Question

Do you have more than one computer in your home? If so, answer this item based on the computer situation in your home. If you don't have one or more computers in your home, answer the following item as though every family member in your home over the age of five had their own computer. Conduct a needs assessment to determine how a network could benefit your family. Use three to five sentences to describe the results of your assessment.

Answer 1

In my house there are 4 persons over the age of 27 that have a computer for each one. The assessment that I made determined that we won’t benefit as much for using a network because each one has very different jobs and we don’t really need to share information. The only tool that we all use is internet. Therefore, the network is only useful if you are in a work environment where you need to share information among colleagues.

Explanation:

A network is a net of computers that are linked among them offering the possibility of sharing the information from one computer to another. It is highly used in companies in order to transfer files among the members of a department. e.g. Marketing members will share their documents to quickly perform a task or save them in the computer of a person that is responsible for a given project.

A network can be internal or external. The most common example of external network is Internet and for internal networks there are Intranets that help the companies to diffuse internal communications or share important documents like the organizational structure.