1. "The" Infrastructure Issue (Ch05): What is "the" issue driving IT Infrastructure Hardware and Software decisions? Explain the issue. Provide an example of what happens when this issue is not appropriately addressed in IT infrastructure? (Do not use the examples from the book or from the lecture. Find your own.)

2. Components of Infrastructure (Ch05): What are the five components of IT infrastructure and what do they mean?

3. TCO (Ch05): What is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)? What is included in TCO? What kinds of cost? How can it be reduced? Provide an IT TCO example.

4. Table / Field / Record (Ch06): What is a table? What is a record? What is a field? Use an example to illustrate how these terms relate to each other and how they are different.