Blog 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. What is your essential question?

How can a computer systems analyst best update a clothing and accessory company's legacy systems to meet modern industry standards?

2. What is your second answer to your essential question?

Keep up to date with the technology and the market for the technology.

3. What are three details to support or justify your second answer?

1. Technology is constantly changing. In order to keep up with the modern industry standards, it is important to know what that standard is.
2. Bugs, hackers, and viruses can infect computers that do not have a knowledgable user or a computer without adequate protection.
3. Allows you to buy the hardware/software needed at a cheaper price, helping both you and your clientele.

4. What source helped you prove this answer is justified for your essential question?

Mentorship - I have observed that the clientele of my mentor has trouble connecting to his server because it is using outdated software. Although I have urged him to update it, he has ignored this fact and suffers slightly because of it.

5. What do you plan to study next with your second answer and why?

Computer usage in the workplace of a clothing and accessory company. It's important to observe how the users are taking care of the systems, etc. so that you can properly build the system to fit their needs. (Handicaps, habits, etc.)