Digital Infrastructure T-Level

  Computer fault task – Virus 1     This virus was made under the supervision of the Gloucestershire College Computing Department lecturers. It will not be sent/used outside of Gloscol . This blog is for educational purposes only.     Our virus starts off with a message box that says, “This computer is infected with a virus that will restart the machine in 1 minute. Remove the virus as fast as possible. ”     The first payload happens in 15 seconds. A picture of a distorted Keanu Reeves opens on the desktop. T his is to distract the user from removing the virus.   The second payload happens 15 seconds after the first. The magnifier app gets opened at 1600% to distract the user.   Another payload happens 15 seconds after. A message box opens saying “having fun? ”. This again is to distract the user.   Finally, the last payload activates which restarts the computer. After it has rebooted, it will start the virus again.     Her...

  What is professional development?   Professional development is the act of learning and gaining experience in a particular field of work. The skills learned during professional development will always be linked to what field of work you are going under.   Identify one way employability potential can be increased   A way employability potential can be increased would be to enhance your skills on current and relevant skills. Another huge way employability potential can be increased would be through your personality. An employer sees your personality as a key factor when employing people. An example would be an employer who may want you to work in and around other employees/teams.   Why is employment security increased when professional development has been completed?     Employment security increases when professional development has been completed as it will help you get that edge over other people/competition. T his is by if you were to have kno...

  Page 35 – Assessment practise - Test Yourself   1.Identify three possible results from the analysis of positive and negative impacts on change. A negative impact of change would be areas of the workplace would get confused. This will leave a negative impact on not just those those people, but the business to, this is because it can leave the employees unmotivated. If we were to look at negative impacts on change, we could say that data such as sales would increase. This is because if a company’s website was to change, yes it may negatively affect the employees, it would positively impact the customers as a change could be to their website. One final impact on change would be that operations will become better. This is because with change, becomes a more operable workplace.   2.Compare and contrast the different backup methodologies. Full backup – Every file and folder on the system has had a complete backup. These take up more space and take a longer time th...

  1.Discuss the role of the change advisory board. The responsibility of the change advisory board is to change things in a       business. These mainly consist of verifying changes to see if they will align with the overall goals and objectives of the business.   2.Explain the purpose of a request for change. A request for change, also known as change control, is there to make sure the changes made to a business have no flaws and will actually have a positive impact on the business.   3.Describe the stages of approval for the request for change. First stage : Have the request for change accepted, identified and proposed.   Second Stage : This is when the correct people from the CAB look at the request and consider if there are any red flags. An example of a red flag could be, is there a clear strategy to implement the change? Third Stage : This stage is where the change is implemented.   4.Identify three questions ...

  Page 28 Assessment Practise   1.Identify the three types of operational change. Major change – These changes may mean a significant change to hardware, software, a product or operational processes. These are usually made when there is an issue with the technology. Minor change – When the CAB have requested minor changes to the request. Scheduled change – These are when a business has a set time for when systems are reviewed. The results of these review way well identify the need for change. Scheduled changes are usually predictable; therefore they are manageable.   2.Explain why it is important for businesses to choose the appropriate digital change strategy. This is important as a business must mitigate the risks of making mistakes whilst changing their digital stance. Business must not make any vulnerabilities which can be exploited .

  1. Describe the term ‘Brand Differentiation’. Brand differentiation is how a business makes/identifies their brand differently from other businesses. This is what makes a business different from other ones.   2. Discuss the use of virtualisation and cloud solutions by businesses and how they enable scalability and elastic computing solutions. Virtualisation allows companies to scale their services at a lower cost. This is because they do not have to buy lots of expensive hardware to connect their employees . Cloud services also allow businesses to scale their databases as it is a cheaper way than storing data internally.     3. Explain how unique selling points (USPs) provide useful intelligence to businesses. The USP can tell a business whether a products is selling well or not in the current market.   4. Describe the term ‘customer base’. Customer base means a companies most loyal and involved customers: those who regularly purchase fr...

  Diversity and inclusion assessment     1. Demographics are the people that a business is marketing to. Basically , it’ s the ‘ audience ’ for a business.     2. ‘Bias’ means when there is unfair treatment of a person due to the type of person they are. Someone who is biased is more likely to pick someone who is what they prefer, this could be race, religion etc.      3. ‘Perceivable’ in the web content accessibility guidelines means when information is put out in a presentable way, making it more user friendly. ‘Operable’ means the navig ation of a website must be user friendly.     4. It is important that the web content guidelines should be considered when creating a retail website because people would be able to navigate the website easier and having an inclusive website means more people are going to buy from it.     5. Direct discrimination is when someone is discriminative towards a certain someone just because of t...