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ASSIGNMENT #1

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 Email the files created from the following sections as attachments to your instructor at llemley@pjc.edu:

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  1. Read COM-1 – COM-38

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  1. Complete the Connecting to the Internet lab in Interactive Labs (See Instructions below)

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  1. Complete the Understanding the Motherboard lab in Interactive Labs (See Instructions below)

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  1. Complete the Maintaining Your Hard Drive lab in Interactive Labs (See Instructions below)

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  1. Microsoft Windows XP and Office XP, Project 1, INT 1.09 – INT 1.65

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  1. Using your web browser, enter http://www.scsite.com/winxp/exs.htm in the address toolbar. Below Windows XP Project 1, click the Practice Test link. Answer each question, enter your first and last name at the bottom of the page, and then click the Grade Test button. Continue to take practice tests until you score 80% or better (16 or more answers correct). Click the Print button on the standard toolbar to print a hard copy.

3 attachments

 Note:
  • Type your name 5 lines down from the last line of your file.
  • Save all the files on your disk first before you email your instructor.
  • Browse the files on your disk and select/attach 3 files to your email.
  • Type "Your section #, Assignment 1, Your Name" in the Subject.

Files to be submitted as attachments:

  1. Connecting to the Internet lab
  2. Understanding the Motherboard lab
  3. Maintaining Your Hard Drive lab

Or you can type all three labs in one document and attach this file to your email.

Instructions

Complete the following exercise in Interactive Labs after you finish reading the chapter.

Lab

Function

2   Connecting to the Internet

Learn how a computer is connected to the Internet

3.   Understanding the Motherboard

Step through the components of a motherboard

4.   Maintaining Your Hard Drive

Understand how files are stored on disk, what causes fragmentation, and how to maintain an efficient hard drive

  1. To start a Shelly Cashman Series Interactive Lab, complete the step that applies to you.

  1. When the Shelly Cashman Series IN THE LAB screen displays, if necessary maximize the window, and then follow the instructions on the screen to start the using the lab you want to complete.

  2. When the Lab screen displays, if necessary maximize the window, and then read the objectives.

  3. Follow the instructions on the screen to print the questions associated with the lab or you can print the questions by clicking on the links in the first column of the table above.

  4. Follow the instructions on the screen to continue in the lab.

  5. When completed, follow the instructions on the screen to terminate the lab.

  6. Use WordPad, or Notepad, or Microsoft Word to type your answers to the questions printed in step 4 with proper heading.  For example:

Assignment #1
(Type your name here)

Lab 1: Connecting to the Internet
(**These are not real answers**)

  1. a
  2. a
  3. c
  4. d
  5. c
  6. b
  7. F
  8. T
  9. T
  10. F

Lab 2: Understanding the Motherboard

  1.  ....
  2.  ....
  3.  ....
  4.  ....

  1. Save your file as Assignment1 on your hard disk or floppy disk. Save constantly! Don't wait till you finish the entire assignment before you save the file! And you don't have to do all of the labs at one time. However, remember to save your file before your quit.

  2. Open your Assignment1 whenever you want to continue to type your answers.

  3. Save again as Assingment1 after you complete your assignment 1.

  4. Email your assignment1 as an email attachment to your instructor at llemley@pjc.edu.

  5. Please use "Your Section #, Assignment 1, Your Name" as your Subject when your create your email.

Please email your instructor if you have any questions.

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