Assignment: Hardware Lab

DIRECTIONS: You will be assigned to a group. Work with Group Members to gather information and take required pictures. If you designate one person to take pictures, make sure that person shares the pictures with everyone in the group. OR you may decide that everyone in the group takes their own pictures. Make sure you work together and help one another explore the system unit given to you. Take notes as you answer the questions so that you can prepare your Outside of Class Hardware Report, which is submitted individually. Scroll down to see guidelines for the Outside of Class Hardware Report.

1. Take pictures of the following

• Your team (ask someone to help so you can get everyone in the picture)
• Front of System Unit
• Back of System Unit
• Motherboard
• Picture installing memory
• CPU
• Adapter card(s)
• Other hardware pieces of interest

2. Front of System Unit:

• What openings are on the front of the computer?
• What kinds of storage media can be used with this computer?
• Are there any openings for inserting new hard drives?

3. Document Ports on Front and Back:

• Create table listing the name of each port, number available, and what they are used for. Keep careful records since you'll need to document this for the lab report. To save time, you may want to lookup what the port is used for later.

4. Open computer case with group.

i. Memory

• Your goal is to remove and insert memory.

• Keep track of the steps that you used to do this - everything from opening the case to closing it back up. You'll need to document these steps later. Should be detailed enough that someonewho is unfamiliar with computers canfollow.

ii. Adapter Cards

• What adapter cards are in your computer? What are they used for?

• How much space does the motherboard have for additional adapter cards?

5. Download all the pictures from your team's camera. Make sure everyone on your team has access to these pictures.

Outside of class: Hardware Lab Report

Each individual in the team needs to createhis/her own Lab Report using Microsoft Word. Hardware Lab Report due date is in the calendar.Submit this report to the course dropbox. The report should contain the following components:

6. Report Cover listing the name of the person creating this report.

7. Outside of the System Unit

• Front: document your answers to 2 above
• Ports: document your answers to 3 above

8. Inside the System Unit

• Motherboard: Include the picture of the motherboard. Label the CPU, adapter slots, memory modules, and at least 2 other items.
• Adapter card: document your answers to 4.ii

9. Memory

• Include your steps for installing memory (from step 4.i above). Include and label at least one of the provided pictures to help illustrate your points.

10. Glossary

• Create a table that has two columns. In the first column, list the term. In the second column, provide its definition from your textbook.
• Terms to be included in the glossary: port, adapter card, memory, system unit, drive bay, motherboard, adapter slot, hard drive
• Sort the table alphabetically (A to Z) by the first column.

11. Table of Contents (generated by Word)

• Apply heading 1 style to text that you want in the table of contents. On the Home tab, in the Styles group, click the style that you want (like Heading 1).

• Place your cursor where you want the Table of Contents to appear in your document.

• On the References tab, in the Table of Contents group, click Table of Contents, and then click the table of contents style that you want.