Objectives
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Your company is currently planning to automate many different system administration tasks. Your manager has asked you to research a system administration task and implement it using VBScript. In addition, your manager would like to see both a proposal that describes the system administration task and a complete VBScript solution with sample output runs.
Guidelines
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During the first 6 weeks of this course, you will be introduced to a variety of topics in VBScript. These topics include the following.
- VBScript Introduction: Variables, Constants, and Data Types
- VBScript Output Methods, VBScript Input Methods
- VBScript Decision-Making Statements
- VBScript Loop Structures and Arrays
- VBScript Procedures and Functions
- VBScript File Input/Output Methods
The Course Project is worth 170 points and is comprised of the following deliverables.
- Week 3: Outline (30 points)
- Week 6: Complete proposal (140 points)
The following is a list of guidelines for your Course Project, due in Week 6.
- The complete proposal should include the following.
- Introduction
- Description of program (script)
- Source Code with detailed comments
- Source Code should contain a minimum 5 out of 6 topics learned during this session.
- Explain the output along with screenshots of the output
- Conclusion
Complete Proposal Grading Rubric:
| Documentation and Formatting |
20 |
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A quality paper will be free of any spelling, punctuation, or grammatical errors.
A quality paper will include a title page, appropriate sections based on a table of contents (TOC), an abstract or executive summary, proper citations, and a bibliography.
It will conform to APA guidelines; including citations and references. |
| Organization and Cohesiveness |
20 |
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A quality paper will include an introduction based on a well-formed thesis statement. The logical order of the paper's content will be derived from the thesis statement.
Sentences and paragraphs will be clear, concise, and factually correct. The content will be properly subdivided into sections derived from the outline/TOC.
In a quality paper, the conclusion will summarize the previously presented content and will complement the thesis statement from the introduction. |
| Content |
100 |
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The complete proposal should include the following.
- Introduction
- Description of program (script)
- Source Code with detail comments
- Source Code should contain a minimum 5 out of 6 topics learned during this session.
- Explain the output along with screenshots of the output
- Conclusion
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| 140 |
100 |
A quality paper will meet or exceed all of the above requirements. |
Some examples of administration tasks are;
automatic updates on computers and archiving files from the hard drive to a file server to free up hard drive space