Hardware

Figure 1.1 shows a total of 15 client machines and 2 servers. Someone must be responsible for maintaining the physical machines to ensure that they are continually running. This person is responsible for routine maintenance and upgrades, such as adding more disk space and memory and installing or upgrading software packages.

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