1. Bus188 Exercise Small Business Architecture Professor Kwan 10/28/08 From example developed by Jeff Gaines

2. Case Details You are starting an small/medium size accounting firm You will have an office with an admin, a manager, a conference room (w/video conferencing), and desks for drop-in resources and also has a business phone, fax/copier, and network printer for those working in the office You have 5 auditors that primarily work outside the office at client sites and must be able to securely connect from client sites, home, or on the road You have a website that is hosted internally containing marketing information but it also allows customers to access some information about there accounts You must be able to store and retrieve customer information in various formats and across various views.

3. Assignment Establish the needed architecture components of hardware, software, databases, and networks, and people (users and support) Diagram the architecture using PowerPoint I will randomly select some solution to display Save the outputs on your own flash drive

4. Tools and Templates

5. Hardware Classes

6. Hardware Devices PDA Laptop/Tablet SmartPhone Desktop/Workstation MicrocontrollerMainframe Supercomputer Ultra-Mobile PC Minicomputer/ Various Servers Use these devices as symbols

7. Software Categories Program Symbol

8. Database Options Hierarchical Network Relational

9. Various Repositories Database Symbol

10. Network Options and Terms The three types of networks include: –Local area network (LAN) –Metropolitan area network (MAN) –Wide area network (WAN) Other network models –Intranet –Extranet –Virtual Private Network (VPN)

11. Types of Networks

12. The Network Components