CHAPTER

Northern Virginia Community College Alexandria

Instructor: Pablo R. Ibar, M.S.

ITE 221_ 102A (11526) Wednesday Class 10:30 am to 2:10 pm PC HARDWARE AND O/S ARCHITECTURESummer / 2015 First six weekpribar@nvcc.edu

STB Division. Room #362 (Mail Box, available) First 6-Week Session

Last day to drop with tuition refund or change to audit (Census Date)**May 26 Last day to withdraw without grade penalty June 13Class and examinations end June 24 IF CLASSES ARE CANCELED DUE TO EMERGENCIES, PLEASE ACCESS BLACK BOARD FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS, INTRUCTIONS, VIRTUAL LECTURE, AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS.Welcome to PC Hardware and O/S Architecture course at Northern Virginia Community College. This course is a hybrid course where a significant portion of the learning activities are moved online, and time spent in the classroom is reduced but not eliminated. The course blends in-class teaching with online learning. This Hybrid course will meet on the dates assigned. Students will be required to build up a case study project on telecom technologies as the hybrid section of this course.

All students will do a require research projects on material not covered in class. The Instructor will cover main topics related to the course; students are required to study the assigned chapter before class.As a Hybrid course component, students will make up 21 hours with a self lecture and study that match the ITE 221 class objectivesCourse ObjectiveThis is an introductory course that will provide an overview of computer systems architecture. It will teach students von Newman architecture and newer technologies, including microprocessors, data bus, control bus, and address bus, memory management, data representation, storage devices, and functions of the operating system.

Course DescriptionThis course teaches the nature computer organization and architecture. A methodological approach to understand a broad use of technologies will be attained through lectures, self study, exercises, and review questions.Instructional Materials

Systems Architecture. Stephen D. Burd. Six Edition.

ISBN-13: 978-0-538-4733-4ISBN-10: 0-538-4733-1Office HoursBefore class, preferable by appointment. For additional office hours check office hours posting at the Business Division.

Requirements and Evaluation Mid Term

35% Week 4Final Exam

35%Week 6Research Project

15%Weekly PresentationsHYBRID Component

15% Due Week 5Grade Scale: 90-100 A

80-89 B70-79 C60-69 D below 60 FRemember, Hybrid Component and Project will be part of the Mid Term and Final examination. Late projects will be penalized with 25% of the grade. No late projects will be accepted more than a week late

If you copy and paste from any source a grade of zero will be assigned. Academic dishonesty: Cheating (giving or receiving information and the unauthorized use of notes) will result in an automatic grade 0 (zero.)

General Information

For attendance, weather, important dates, safety, grading guidelines, academic integrity and others please, refer to the College Catalog and the Student Guide. Also, most of this information can be found in the Schedule of Classes Summer 2015Important

Special needs and accommodations. Please, let me know if any special problems or needs. If you are seeking Accommodations based on a disability, you should provide a disability data sheet, which can be obtained from the Counselor for special needs. It is your sole responsibility to verify that you are registered in this course. Attendance: It is your responsibility to make up for any missed class lecture. Note that some material covered in class will not appear in the text. Students that do not attend the first three weeks of classes will be withdrawn from the course. Two, is the maximum number of times that a student can take the same class. Please, turn off your cell phones or set it to vibrate mode Phone: 703 845 6555. Highly advised to better use e-mail to contact me. The previous/following course outline is tentative and changes can be made throughout the semester.AttendancePlease read college policies regarding attendance.SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE ITE 221

TOPIC

CHAPTER

DATE

1. INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

2

Week 1

DATA REPRESENTATION

3

BINARY MATH2. PROCESSOR TECHNOLOGY AND ARCHITECTURE

4

Week 2

DATA AND NETWORK TECHNOLOGY

8

3. OPERATING SYSTEMS

11

Week 3

Overview

Resource Allocation

Process Management

CPU Allocation

Memory AllocationCOMPUTER NETWORKS

9

4. FILE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

12

Week 4Directory Structure

Storage AllocationMID TERM5. INTERNET AND DISTRIBUTED APPLICATION SERVICES13

Week 5GROUP PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

6. REVIEW / FINAL EXAMINATION

Week 6HYBRID COMPONENT SELF LECTURINGINDEPENDENT ACTIVITIES DURING THE WEEK = 21 hours self teaching

You will need to complete 4 modules as your independent activities. Please, read the instructions below.

Power Point lectures of chapter summaries are in blackboard under Course Documentswww.nvcc.edu/home/pribar/ITE_221_HYBRIDPlease, read and study the chapters below (modules):Module 1 Read and study chapter 5. Review Power points lecture presentation on Data Store Technology Review videos and Internet links posted on blackboard under Course Documents

Do Quiz 1: Answer the Review Questions on Page 192,193

Module 2 Read and study chapter 6. Review Power points lecture presentation on System Integration and Performance

Review videos and Internet links posted on blackboard under Course Documents

Do Quiz 2: Answer the Review Questions on Page 234, 235

Module 3

Read and study chapter 7. Review Power points lecture presentation on Printing and Display Concepts

Review videos and Internet links posted on blackboard under Course Documents

Do Quiz 3: Answer the Review Questions on Page 273

Module 4 Read and study chapter 10. Review Power points lecture presentation on Application Development

Review videos and Internet links posted on blackboard under Course Documents

Do Quiz 4: Answer the Review Questions on Page 401