Topic 4, West Coast Couriers
Company Background
Corporate Information
West Coast Couriers is a courier company based in California. The company consists of a single
building that includes offices and a warehouse. 30 employees work in the offices, 30 people work
in the warehouse and there are 20 delivery van drivers.
Existing Environment
Existing IT Environment
West Coast Couriers has 10 portable client computers and 20 desktop client computers in the
offices. Each office employee has a dedicated computer.
There are a further five desktop computers in the warehouse.
All client computers run Windows XP Professional with a mix of Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft
Office XP and Microsoft Office 2003.
A server in the office runs Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
Existing Licensing Solution
West Coast Couriers purchased the Exchange Server license, Exchange Server CALs and
Windows Server CALs through different Open License agreements.
All Windows operating system licenses and Microsoft Office licenses were purchased with the
hardware and are OEM licenses.
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Planned Changes
West Coast Couriers plans to modernize the way jobs are assigned to their drivers. They plan to
issue each driver with a PDA that runs Windows Mobile and a custom application. The custom
application will communicate with a dedicated server in the office. The server should be located in
a perimeter network to improve security. A new server will be purchased for this purpose.
Business Goals
West Coast Couriers has the following business goals:
Deploy a server to host the custom application.
Provide all drivers with Windows Mobile PDAs.
Implement a security solution to protect the perimeter network.
Migrate all client computers to Windows 7.
Upgrade all client computers to the same version of Microsoft Office.
Ensure that the latest version of Microsoft Office is available.
Initial licensing costs must be minimized.
Licensing for all products purchased must include rights for perpetual use.
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Which of the following licensing programs are recommended for companies with less than 250
computers?
A.
Microsoft Open Value.
B.
Microsoft Open Volume.
C.
Microsoft Select License.
D.
Microsoft Enterprise Agreement.
Explanation: