Saturday, July 4, 2009

Case Study 1: Case 1: The 2004 Athens Olympics Network: Faster, Stronger—and Redundant

1. Could the 2004 Athens Olympics have been a success without all of the networks and backup technologies?

Answer:
No, otherwise the 2004 Athens Olympic would not be successful. The Information Technology Computer Networks, Cables and Satellite spread out all the information as soon as possible to the whole world. The Information Technology is responsible for the safety and security of the sports peoples and the audience for that event because the safety and security is the most important at all.


2. The 2004 Olympics is a global business. Can a business today succeed without information technology? Why or why not?

Answer:
It depends on what kind of business we have. if the business is through computer or through internet it will not be successful without information technology because the Information technology will help us or give us information on how to make our business success. The big company business like buying and sailing of food or materials then they need the information technology computer in handling of the orders which is receiving and putting out of the orders.


3. Claude Philipps said dealing with “crazy scenarios of what might happen in every area: a network problem, staff stopped in a traffic jam, a security attack . . . everything that might happen,” was the reason for so much testing. Can you think of other businesses that would require “crazy scenario” testing? Explain.

Answer:
"CABLE AND SATELLITE" - This is a kind of business that would require "crazy scenario" testing because they an precision and it takes a lot of years before the test is coming out because it needs a lot of money and a lot of works.
"INTERNET COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY" like internet cafe - this kind of business also that would require "crazy scenario" testing because when you build this kind of business you need to test that all the materials or unit is good and working and you need to make sure that if there's a trouble in the program of our computer you can fix it easily.