Role of Computer Systems in Various Environments Essay

Computer System

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
P1.1 Role of computer systems in various environments.......................................................1
P1.2 Hardware and application software as well as peripheral components of a computer
system.....................................................................................................................................2
P1.3 Different types of computer systems..............................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
P2.1 System design specification for meeting the SYNERGY needs....................................4
P2.2 Suitability of a system design specification for SYNERGY group...............................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
P3.1 Building and configuring a computer system to meet SYNERGY’s Design Specification
................................................................................................................................................7
P3.2 Test planning and documentation of a SYNERGY’s computer system showing clearly
your test outcomes................................................................................................................21
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................22
P4.1 Performance of routine maintenance on computer systems.........................................22
P4.2 Upgrading the hardware and software on a computer system for SYNERGY’s computer
system...................................................................................................................................22
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................23
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................24

ILLUSTRATION INDEX
Illustration 1: BIOS configuration...................................................................................................7
Illustration 2: Creating booting device............................................................................................8
Illustration 3: Setting up details.......................................................................................................9
Illustration 4: Mode of installation................................................................................................11
Illustration 5: Allocation of space..................................................................................................12
Illustration 6: User configuration...................................................................................................14
Illustration 7: Setting Password.....................................................................................................15
Illustration 8: Activation of OS......................................................................................................15
Illustration 9: Date and time configuration....................................................................................16
Illustration 10: Network configuration..........................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
Computers are becoming one of the most integral parts in every aspect of various
operations that have been taken into condensation by people. From education to medical
research, computers have found their effective use in almost every sphere of daily life. Thus,
computers play an integral role in the day to day operations of people (Pagan, 2016). For this
report, SYNERGY group has been taken as the organisation of context. It works in the
recruitment sector. This report will cover the details of importance of computers in various
environment along with the configurations of its peripherals and various components. Besides
this, an appropriate system set up will be discussed for the cited firm that helps in effective
management of various operations of company (Bayer and et.al., 2014). Other than this, the
better management of the different operations like up gradation and development of the better
system is discussed.
TASK 1
P1.1 Role of computer systems in various environments
The computer plays a vital and crucial role in various environment and helps in effective
management of various operations that helps in better handling of different functions. With the
passage of time, computers have found their usage in variety of fields from education and
learning to defence as well as space science. Some basic operations or fields where computers
play a crucial role are as follows:
 Education and learning: The computers in recent decade have played a crucial and
vital role in the development of knowledge and various learning methods that help in the
better handling of various operations at schools, colleges and universities. It helps
teachers, lecturers and trainers to develop a better study material to meet requirements of
students and fulfil them in a very effective way. This leads to the development of various
interactive tools and measures, perform assessments and give effective feedbacks.
 Medicine: The effective use of various computer systems will help in better management
of the various medical operations and activities. It does not help in the visualisation and
creating the simulations for the various operations, but also different types of
computational devices such as ECG, MRI and CT scan that help in the effective
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diagnosis and detection of various diseases and finding of their appropriate cure (Picinich
and et.al., 2014).
 Offices: The computer has found its use extensively in various offices. From IT to
consultation and recruitment, computers are playing the significant role in the effective
management of the various operations that helps in the effective rise in the efficiency and
effectiveness of different functions. Besides this, computers help in performing the
various crucial and effort oriented tasks such as account management, financial analysis,
data keeping, resource handling that requires high skills and calculation or computational
capabilities.
 Research and development: Computers have emerged as an effective tool for
conducting the deep research and development process in organisation and other than
this, it helps researchers to find, analyse, evaluate and store various data or information
that is found or discovered by them. Other than this, it leads to better handling of the
various operations related to the research processes (Bohnet and Doellner, 2015).
P1.2 Hardware and application software as well as peripheral components of a computer system
The computer system is made of various constituent parts or components that helps it to
perform specified tasks. These components or constituent parts help computer system to carry
out various operations in a very effective way, and makes its usage more easy and efficient for
users. The computer system is mainly constituent of three basic components i.e. Hardware,
Software and Peripheral Components. The combination of these three helps in the effective
handling of the different operations in various fields. The various basic components of computer
system are as follows:
 Hardware: The hardware consists of tangible or touchable part of a computer system.
This ispart ofcomputer system that can be touched, used and felt by user. It forms body of
computer and consists of various parts such as input unit including keyboard, processing
unit consists of central processing unit or CPU and the output device or the display
consisting of monitor (Tsirkin and Wright, 2015). It performs basic and core operation of
computer i.e. taking in the input data from the input devices, processing them in the
processing unit of computer and display outcome or information through output devices.
Besides this, it involves a pointing device that helps in the effective management of
various operations and helps in the pointing or highlighting of the particular task, phrase
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or operations. Besides this, it also includes the storage devices that helps in the effective
storage of various operations and helps them to access in the future.
 Application Software: The software act as soul of computer system. It acts as interlink
or platform on which various computational operations are been held. In the computer
system, there are basically two types of software that being used i.e. System Software and
Application Software. The system software forms platform for various applications to
run. For instance: the operating system of computer. On other hand, application software
are the effective set of various programs that helps in better management of various
operations and are developed to perform a certain task. For instance: MS Word, MS
office, Open Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc. This application software helps in better
management of the various operations that are taken into consideration by user (Van Riel,
2014).
 Peripherals: The peripherals are basically the external components that are added in a
computer system to perform a specific task. They form the combination of the specific
software and hardware as well as execute a specific task. For example: Webcams,
microphone, printer, etc. They are connected to the main system of computer by various
means such as wired cables or wireless methods. Besides this, it also involves the various
networking devices or components such as LAN cables, routers, modem, etc.
P1.3 Different types of computer systems
With the advancement of IT and computational field, various types of computer systems
come into the practice or usage. This computer system helps in the effective functioning of the
various operation and thus, has the different kinds of computational capacity (Pai and et.al.
2014). Some different types of computer systems are as follows:
 Mainframes or minicomputers: This consists of the basic structure of the computer
system and helps in meeting it in a very effective manner. They have high computational
and storage capacity. They can perform and process high volume of data in the minimum
required time. Besides this, the efficient management of various operations helps in the
better management of the large amount of calculation. These types of systems are
basically used by universities, banks and big organisations to manage a large amount of
data, carry out their complex calculations and store huge volume of information
generated.
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