Class Expectations
Pre-requisites
NONE
- Students from any mayor are accepted.
Class Type:
3 Credits, VIP Program - B (Directed Individual Study)
Co-requisites:
None
Goals
- Some of my goals are:
- Provide to all students the maximum support possible to make sure that all students achieve the best results in every one of my classes by, in addition to my office hours, offer the following additional FREE services.
- FIU Athetics Students, Military FIU students, DRC students
- Tutoring six (6) days a week (Monday thru Saturday)
- Mentoring in and out of class about:
- Internships, Jobs, Resumes, Interviews, Career fairs, Carrer help in spot buiding
- Jobs at FIU as tutors and graders
- Scholarships Flit-Path mentoring
- Free Certifications training
- Free Hands-on Hardaware Traning
- and other services
- If you have any suggestions, for me, to help you better, please let me know
Attendance
- Attendance will be taken.
- Not everything I teach in this class is in the book.
Simple Rules
Your email MUST have your name on it.
FIU, ElHombre, TheItGuy, etc are NOT accepted.
On your email's subject write:
Your class name and email's purpose: OSx pgmX comments
Upload your programs to canvas.fiu.edu.
Your programs must work as requested.
Pages with errors will loose points.
Programs turned in after the due date are NOT accepted.
All work to be done using material taught in our class ONLY.
Any modification to your grades MUST be done no later than ONE week after grades are posted on Canvas and/or Moodle.
if you have any issues with your grading, please circle the question(s) and return the assignment to me, within one week, so that I can re-grade it.
Below Topics and Sequence Could Be Modified
Course Description:
- IDS 3917 Vertically Integrated Projects - B (3). Students work
- This course is designed to prepare students with the required knowledge to design, build and install the hardware and software needs of an organization.
- This class is divided into two general sections, Software and Hardware.
Suggested Text Books
A+ 901 and A+ 902 books
Version A+ 220-901 and A+ 220-902
ISBN-10:1119137853
ISBN-13:9781119137856
Note: A+ 10001 and 10002 will be released on June 2019
Expected Course Outcomes
- Teach you how to design, build and install the hardware and software needs of an organization, from the ground up. Building a basic network containing cabling, nodes, servers, printers, switches/hubs/routers, Operating Systems and other software.
- All Hardware, Software and tools will be provided by Florida International University, free of charge to students.
- This class (IDS3917) counts as any of the first four IT electives or credits toward the 120 credits requirements, there is no pre-requisites for this course.
Projected Schedule (COULD BE MODIFIED)
- This internship will cover, among others topics, the following:
Cables CAT Making/Selecting
Connectors RJ45, RJ11, RJ14, and RJ25
Wall plates
RJ45, RJ11, RJ14, and RJ25 Wall plates ports
Gender Changers
A+ 901 and A+ 902 Certification Tranining
Clients/Workstation Design and Construction from the Ground up
Clients/Workstation Upgrading
Clients/Workstation components warranties
Clients/Workstation Operating Systems Installation
Servers design and construction from the ground up
Servers Upgrading
Servers components warranties
Servers Operating Systems Installation
CPUs
Video Boards
Serial Ports
Parallel Ports
Input Ports
Output Ports
Input Peripherals/Componets
Output Peripherals/Componets
Primary Storage
Secondary Storage
Printers Network/Local
Workstations/Servers/Faxes cabling and installations
Telephone cabling and installations
Switch programming
and many other topics.
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Grading
| 4 Programs 6 points each = 24 points
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| 3 Quizzes 5 points each = 15 points
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| Exam 1 ................. = 15 points |
| Exam 2 ................. = 15 points |
| Exam 3 ................. = 31 points |
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Totals = 100 points |
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PASS GPA
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FAIL GPA
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| A = 100-95 4.00 |
D = 69-51 1.00
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| A- = 94-90 3.67 |
F = 50-00 0.00
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| B+ = 89-86 3.33 |
| B = 85-82 3.00 |
| B- = 81-78 2.67 |
| C+ = 77-74 2.33 |
| C = 73-70 2.00 |
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At the end of the semester, I will round up your Final Grade, bringing it to the next highest integer |
TUTORING
PG6 #102 Hardware Lab
No Appointments Needed
| Mon-Thu 12 noon - 8 PM |
| Friday 12 noon - 5 PM |
| Saturday 12 noon - 4 PM |
Scheduled Programs, Quizzes and Exams
IDS 3917-U02 (15223) (Directed Individual Study) VIP Program - B Hardware Internship
Below Dates and Data COULD BE MODIFIED
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Building CAT Cable - 6 (six) points
Covering chapter 1 and class material
Due: TBA, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Quiz 1 - 5 (five) points
Covering chapter 1 and class material
Due: TBA, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Quiz 2 - 5 (five) points
Covering chapters 2 & 3 and class material
Due: TBA, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Quiz 3 - 5 (five) points
Covering Desktops, Laptops, A+ 1001 sect 0 and 1.1
Due: June 17th, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Quiz 4 - 5 (five) points
Covering Laptops A+ 1001 sect 1.2 thru 1.7
Due: Monday June 24, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Quiz 5 Quote - 10(ten) points
Covering Desktops and Laptops Ugrade Quotes
Due: Wednesday June 26, 2019 at the beginning of class
Since every group has three students, each student needs to make
ONE real UNIQUE/DISTINCT quote to improve your desktop computer and
ONE real UNIQUE/DISTINCT quote to improve your laptop computer
Find the manufacturer of the part that you want to upgrade and locate
the prices and warranty time of the manufacturer competitors
example:
Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor, etc
Crucial, Kinston, Samsung, etc
Due: Throughout Summer 2019
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Quiz 6 - 5(five) points
Covering A+ 1001 sect 2.1 thru 2.4
Due: Wednesday July 3rd, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Quiz 7 - 5 (five) points
Covering A+ 1001 sect 2.5 thru 2.8
Due: Monday July 15, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Build Desktop - 10(ten) points
Building Desktop
Due: Throughout Summer 2019
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Build Laptop - 10(ten) points
Building Laptop
Due: Throughout Summer 2019
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Software Desktop - 15(fifteen) points
Installing OS and Multiple Software Desktop
Due: Throughout Summer 2019
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Network Cable - 4(four) points
Building a CAT Cable to connect to Switch
Due: Throughout Summer 2019
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Server Saving - 5(five) points
Saving Document to Server Hard Drive
Due: TBA, 2019 at the beginning of class
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Final Exam - 10 (ten) points
Covering all Material Learned
Due: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 at the beginning of class
Assignments Documentation
Tools Required
Your Own Laptop Computer:
- In your Laptop you will be installing FREE Virtual Machine Software in which
you will be installing multiple FREE Operating Systems.
Please make sure that you have at least 100 GB available/free of secondary storage
space, and at least 4 gig RAM, preferable 8 gigs RAM
Hardware, Software, Tools and Parts Supplied by FIU:
- Servers
- Workstations
- Operating Systems
- Switches
- Laptops
- Network Building Tools
- Land Telephones Network Building Tools
- Cables, Connectors, Testers
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