WEEK 3 : REFLECTIONS ON MIS LECTURE AND SEMINAR

1. REFLECTION ON THE MIS LECTURE AND SEMINAR

THE LECTURE: This weeks lecture was on managing information systems infrastructure and services. The dealt with the whole breadth of infrastructure from systems hardware (personal computers, workstations, servers, mainframes and supercomputers), systems and applications softwares, networks (local area networks (LAN) up to wide area networks (WAN), internet and worldwide web (www) and cloud computing. The lecturer was emphatic that cloud computing is the future. We also dealt with issues and challenges of managing information systems infrastructure such as software obsolence, storage needs, space and facility requirements, energy consumption and demand fluctuations.

THE SEMINAR: The seminar built on the MS Excel excercises we started last week. In this week's seminar we covered excercises on typing and correcting, formatting and formulas. We had assignments on holiday costing, and time sheet analysis.

The seminar was interrupted by fire alarm and we had to shut down abruptly

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