Introduction

Now that we$$ve covered hardware and some common peripheral devices, let$$s put what we know to use in an authentic way.

You are a member of the IT department at a small company. Your department has received the email below. Your supervisor would like you to research and recommend what equipment the company should buy for the new employee. Write your response as if you were responding to customer, Be sure to include pricing information and justification for any big expenditures.

The email:

$$Hi IT department,

I have a new employee starting on Monday. She will be doing quite a bit of product photography for us$,$ as well as graphic design, video production, and marketing work. She said she$$s used to using the Adobe Creative Cloud products, and would like to use those instead of open source design software. She will also need a computer $($preferably a laptop$),$ with a docking station and two high resolution monitors. Since she$$ll be working with quite a bit of large digital image files, we$$ll also need to get her an external hard drive $($at least $1$tb$).$ I have a $2\mathrm{.}5$k budget to get the computer, monitors, and other peripherals that she$$ll need. I should be able to expand that budget, with approval from leadership, but I$$ll need justification to provide Sr$.$ Leadership if we need to go beyond the $2\mathrm{.}5$k budget.

I should note, we do not need any production studio equipment such as lights cameras, backdrops, etc.

Please let me know what items $($and their prices$)$ that you think we$$ll need to get for her.

Thanks,

J Noda

Director of Sales and Marketing