1.

You are part of disaster recovery team charged with completing the asset inventory at a

small business that primarily sells a small selection of products to the public.

As a part of disaster recovery team member, preparing the asset inventory requires some

primary knowledge of the infrastructure and business operations for the particular small business

that you are assigned for. In a disaster recuperation circumstance, for the most part in

independent venture resources inventory is the arrangement of authoritative working's that

connections finance related legally binding and inventories occupations to support life cycle

organization and vital evaluation making for the information innovation climate. Resources

incorporate all basics of technology and infrastructure related tools and equipment set up in a

professional workplace. It is such an important task in an organization where a person needs to

check all the functional units based on priority related to smooth operation of the particular

facilities.

2. Establish a sample hardware asset list for this company and classify those asset as tier

1,2 or 3 assets.

The initial step is deciding a hardware resource which contains the extent of the venture

of the organization. It must be into thought relying upon the scope, size and main focus of the

business of the company. The hardware resources are the physical parts of computer which

enables the software to process their operations. Characterization of hardware components into

the basic widget is the way to the function of a PC and its peripherals.

Following as an example for sample hardware asset list for a small business venture:
 i. The basic input hardware - the basic hardware for example, all processors

equipment, keyboard, pointing devices like mouse, touch screens, touch pads, pen

inputs, motion sensors, interactive smart boards and graphic tablets are being

considered as the primary requirements for a computer operation. The audio input

devices, for instance, microphones; visual picture gadgets are also part of the basic

input requirements. These hardware requirements are classified as tier 1 for most of

the small organizations.

ii. The processing hardware - they guide information to indispensable data inside a PC.

For example, control unit, algorithm and logical unit helps for processing of data. It

has been characterized as tier 3.

iii. The output hardware - they communicate and show information and data in the

output category. These types of output hardware are tier 2. Its accentuation is on soft

copy production and hard copy output.

iv. Storage equipment - they are very important storage hardware that stores

information and data in various structures. It is tier 2.

3. Develop a list of the software needed to restore operations of the small business

Depending on the scope and priority business functions, there are numbers of software

can be applicable to restore operations of the small business. The following are some example

software which can be considered as primary requirements for reestablishing administrations in a

private company:

1. System software – they are the system related software which must have to handle its

internal functions for a computer.

 2. Real-time software – they investigate and look at continuous occasions on event.

3. The business software – they helps to manage financial information.

4. Artificial intelligence (AI) software – they help in critical thinking and provide projection

of future data.

5. The web-based software – they help both business users and customer to connect each

other with respect to their specific needs.

From the above discussion, we can conclude that despite having different requirements of

different small business organization, the above mentioned both hardware and software are very

generic essential requirements for the continuation of business operation for a small company

that primarily sells a small selection of products to the public.

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