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Recommended Hardware/ Software
Information Support and Services High School |
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| Hardware | Software** |
| PC's
& Laptops * Monitors CD-ROM Hard Drive 128 Mb RAM Network Card Intel-based Plug & Play Extra Memory Extra Hard Drives Printers Modems UPS Server for LAN PC Teleconferencing (Intel/PictureTel, Vtel) Extra hard drives for Backup storage or RAID system (Internal or external; Procom, EMC, HP, Compaq, IBM) Network Equipment For LAN/WAN (3Com, Nortel, Intel, HP, Cisco) - see note |
Word
Processing (Microsoft, Lotus, Corel) Database (Microsoft, Lotus, Corel) Spreadsheet (Microsoft, Lotus, Corel) Publishing (Microsoft, Lotus, Corel) Presentation (Microsoft, Lotus, Corel) Internet Software (Microsoft, Netscape) Email (Microsoft, Lotus, Corel) Operating System (Windows) Web Developer (Microsoft, Netscape) Network Operation System (Nt/Win2000, Novell, Linux) Backup/Storage Management (Computer Associates, HP, IBM, Compaq, Network Associates, Seagate) Telecommunications (NEC, Adtran, Proxm) Anti-Virus Software (Norton, McAfee, CA, Netscape) Scheduling Software (can use publishing software) System Management (Microsoft, Novell, CA, HP, 3Com, Cisco, Intel, IBM, Nortel, Netscape) |
| Recommendations: | |
| Various wiring and Cabling media (20.4) | Project Management Software (Lotus, Mainstay, Visio, Microsoft, Symantec, Time Line) |
| Fiber splicer (49.7) | |
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Associate
Degree
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| All of the items listed under high school plus the following: | |
| Network
test Equipment (Datron, Microtest, HP) Cabling: Fiber Optics Twisted Pair Cable Wireless And tools to terminate Cross connect equipment Fiber splicer |
Application
Developer (Visual Basic, Powersoft, Java) CASE Source Code (Basic, C, C++, Cobol, RPG) Firewall Security (CA, Cisco, Alta Vista, Microsoft, Netscape, Novell) UPS Software (CA, Lotus, Compaq, HP, IBM, Novell) RDBMS (Sybase, CA, Dbase, Rbase, Fox Base) Data Warehousing (CA, Lotus, Microsoft, Novell, Wall Data) Data Transfer (LapLink, Tranxition, MicroTech, DataViz) Remote Monitoring (Microsoft, HP, Intel, CA) Directory Services (Microsoft, Novell) Project Management (Lotus, Mainstay, Visio, Microsoft, Time Line, Symantec) |
| Recommendations: | |
| Access
to a mainframe (Introductory only; 25.4) Parallel computers (Introductory only; 7.13) Network Analyzer (HP, Wiltron, Network General, Novell) (Introductory only; 49.4) * Gartner Group Enterprise Tier 1 Manufacturer (IBM, Compaq, HP, Dell) |
** Server and client versions |
| Note: Network equipment can be a combination of hubs, routers, switches and muxes, based upon your particular configuration and required capabilities. | |