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"Recap" Please respond to the following: When you started this course you may have known some basic principles, but now you have a solid foundation to tackle many different problems. Discuss the following topics: • Describe how the course met your expectations. • Discuss your feelings about your progress in the course. Indicate whether or not you are surprised with your progress. • Identify and discuss one concept that you wish you understood better. • Provide advice to a student starting this class next term. ...

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IFSM 310 Software and Hardware Infrastructure Concepts Computer and Number Systems 1. (10 pt) You have been hired to develop a website-based sales system for a large international retail firm. List and describe at least four features that are specific to the Web design of your system and customer service important to consider if your system is to be successful at attracting and keeping customers living outside of the US. Include not only characteristics of the user interface, but those issues that must be uniquely addressed to successfully service your non-US customers. 2. (2.5 pt each) In order to receive credit for these problems, you must show all of the steps you took to arrive at your answers. (c) Convert the following decimal number to binary: 21842 (d) Convert the following binary number to decimal: 11000111011.101 (c) Convert the following hexadecimal number to decimal: CA97 (d) Convert the following binary number to hexadecimal: 1110011111011010100 CPU and Memory 3. (10 pt) ASCII, Unicode, and EBCDIC are, of course, not the only numeric / character codes. The Sophomites from the planet Collegium use the rather strange code shown in the Figure below. There are only thirteen characters in the Sophomite alphabet, and each character uses a 5-bit code. In addition, there are four numeric digits, since the Sophomites use base 4 for their arithmetic. Given the following Sophomite sequence, what is the corresponding binary message being sent by the Sophomites? (HINT: Decode the sequence reading from left to right then write the corresponding binary sequence, leaving a space between each binary sequence.) 4. (10 pt) Define memory cache write-through and write-back techniques and describe the advantages and disadvantages of each. Input / Output 5. Answer the follow questions about interrupts. a. (5 pt) Describe in detail the steps that occur when a system receives an interrupt. b. (5 pt) Describe how these steps differ in the case when a system receives multiple interrupts Computer Systems 6. Answer the following questions about clusters. a. (5 pt) Describe how you might use a cluster to provide fault-tolerant computing b. (5 pt) Describe how you might use a cluster architecture to provide rapid scalability for a Web-based company experiencing rapid growth. Networks 7. Answer the following questions about communication protocols. a. (5 pt) Using the operations of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) as a basis, carefully explain the difference between connectionless and connection-oriented communication. b. (5 pt) If you were ordering a number of items from an online seller, such as amazon.com, which Protocol (TCP or UDP) would you recommend and explain why . 8. In the context of network security, a. (3 pt) exp.

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