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You are proposing the purchase of a new e-mail server for your corporate network. You have specified a new server from a major OEM manufacturer that is configured with a powerful quad-processor configuration, hot-swappable hard drives, and redundant power supplies and network adapters, with a three-year onsite warranty. Due to a budget crunch, the chairperson of the budget committee has suggested that the company can make do with a less powerful workgroup server from a local computer store. This server has only a single processor and no redundancy features, and a one-year onsite warranty. What reasons can you provide the budget committee members that might convince them to authorize the purchase of the server that you specified, even though it has a higher price tag?

1. A more powerful server will provide better performance and scalability as the company s needs grow over time.

2. Redundant hardware components will increase the server s availability to service the needs of the company s users and customers.

3. The extended warranty on the more powerful server will increase support costs over time, since you re paying to cover the machine under warranty for three times as long.

4. Windows Server 2003 requires at least a dual-processor configuration.

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You are the network administrator of a Windows NT 4 domain for a shipping warehouse that operates 24 hours a day, 6 days...