University High School

Business Computers Survey Class

Week one

Goal: to establish the relevance of business computing, keep it’s

discovery active, reinforce business computing usefulness and

incorporate as much fun as possible.

5/22/2011 5/28/2011

5/28/2011

Major Elements which constitute:

“Business Computing & Managed Support Services”

5/23/2011 - 5/23/2011

Fresno State Tour

5/24/2011 - 5/24/2011

Business Computing Analysis

5/25/2011 - 5/25/2011

What a managed Service means

5/26/2011 - 5/26/2011

Big Iron vs. Distributed

5/27/2011 - 5/27/2011

Community Hospital Data Center Tour

Day One (5/23/2011):

Introductions and Class Vision

Fresno State Data Center Tour

Debrief Tour

Discuss technology that didn’t exist

before business computing

Qualities of an IT Professional

Key Words: (facility management,

network services, technical support,

help center, telecommunications,

operations, applications, systems,

desktop management)

Day Two (5/24/2011):

Discuss Key Words discovery

Evaluate a Business Program

Assembler Program Analysis

System Design Discussion

Compilers/Objects/Linkers/Loaders

Client/Server Discussion and design

N-Tier Differentiated services

Tier Data Centers (Uptime Institute)

Introduce Major Elements that

Constitute Business Managed

Support Services

Day Three (5/25/2011):

Constraints that exist today

Discuss Business Verticals

Constituent Functional Elements for

Data Center Productions

History of Business Computing

Security: Mainframe Software,

Intrusion Detection, Antivirus, Spam,

Trojans, CIA

Key Words: (mainframe/Big Iron,

Hollerith)

Day Four (5/26/2011):

Big Iron Vs. Distributed

Data Center Landscapes

Independent Software Vendors

IBM Academic Signup

Key Words: (Cobol, ADA, C, Pascal,

PL/I, Fortran, Assembler, ALU/Control

Unit, Storage, Backup/Recovery Vs.

Business Resumption, 1st generation,

2nd

Generation, 3rd

Generation,

Structured Programs, Object Oriented

Programs, Machine Code, OS-

AIX,Linux,Z/OS,Sun, Windows, ESB,

ESM, AS, WS, CICS, Database)

Day Five (5/27/2011):

Community Hospital Data Center Tour

Debrief Tour and Compare/Contrast

Fresno State

Discussion of what constitutes

business computing

Key Words (security, applications,

systems vs. services, hardware,

software, systems engineer, systems

programmer, COTS, CTO/CFO/COO/

CITO)

Traits of the type of individual who

is likely to find computer science a

rewarding and satisfying

profession:

· A capacity for logical thought

· Analytical skills: enjoys solving

problems or puzzles

· Mental ingenuity or cunning: an

ability to see more than one way

to do something

· Painstaking attention to detail

· Persistence: able to stick with a

problem until it is completely

worked out

· Good communication skills

· Creativity and/or intellectual

curiosity

University High School

Business Computers Survey Class

Week Two

Goal: to establish the relevance of business computing, keep it’s

discovery active, reinforce business computing usefulness and

incorporate as much fun as possible.

5/29/2011 6/4/2011

6/1/2011

6/4/2011

Business Computing Challenge

“Data Center Workload Migration”

5/30/2011 - 5/30/2011

IBM Academic Initiative

6/1/2011 - 6/1/2011

Business Service Deployment

6/2/2011 - 6/2/2011

Challenge Day

6/3/2011 - 6/3/2011

Presentation Day

5/31/2011 - 5/31/2011

Business Computing Host Design Model

Day Six (5/30/2011):

IBM Academic Initiative Speaker

T-Shirts

Coding Competition

Class: IBM Software Exploration

Day Seven (5/31/2011):

Class: Group collaboration to discuss

and design a Data Center to Host a

Business Application

Class: Group collaboration to discuss

platform selection factors, Platform

strengths, Workload types and

deployment models

Time Permitting: Write a program and

discuss

Day Eight (6/1/2011):

Class Group Collaboration: Pilot

Deployment (Strategy, Design,

Transition, Operations, Continual

Service Deployment)

Groups: Present to Class for

Discussion

Day Nine (6/2/2011):

Challenge Day – Move a Data Center

and all of it’s business workload

Planning in Teams

Group Collaboration: Planning in

Groups (initiate, plan, execute,

monitor/control, finish/close)

Day Ten (6/3/2011):

Constituent Elements Presentation

Risk Analysis Discussion

Group Collaboration: present

migration plan to class

Vote: (Best plan gets a prize)