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Q1.1 : Choose an organization of your liking as the point of study for this disc

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Question

Q1.1 : Choose an organization of your liking as the point of study for this discussion. It can be your own organization where you are currently employed or any other organization.

Study their current IT resources carefully and answer two of the following questions in your discussion post.

Task:

1. List and describe any three major entities in the organization database with their primary key.

2. Describe any three IT resources that may be shared on the organization intranet.

Q1.2: Discuss the reason, why the flash memory is not suitable to use as main memory?

Explanation / Answer

Q1.1
Ans 1.

An organization consists of people with different responsibilities to do jobs in team fashion. Following are the three major entity of organization

Person - It represents a person ie employee of the organization. Fields are Id(primary key), FirstName, LastName, MobileNo, Address, DateOfJoining, DateOfBirth etc.

Team - It represents a team for a particular project/work of the organization. Fields are Id(primary Key), TeamName, TeamDesc, ParentTeamId (points to another row in the same table), TeamLeadId(points to a row of Person table)

Position - This represents a position within a team. Fields are Id(primary key), PositionName, TeamId(points to a row of team table), PersonId(points to a row of person table), etc

Ans 2.
Following IT Resources can be shared of intranet

1. Soft Documents, manual etc - Operational manual, pdf document, e-books are useful resources and should be in a centralized location and to be shared through intranet.
2. Printer, Fax, Scanner, human - These are some physical resources
3. Databases, networks and Software packages and Applications - These are backbone of the IT operation.

Q1.2
Ans .
Access time of flash memory is more, so it is not suitable to use as main memory. RAM(Random Access Memory) is used as main memory normally. More the size of RAM, more the speed.