Tabla de Contenidos: “…Systems Management -- 4.1 Overall Availability Management processes -- 4.1.1 Develop availability practices -- 4.1.2 Develop standards -- 4.2 Service Level Management -- 4.2.1 Business requirements -- 4.2.2 Negotiating objectives -- 4.2.3 Documenting agreements - Managing expectations -- 4.2.4 Building infrastructure - Technical and support -- 4.2.5 Measuring availability -- 4.2.6 Track and report availability -- 4.2.7 Customer satisfaction -- 4.3 Change Management -- 4.3.1 Develop and prepare change -- 4.3.2 Assess and minimize risk -- 4.3.3 Testing -- 4.3.4 Back-out planning -- 4.3.5 Verify change readiness -- 4.3.6 Schedule change -- 4.3.7 Communicate change -- 4.3.8 Implement and document -- 4.3.9 Change record content -- 4.3.10 Review quality -- 4.4 Organization -- 4.4.1 Skills -- 4.4.2 Help desk activities -- 4.4.3 Operations -- 4.4.4 Automation -- 4.4.5 Application testing -- 4.4.6 Passive and active monitoring -- 4.5 Recovery Management -- 4.5.1 Terminology -- 4.5.2 Recovery potential initiatives -- 4.5.3 Recovery Management activities -- 4.5.4 Event Management -- 4.5.5 Incident Management -- 4.5.6 Crisis Management -- 4.6 Problem Management -- 4.6.1 Data tracking and reporting -- 4.6.2 Causal analysis -- 4.6.3 Maintenance policies -- 4.7 Performance Management -- 4.8 Capacity planning -- 4.9 Security Management -- 4.9.1 Security policy -- 4.9.2 Physical security -- 4.10 Configuration Management -- 4.10.1 Component Failure Impact Analysis -- 4.11 Enterprise architecture -- 4.11.1 Infrastructure simplification -- 4.11.2 Ideal mainframe implementations -- 4.11.3 Ideal BladeCenter implementation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…3.6 Pulsed Operation of Logic Gates -- Summary -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Questions -- Problems -- CHAPTER 4 COMBINATIONAL LOGIC DESIGN -- 4.1 Combinational Circuits -- 4.2 Boolean Laws and Theorems -- 4.2.1 Law of Intersection -- 4.2.2 Law of Union -- 4.2.3 Law of Identity -- 4.2.4 Law of Null -- 4.2.5 Law of Tautology or Idempotence -- 4.2.6 Law of Complement or Negation -- 4.2.7 Law of Double Negation or Involution -- 4.2.8 Law of Commutation -- 4.2.9 Law of Association -- 4.2.10 Law of Distribution -- 4.2.11 Law of Absorption -- 4.2.12 Consensus Theorem -- 4.2.13 Transposition Theorem -- 4.2.14 De Morgan's Theorem-I -- 4.2.15 De Morgan's Theorem-II -- 4.3 Sum-of-product and Product-of-sum Form -- 4.4 Karnaugh Map (K-Map) -- 4.4.1 K-Map Set-Up -- 4.4.2 Mapping of 0's and 1's in the Karnaugh Map -- 4.4.3 Adjacency Rule -- 4.4.4 Grouping of 0's and 1's -- 4.4.5 Determination of Simplified Boolean Function in SOP and POS Form -- 4.5 Karnaugh Map with 'Don't Care' Conditions -- 4.6 Five-Variable Karnaugh Map (K-Map) -- 4.7 Six-Variable Karnaugh Map (K-Map) -- 4.8 Quine-McCluskey Minimization Procedure -- 4.8.1 Reduction Techniques -- 4.8.2 Petrick's Method -- 4.9 Map-Entered Variable Method -- 4.10 Realization of Circuit using NAND/NOR Gates Only -- 4.10.1 AND/OR Conversion to NAND/NAND Networks -- 4.10.2 AND/OR Conversion to NOR/NOR Networks -- 4.11 Hazards -- 4.11.1 Static Hazards -- 4.11.2 Static-1 Hazards -- 4.11.3 Static-0 Hazard -- 4.11.4 Dynamic Hazard -- Summary -- Multiple Choice Questions -- Questions -- Problems -- CHAPTER 5 LOGIC CIRCUIT DESIGN: ARITHMETIC OPERATION -- 5.1 Combinational Circuits -- 5.2 Binary Adder -- 5.2.1 Half-Adder -- 5.2.2 Full-Adder -- 5.3 Binary Subtractor -- 5.3.1 Half-Subtractor -- 5.3.2 Full-Subtractor -- 5.4 Binary Parallel Adder -- 5.5 The Look-Ahead Carry Binary Adders…”

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