HARDWARE PROJECT

20% Part A: Formatting

Create a Word document.  Unless a problem explicitly says otherwise, the problems in Part B should be answered in that document, which you will hand in attached to your blackboard submission.  Use the following appropriately to format your document using Word's built-in tools

• at least three sections with headings (Heading 1), at least one of which has at least two subsections with headings (Heading 2)

• at least two footnotes (or endnotes)

• an automatically generated table of contents

• SmartArt illustrating at least one of your answers

Credit will only be given for using this formatting appropriately to format your answers for part B, just adding a separate part of the document with unrelated text and the required formatting will not get any credit for part A.

80% Part B: Concepts

1. When you are having trouble with a computer, it is often suggested you turn it off and then back on again.  Why would this work?  Why isn't the computer in just as bad a state when it starts up again?

2. Draw the hardware diagram we covered in class with all parts labeled. Remember to expand acronyms such as CPU.

You may choose to do this by hand-drawing and taking a picture or scanning, and then pasting your picture into your main Word document.  Legibility does matter; I will mark anything I cannot read as wrong. 

You may instead do this drawing using shapes, SmartArt, or drawing in Word or Powerpoint to create your diagram (you may want to skip ahead in Skills for Success or do a MyLab tutorial early if you want to learn more of how to make pictures in these programs. If you choose to do this, you may hand this problem in as a separate document, attached to the SAME SUBMISSION as your main Word document (or in the same document, whichever you prefer). 

3. For this Instruction cycle problem describe step by step what the hardware shown would do during the next 2 instruction cycles (note that the sheet says to do one, but you are doing TWO for this project).

4. Compare and contrast the following types of storage: Electrical, Magnetic (Hard Disk Drive), Solid State, and Optical.

5. Suppose I have a large collection of video files, each of which is 910 MB in size.

• How many whole videos would fit on a 9GB thumb drive?

• How many on a 530 GB hard drive?

• How many on a 2 TB hard drive?

In order to find these, you need to convert units, so that you know how many MB each storage option can hold.    To figure this out, consider: if 1 GB has 1000 MB then 2 GB has how many MB?  What operation did you do to figure that out?  ( I will accept the math done with either 1000 or 1024 (which is more correct)).

To find how many files will fit, consider: if I had 2000 MB, and each file was 500 MB, how many files would fit?  What operation did you do to figure that out?

Your final result should be a whole number -- for example 5.7 is not a number of whole videos.  5 is.