Melbourne Institute of Technology

Bachelor/Diploma/Master of Networking

BN104/BN104D/MN402 Operating Systems

Exercise Sheet for Week 1
Part A Facilities Familiarisation
To successfully complete the exercises in this section, you will need to have an account on the MIT computer system. If you do not yet have an account, advise your tutor and immediately contact the computer help desk on level 6. Ask them to provide you with a valid username and password. It is assumed that you will be performing this task in your laboratory session but the instructions are also applicable if you are performing the task at home. 1. This exercise is designed to familiarise you with the MIT unit resource drive and your personal drive on the computer network. a) Start your computer and log in to your account using your given username and password. If you are doing this exercise at home, just start your computer. b) c) Start your web browser. Enter the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) https://online.mit.edu.au/ams into the Address Bar at the top of the browser window and press <Enter>. The protocol used here is https and not http. The https protocol is a secure protocol and the s must be included. Make sure that you enter this correctly. The MIT Academic Management System (AMS) page should appear. You may be required to add a security exception before the AMS page is displayed. Assume that it is safe to do this for the MIT site but for other sites, you need to be very careful before you agree to add any exceptions. If you are asked to add an exception, the procedure will probably be a two step one; firstly confirming that you wish to create an exception and then confirming that you wish to store the exception permanently. If you are doing this exercise at home, the procedure needs to be done only once. If you are doing it at MIT, the way the network has been configured will require you to add the exception each time you access the site in this way. d) On the left of the screen in the Links section is the Resource drive and personal drive link. Following this will take you to the login page for the MIT online resources. Make sure that the Campus entry is set to MELBOURNE. Then enter your username and password. These are the same as those used to log into your account in part (a).

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You should then be taken to the MIT Online Resources page. From here, you will be able to access H: drive (a personal drive of about 40 MB capacity on which you can permanently store your own files) and I: drive (the MIT resources drive on which all unit information is stored). e) Select Resources (I: Drive) and follow the directory structure to MIT/Year2011/semester1/IT/BN104 (or BN104D or MN402). This directory will eventually contain all the information required for this unit. It is your responsibility to check here for up to date information on the unit and to download and print any files that are required. The current directory structure shows that information is now available for the unit description (UnitDetails), lectures for week 1 (Lectures), lab material for week 1 (Labs), the first assignment (Assessment) and some other useful resources (Resources). f) Go to the Assessment directory. Note that there are two files in it. One is an MS Word version of the assignment specifications and the other is an Adobe pdf version of the same file. Double clicking on any file will download it to your computer. Download the pdf version of the assignment specifications to your desktop. g) Switch to your desktop and confirm that the assignment file has been successfully downloaded. Open it and scan the contents to check what the first assignment task is. Then close the file and switch back to unit resource directory. The line just above the directory structure grid should read:
You have selected Resources drive Choose different drive

h)

Follow the Choose different drive link back to the MIT Online Resources page and this time, select H: Drive (your personal drive). The appearance of your personal drive page is similar to that of the unit resources page but that at the bottom of the page there is an area that permits you to create your own directory structure on your personal drive and to upload files to the directory. Up to three files at a time may be uploaded. There is a small bug in the file manager that controls this procedure. Files with embedded spaces in their filenames sometimes do not upload correctly. Always ensure that spaces are removed from the names of any files you wish to upload. i) Upload the assignment file from your desktop (the file downloaded in part (f)). Confirm that it has been successfully uploaded. Any files that you create when working on an MIT computer must be saved if you wish to keep them. Every time that you log off from the computer, your desktop is cleared and the files that you left there are permanently lost. There is a common access drive D: on each computer but every student who logs in has access to this drive. Your personal drive H: is secure and has been provided to you for the purpose of backing up and is always available to you, regardless of whether you log on at MIT or at home. j) Log off from your personal drive and observe that you return to the MIT Academic Management System page.
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This exercise is designed to help you familiarise yourself with the MIT Zimbra email program. It is assumed that you are familiar with email programs. This exercise is not a tutorial. a) Access to your email is provided through the AMS page. The Student web mail link should be located immediately underneath the Resource drive and personal drive link. Follow the link to the web mail page and log in. Compose an email to your tutor using the MIT Zimbra email program. Your tutor will tell you his or her email address if you do not know it. In the body of the email, write your full name and student number together with the name that you prefer to be called by. Include as an attachment, the assignment specification file that you downloaded to your desktop in exercise 1(f) above. Check that your email displays details of the attachment as confirmation that the process has been successful. Send this email to your tutor before the end of the lab session. Check your Inbox. If you have made an error in the address, Zimbra will tell you almost immediately. If you have no error message, the email has probably been sent correctly. When your tutor receives this email, he or she will reply to it to confirm that it has been correctly received and contains the required attachment. Print your tutors response and submit it at the start of the week 2 lab session.

b)

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Some shortcuts. a) To access the Resource drive and personal drive from home, you must use the above procedure. If you access these drives from an MIT computer, you will find that they are shown as network drives H: and I: in My Computer. Login from an MIT computer and explore both H: and I: drives. b) When you access the Zimbra email program from home, bookmark the login page to enable you to access it directly.

Part B Referencing
4. This exercise is designed to give you some practice in referencing using the APA system. The following exercise is based on information from your course text. The reference details provided in the unit outline are: McHoes, A., & Flynn, I.M. (2011). Understanding operating systems (6th ed.). CENGAGE Learning. ISBN-13: 9781439079201 (ISBN-10: 143907920X) a) The reference as given is almost in APA format. The place of publication (Boston MA) is omitted and the ISBNs 1 are not required.

ISBN is an acronym for International Standard Book Number so we should not refer to an ISBN number. There are two ISBNs a 13 digit number (ISBN-13) and a 10 digit number (ISBN-10) where the last character is a check digit. ISBN-13 is a more recent form and this is more likely to be used than the older ISBN-10.
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Correct the below reference using the APA system. McHoes, A., & Flynn, I.M. (2011). Understanding operating systems (6th ed.). CENGAGE Learning. ISBN-13: 9781439079201 (ISBN-10: 143907920X) b) On page 15 of the text, the origin of the term bug is given. Modify the below text to include a citation of the reference. Today, the term bug is used in IT to refer to an error in a program that causes it to malfunction. The term was first used by Dr Grace Hopper when she found a dead moth that had become caught in the relays of a Mark I computer that had crashed. c) On page 559 of the text is a Bibliography. Details of one of the books contained in this are: Author: William STALLINGS Title: Data and Computer Communications Edition: Four Publisher: Macmillan Place: New York Year: 1994 Write the reference below using APA style.

Check your answer in the Bibliography in text book. d) What is the difference between a Bibliography and a Reference List?

Lab Submission 1
This is worth 1% of all marks for BN104/BN104D/MN402. i) ii) Send the email referred to in Task 2 above to your tutor before the end of the lab. Note that this will also require you to complete some previous exercises. Print the tutors response and provide this to him (or her) at the commencement of the second lab.

2011 Melbourne Institute of Technology Pty Ltd, ABN 20 072 324 755 CRICOS Provider No. 01545C, CRICOS Course Codes 062228M (BNet), 067438 (DNet), 062229K (MNet) Authorised by Dr E. Kendall. Last modified 20-Mar-2011 by Ewen McPherson.

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