to communicate and share resources. The company requires workstations and server computers. The servers should provide support for: • A multiuser environment • Multiple processors • Various types of applications • High security • High memory requirements In addition, the network should be able to support high-level, multiuser applications that will run simultaneously. The profiles of employees range from a sales executive who is not computer savvy to IT professionals and people in the R&D department who are technology savvy. Due to the diverse user profiles, the company also needs to consider the ease of use of the OS. The IT department is in the process of designing the processing requirements of computers. Although the entire company will be networked, a separate network is required for the R&D department because of security reasons. In addition, the manufacturing department plans to expand its network within the next six months by fifty percent. As a member of the IT team, you need to recommend the best OSs for workstations and servers on the network. You need to consider the ease of use of various OSs based on user profiles. Your report must provide a rationale for the proposed OS and compatibility issues, if any, if you propose using multiple OSs. Part 1—Identifying Network Requirements and OS Implementation Using the South University Online library and the Internet, research various OSs. Based on your research, create a report in a 3- to 4-page Microsoft Word document to complete the following tasks: • Identify and describe in detail the requirements for Acme Toys Inc. Make sure that you include the different requirements for workstations and servers. • Identify the requirements an OS and architecture implementation must address. Include details about hardware, software, security, memory, and different types of users. Discuss resource needs to be managed by the OS, architecture, distributed operated systems, whether there is a need for a GUI, and windowing. Support your responses with examples. Cite any sources in APA format. Course Project Part 2—Choosing an Operating System Continuing with the course project you started in Week 1, this week, you will analyze three different OSs for each requirement, for both the servers and workstations. You will identify the OS that best fits the situation, and include the rationale for the choice made. Continuing with the Microsoft Word document you started in Week 1, add a 2- to 3-page report to complete the following tasks: • Analyze three different OSs for each of the requirements identified in Week 1 for both workstations and servers. Describe in depth how each OS applies to each requirement of Acme Toys, Inc. and whether or not it would fit the situation. • For each OS listed, describe IPC, multiprocessing, threads, and hardware support. Support your responses with examples. Cite any sources in APA format. Course Project Part 3—Network and Multiprocessor Support This assignment combines what you have worked on for Acme Toys Inc. in Weeks 1 and 2. Now that you have read about networking support and multiprocessor support, analyze again the requirements described for Acme Toys Inc. Based on the feedback received from your instructor on W1 Assignment 3 and W2 Assignment 2 and the new readings in Week 3, complete the following tasks in a Microsoft Word document: • Create a revised version of the Microsoft Word document that identifies the requirements for Acme Toys Inc., along with the requirements an OS implementation must address. New topics to include in the discussion this week are the role of OSs in networks, multiprocessor systems, synchronization and resource management, and scheduling. • Analyze three different OSs for workstations and servers that can meet the needs of Acme Toys Inc. If there are any you examine that will not meet the needs, explain where they fall short. Provide details on how each choice meets each requirement. • Ensure that your discussion includes comments about the architecture, hardware support, communications, process and threads, network support, and multiprocessor support. Support your responses with specific examples. Cite any sources in APA format. Course Project Part 4—Memory Management and Virtual Memory Continuing with the course project, this week, you will study how various OSs perform memory management and provide support for virtual memory. Tasks Using the South University Online Library or the Internet, research memory management, virtual memory of OSs, deadlock modeling, and distributed OSs. Based on your research, complete the following tasks: • For the scenario at Acme Toys Inc. described in Week 1, read the requirements again. In the Microsoft Word document from W3 Assignment 2, to your analysis of OSs (three OSs for workstations and servers), add to the discussion with regard to memory management, virtual memory, deadlock modeling, and distributed OSs. Support your analysis with reasons. • For each listed OS, discuss the requirements for size of virtual and physical memories. Support your responses with examples. Cite any sources in APA format.