COMP502 Foundation of IT Infrastructure - Lab 1

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The objectives of the first week are to:

 Become familiar with the AUT computer systems
 The MS Windows login procedure and user interface
 Introduction to using the Web Browser, and AUT internet login
 Introduction to the e-mail system
 Introduction to keyboarding (or improvement of your keyboard skills) Ultrakey
 Learn some basic IT-related terms by using Google search.

Exercises:
1. Send an email to other student of your choice – introducing yourself to e.g. your neighbor.
Include your self-introduction, interests, hobbies and academic background.
2. Check received emails and provide feedback to other student about his/her email (e.g.
language used, appropriate subject and email signature).
3. Start practicing for Typing Exercise (typing report).
4. Use Google Search (https://www.google.co.nz) to search for some IT-related terms.

1 GETTING STARTED
We will start by learning how to log into the AUT computer network.
Once you have succeeded in logging in, you will be able to do the exercises specified in the following
pages.

2 TROUBLE SHOOTING
If you are returning to AUT for further study this semester, then your computer account creation and
internet registration have already been done. Or, you may have already done this in an earlier class this
week. If so, please log in and move on to the next section (C- Using email).
If you are a new student and you haven’t logged into the AUT network before, please follow the
instructions from AUT enrolment confirmation.

3 EXERCISE 1: USING AUT EMAIL TO SEND AND RECEIVE EMAIL

Next to word processing, Electronic Mail (e-mail), is probably the most frequently used application in the
business world. At AUT, it is the primary tool that students and lecturers use to communicate.

Please get into the habit of checking your email every time you log into the computer — often there will
be important messages waiting for a response.

Ask your neighbors for his/her name and AUT email address and let’s start to do some emailing. For
this at the end, at least, you know another person email address to contact.

Today, you will just get a quick look at the basic features of how to:

 Run AUT student web mail,

 Read a message that you have received, and
 Send a message.

Get into your web browser (Internet Explorer, or Firefox), and click on the AUT student web mail link (or
enter the URL).

With the Internet login page displayed (as shown below), enter your username and password to login to
web mail.

Configuring your email:

Before you send a message, set up a “signature” — information about you (Full name, phone number,
student-id …) — that will be appended to every email that you send.

Please create a signature now. It is important that important messages you send to others can be
clearly identified as coming from you and if they need to contact you directly.

Remember: Do not share personal detail such as e.g. home address

Sending a Message

To send a message:

Enter the email address of the person you wish to send the message to:

(e.g. yourlogin@aut.ac.nz) - assuming that you want to send an email to yourself as a test.

Enter a brief description of what the message is about in the “Subject” line. Always do this – Messages
received with no subject (or an irrelevant subject), will typically be blocked or automatically
filtered/deleted without reading.

 Type your message in the space provided.

 Please do a spelling check before you send any message!
 Now click on the “Send Message” button to start the delivery process.
  When you have finished using web mail, log off by clicking on the logout button.

Reading your email

To read your email messages, you need to get into your Internet browser (e.g. Internet Explorer), and:

 If you are at AUT, type webmail into the address/URL field.

 Enter your AUT login name, and your login/Internet password, in order to access your mailbox.
 When you have read a message, you may reply to it, delete it, or move it to another folder.

4 EXERCISE 2: USING ULTRA KEY TO IMPROVE YOUR KEYBOARD SKILLS

If you have no typing skills, or you are limited to one or two fingers, then UltraKey will be a BIG help!

Click on the start button, select programs from the menu, and then click on UltraKey. Or you can search
for UltraKey.

Click on the “OK” button to get

started.

Assuming that you have not used

UltraKey before, click on “New” to
create a new personal file. Ultrakey,
will “remember” how far you have
progressed, each time you start a new
typing session.
Exercise: Typing Report

Your objective is to achieve 30+ words

per minute with 98% accuracy by the
end of week 8.

When you have reached that

standard, do a Challenger Skills Check
(3 paragraphs), print out an UltraKey
report, and present it to your lecturer.

Spend a few minutes now, just to get

the feel of it. If you are not a touch typist, you will need to spend at least 20 minutes per day, for several
weeks to achieve the required target.

You can also use http://play.typeracer.com/ to learn how to type and race with your class-mates.

5 EXERCISE 3: USING GOOGLE SEARCH TO FIND ANSWERS FOR THE

FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
Go to https://www.google.co.nz and find out the following information.

You should work in pair, one is searching the net and one is writing down the answers.

 How the Web changed after 2002?

 Ans:
 Who invented the Internet?
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 What is meant by ‘CPU’?
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 What is meant by ‘LASER’?
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 A complete Microcomputer system includes?
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 Processing speed of computer is 3.0GHz, how fast is it?
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 What is ROM?
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 What is RAM
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 What does BIOS means?
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 What is an IC?
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 Name some popular Internet Browsing Software (web browsers)?
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 What is Windows?
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 What is UNIX?
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 What is the meaning of FAT?
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 What is the elaboration of VOIP?
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 Name the three generations of computer systems and briefly explain them.
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 Write some common output devices of computer.
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 Give some Example of programming language.
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 How can we represent data in computer systems?
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 What is WIFI?
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 What is Cyber Super Weapon?
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 What is CRT?
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 What is LCD?
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 What is HTML?
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 What is DOS stands for?
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 What is computer networking?
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 What does ‘System Software’ Includes?
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 What is the other name of ‘Main Memory’?
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 What is ASCII?
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 What is the name of the base 8 number system?
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 Who is the inventor of punch card?
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 What kind of device is Monitor?
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 How many popularity social media do we have (you can represent them and their popularity
by using a graph)?
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 What is ‘OCR’?
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 What is Computer Virus?
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 Two types of commonly used printers are?
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 Write the name of different computer storage device.
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 What is the meaning of ‘CC’ and ‘BCC’ in case of E-mail and what is their difference?
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 The word ‘Computer’ is derived from?
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 What is Adobe Photoshop?
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 What is the name of the first Computer Network?
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 What is the number of Computer Generation?
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 What is an IP?
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 What is your IP Address?
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 Where (country, city) is the IP Address 125.111.5.4
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 A CD-ROM drive is labelled with 52X, what does 52X mean?
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 Data transfer rate of a Dial-up Modem is measured in?
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 The most distinctive difference between in LAN and a WAN is?
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 Which of the following components (Hard Disk, Compact disk, RAM) is fastest?
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 Which kind of number system does the computer use in operations?
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 In Windows, the command ‘Shift + Delete’ will send the file to the?
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 In Windows, the ‘add or remove programs’ utility can be found in
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 One Megabyte is equal to how many bytes
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 What is the name of the base 16 number system?
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 What does HTML stands for?
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 What does HTTP stands for?
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 What does SMTP stands for?
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 How do I clear my Internet browser history?
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 How to get into Windows Safe Mode?
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6 EXERCISE 4: DECIMAL, BINARY, OCTAL AND HEXADECIMAL

Go to https://www.google.co.nz and find out some information related to Decimal, Binary, Octal and
Hexadecimal concepts in computer systems.