Presentation

Students

http://nnomionn.blogspot.com/

http://enkhmanlai-esp310.blogspot.com/

Test 2

test 2 - Speaking topics (mindmapping)

Points - exam content

1. Listening 1-7; (flash memory)
2. Speaking; videos: 1.2.3..8 ( transcripts in portfolio)
3. Speaking: topics 1-6;
4. Interview questions ( 1-12; 13-25)
5. Texts - 1,2,3,8 (translation)
6. Essay (writing) - portfolio/blog

7. Portfolio = blog ; essay; presentation; CV; Application; Report; Review
8. Biye daalt.nom - pdf:   ehnii 5; suuliin 5

Answer 25 questions II

13.Tell me about your proudest achievement.  

14.What kind of personality do you work best with and why?

15.How do you want to improve yourself in the next year?

16.What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job? 

17.What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?   

18. Was there a person in your career who really made a difference? 

19. Who has impacted you most in your career and how? 

20.Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it? 

21.What attracted you to this company?

22.What was the last project you headed up, and what was its outcome? 

23. What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?  

24. List five words that describe your character. 

25.Why do you want this job?

Answer 25 questions I

1.Tell me about yourself.

      2.What are your strengths?

      3.What are your weaknesses?

4.Why should we hire you?

5.What did you like least about your last job?

6.Why are you leaving your present job?

7.How would you describe your work style? 

8.What would be your ideal working environment? 

9.What salary are you seeking?

10.What are you looking for in terms of career development? 

11.What's the most important thing you learned in school? 

12.Why did you choose your major?  

Reading III - Text 3

Network Devices

HUB

Hub is one of the basic icons of networking devices which works at physical layer and hence connect networking devices physically together. Hubs are fundamentally used in networks that use twisted pair cabling to connect devices. They are designed to transmit the packets to the other appended devices without altering any of the transmitted packets received. They act as pathways to direct electrical signals to travel along. They transmit the information regardless of the fact if data packet is destined for the device connected or not.

Switches

Switches are the linkage points of an Ethernet network. Just as in hub, devices in switches are connected to them through twisted pair cabling. But the difference shows up in the manner both the devices; hub and a switch treat the data they receive. Hub works by sending the data to all the ports on the device whereas a switch transfers it only to that port which is connected to the destination device.  A switch does so by having an in-built learning of the MAC address of the devices connected to it. Since the transmission of data signals are well defined in a switch hence the network performance is consequently enhanced. Switches operate in full-duplex mode where devices can send and receive data from the switch at the simultaneously unlike in half-duplex mode. The transmission speed in switches is double than in Ethernet hub transferring a 20Mbps connection into 30Mbps and a 200Mbps connection to become 300Mbps.

Bridges

A bridge is a computer networking device that builds the connection with the other bridge networks which use the same protocol. It works at the Data Link layer of the OSI Model and connects the different networks together and develops communication between them. It connects two local-area networks; two physical LANs into larger logical LAN or two segments of the same LAN that use the same protocol.

Network protocols

Network protocols define a language of instructions and conventions for communication between the network devices. It is essential that a networked computer must have one or more protocol drivers. Usually, for two computers to interconnect on a network, they must use identical protocols. At times, a computer is designed to use multiple protocols. Network protocols like HTTP, TCP/IP offer a basis on which much of the Internet stands.

ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network)

ISDN are used to send over graphic or audio data files. It is a WAN technology that can be used in place of a dial up link. The accessibility of ISDN depends upon the provision of the service by the service provider, the quality of the line set up to your area. It surely provides higher speed than a modem and has the capability to pick up the line and drop it considerably at a faster rate.  ISDN can create numerous communication routes on a single line.

Modems

Modem is a device which converts the computer-generated digital signals of a computer into analog signals to enable their travelling via phone lines. The ‘modulator-demodulator’ or modem can be used as a dial up for LAN or to connect to an ISP. Modems can be both external, as in the device which connects to the USB or the serial port of a computer, or proprietary devices for handheld gadgets and other devices, as well as internal; in the form of add-in expansion cards for computers and PCMCIA cards for laptops.

Test taking tips

http://www.testtakingtips.com/test/oral.htm
http://www.testtakingtips.com/test/essay.htm

Reading 8 - text 8

The "Big Five" IT trends of the next half decade:

Mobile, social, cloud, consumerization, and big data

In today's ever more technology-centric world, the stodgy IT department isn't considered the home of innovation and business leadership. Yet that might have to change as some of the biggest advances in the history of technology make their way into the front lines of service delivery. Here's an exploration of the top five IT trends in the next half decade, including some of the latest industry data, and what the major opportunities and challenges are. So what are the key IT trends of the next half decade? How will organizations adapt to them?

1) Next-Gen Mobile - Smart Devices and Tablets

It's obvious to the casual observer these days that smart mobile devices based on iOS, Android, and even Blackberry OS/QNX are seeing widespread use. But comparing projected worldwide sales of tablets and PCs tells an even more dramatic story. Using the latest sales projections from Gartner on tablets and current PC shipment estimates from IDC, we can see that by 2015 the tablet market will be 479 million units and the PC market will be only just ahead at 535 million units. This means tablets alone are going to have effective parity with PCs in just 3 years. Other data I've seen tells a similar story.
So, while it's still early days yet, it's also quite clear that enterprises must start treating tablets as equal citizens in their IT strategies. So why won't they? For several reasons:

Challenges to smart device adoption

• Smart devices have a poor enterprise ecosystem today. Enterprise software vendors and IT departments have organized around older platforms such as Windows and LAMP. Their infrastructure, skills, and relationships are largely built around an older generation of IT. In the meantime, iOS and Android have a lot to learn and to build up to begin to match this world, though they are starting to make progress in this regard.
• Many of the inherent advantages of smart mobile are anathema to structured IT. From app stores to HTML 5, the large and easy to access application universes of next-gen mobile immediately triggers a security lockdown response (right reaction, wrong response) from IT. I've even seen IT departments desire to remove app stores from smart mobile devices entirely. The solution is probably policy-based screening of apps, but that's a solution a ways away.

2) Social Media - Social Business and Enterprise 2.0

While mobile phones technically have a broader reach than any communications device, social media has already surpassed that workhorse of the modern enterprise, e-mail. Increasingly, the world is using social networks and other social media-based services to stay in touch, communicate, and collaborate. Now key aspects of the CRM process are being overhauled to reflect a fundamentally social world and expecting to see stellar growth in the next year. As Salesforce's Marc Benioff was very clear in his dramatic keynote at Dreamforce last month, leading organizations are becoming social enterprises.
There now seems to be hard data to confirm this view: McKinsey and Company is reporting that the revenue growth of social businesses is 24% higher than less social firms and data from Frost and Sullivan backs that up across various KPIs. The message is that companies are going to -- and have every reason to -- be using social media as a primary channel in the very near future, if they aren't already. It's time to get strategic.

Challenges to social media adoption

• Social media is not an IT competency. Simply put, the human interaction portion of social computing is generally not IT's strong suit. It tends to be treated as just another application to roll out instead of being integrated meaningfully into the flow of work.
• The more significant value propositions of social requires business transformation. Maintaining a Facebook page and Twitter account is relatively straightforward and necessary, but it usually won't generate significant growth, revenue, or profits by itself either. The more profound and higher order aspects of social media including peer production of product development, customer care, and marketing require deeper rethinking of business processes.

3) Cloud computing

Of all the technology trends on this list, cloud computing is one of the more interesting and in my opinion, now least controversial. While there are far more reasons to adopt cloud technologies than just cost reduction, according to Mike Vizard perceptions of performance issues and lack of visibility into the stack remain one of the top issues for large enterprises. Yet, among the large enterprise CTO and CIOs I speak with, cloud computing is being adopted steadily for non-mission critical applications and some are now even beginning to downsize their data centers. Business agility, vendor choice, and access to next-generation architectures are all benefits of employing the latest cloud computing architectures, which are often radically advanced compared to their traditional enterprise brethren.

Challenges to cloud computing adoption

• Concerns of control. When jobs depend on IT being up and working, then you can be sure there will be reluctance to adopt the cloud. There's also little question that not going the cloud route will mean short-term job security, but at what ultimate cost? Never mind that many CIOs and heads of IT just feel they can't yet trust the cloud, despite many cloud providers being more reliable than internal infrastructure (Google recently reported four nines across its Gmail and Google Apps services.)
• Reliability and performance perceptions. Widespread outages by Amazon and Microsoft in the past has set back cloud adoption a minor amount, yet uptime is still extraordinary good by most enterprise standards. More of an issue is moving the enormous datasets that enterprises now posses into and out of the cloud quickly enough. Backhaul and other methods will need to improve substantially to address this satisfactorily for large enterprises.

4) Consumerization of IT

I've previously made the point that the source of innovation for technology is coming largely from the consumer world, which also sets the pace. Yet that's just one aspect of consumerization, which some like myself and Ray Wang are calling "CoIT" for short. Consumerization also very much has to do with its usage model, which eschews enterprise complexity for extreme usability and radically low barriers to participation. Enterprises which don't steadily consumerize their application portfolios are in for even lower levels of adoption and usage than they already have as workers continue to route around them for easier and more productive solutions. Another decentralized and scalable solution is, as with next-gen mobile, to help workers help themselves to third party apps that are deemed safe and secure.

Challenges to applying consumerization to IT

• Vendors provide the UX. Usability and low barriers to participation won't exist until 3rd party vendors, which provide a large percentage of IT (often on lengthy upgrade intervals), get the message and overhaul their apps.
• Consumer technology often isn't enterprise ready. At one point, neither was open source, but eventually an industry that provided value-added services emerged. The same pattern is likely to happen with popular consumer apps.

5) Big data

Businesses are drowning in data more than ever before, yet have surprisingly little access to it. In turn, business cycles are growing shorter and shorter, making it necessary to "see" the stream of new and existing business data and process it quickly enough to make critical decisions. The term "big data" was coined to describe new technologies and techniques that can handle an order of magnitude or two more data than enterprises are today, something existing RDBMS technology can't do it in a scalable manner or cost-effectively.
Big data offers the promise of better ROI on valuable enterprise datasets while being able to tackle entirely new business problems that were previously impossible to solve with existing techniques. While most companies are still addressing their big data needs with data warehousing, according to Loraine Lawson, one need only scan the impressive McKinsey report on Big Data to see the major opportunities it offers on the business side.

Challenges to adopting big data

• Big data requires many new skills. There are a host of advanced technologies and new platforms to learn to be effective with big data, and the IT departments I've spoken with are concerned about the skills they must acquire or foster internally to take advantage of them.
• Meaningful use of big data requires considerable cross-functional buy-in. Big data requires tapping into silos, warehouses, and external systems using new techniques. SOA has similar challenges because it had to coordinate and align so many parts of the business. While some big data will be single function, many of the more intriguing possibilities requires a lot of cooperation across the business and with external vendors, not at easy task.

How IT can evolve to meet the Big Five

I'm beginning to see that in order to stay relevant, and not become the PBX department, IT departments must be prepared to take a "Big Leap" to meet the Big Five. What this Big Leap looks like will be different for every organization, and their are multiple directions that can be taken. As I wrote on Twitter recently, the deeply transformational nature of most of the Big Five means IT must either start leading the business models and evolution of the organization, or become a commoditized utility while the business figures out the moves on their own. This almost certainly means open supply chains and enabling strategic IT abundance via designed loss of control coupled with emergent and agile approaches to IT. Now that I've explored the Big Five, I'll take a look at the Big Leap soon and see what the options are for IT -- such as "The Next Generation Enterprise Platform" that Michael Fauscette recently posted -- to not only remain relevant in the 21st century, but become the driver of business.

Can IT become the driver of business or will the function be absorbed by lines of business as their leaders become digital natives?

Making a presentation

Speaking topics 7; 8

Speaking topics 5;6

Speaking topic №5.

Are you a student or do have a job?

What qualifications do you hope to get from your studies?

Do you meet many people in your job/studies? Why/Why not?

Now let’s talk about clothes.

What kind of clothes do you were for work/college?

Do you prefer wearing formal or casual clothes? Why?

Do you like to get clothes as gifts from friends or family? Why/Why not?

Topic.

Describe a family event you are looking forward to.

You should say:

                        What the event is

                        Where it will be held

                        What you will do at this event.

Explain why you are looking forward to this family event.

Speaking topic №6.

Tell me about the town or city you live in now.

How long have you lived in this city?

Do tourists visit your city? Why/Why not?

What places do you think ourists should see in your city?

What is the best way for tourists to travel around your city? Why?

Now tell me about the kind of music you listen to.

What kind of music do you prefer? Why?

Have you ever been to a music concert?Why/ Why not?

Do you think music is important to people?

Topic.

Describe a TV or radio programme you enjoyed when you were a child.

You should say:

                        What the programme was about

                        When it was on

                        Where you watched or listened to it

Explain why you enjoyed this programme when you were a child.

(Дугаарыг сугалж ярихад балдэх)

Speaking topics 3;4

Speaking topic №3.

What’s your name?

Where do you come from?

Tell me about the place you grew up in.

What did young people do in their free time there?

Now let’s talk about sport.

How popular is sport in your country?

Do most people play sport or watch it on TV? Why?

Did you do any sport when you were a child? Which?

Do you play any sport now? Why/Why not?

Is sport important for people today? Why/Why not?

Topic.

Describe a person that you met recently and liked.

You should say:

                        Who this person is

What you were doing at the time

How you met him/her

Explain why you liked this person.

Speaking topic №4.

Can you tell me your full name?

What shall I call you?

Which country do you come from?

Whereabouts is your home town?

Tell me about the countryside outside your town?

Now let’s talk about your family.

How big is your family?

How often do you spend time together?

What do you enjoy doing as a family?

How do you keep in touch with members ofyour family?

Topic

Describe something you bought that you were not happy with.

You should say:

                        What you bought

                        Why you were not happy with it

                        What you did with it.

Explain how you felt about the situation.

(Дугаарыг сугалж ярихад балдэх)

Speaking topics 1;2

 Speaking topic №1.

Can you tell me you name, please?

What nationality are you?

What part of your country are you from?

Tell me about your region.

Now lets talk about computers and the internet.

How often do you use a computer? What for?

Do you lke using the internet? Why/Why not?

How didyou learn to use a computer?

Do you think it is important to know how to use a computer? Why/why not?

Answers:

1.Only about twice a week.

2.All the time.

3.Not much compared with some people.

4.That’s always for using email. I hardly ever use it for websites and stuff.

5.....for things like writing work reports, or checking my mail.

6......because I haven’t got one myself. I have to use the ones at college.

Topic.

Describe a typical day at work, school or college.

You should say:

                        What you do

                        When you do it

                        How long you have had this routine.

Explain what you would like to change in your work or study routine.

Answers:

1.Well, my busiest time is usually in the mornings, because that’s when I ......

2.If I could change my schedule, I think I’dlike to have more time for ......

3.I suppose my routine’s been pretty much the same for the last.....

4.I’d better start by telling you that I’m currently .......

 

Speaking topic №2.

Can you tell me your name?

What do you do?

Why did you choose this job/this subject?

What job would you lke to do in the future?Why?

What skills do you need for that job?

Let’s talk about free time now.

What do you enjoy doing in your free time?

Do you think you get enough free time? Why/Why not?

How important is it to use your free time usefully?

Answers:

1.because I always seem to have some work I still need to do.

2.like visiting friends for a chat, or going to see a movie, for instance.

3.I think we need to really make it count.

Otherwise we just waste it- watching TV and stuff.

Topic.

 Describe a part of the world you would like to visit.

You should say:

                        Where it is

                        How and what you know about it

                        What you would like to do there

Explain why you would like to visit this part of the world.

Answers:

1.I first heard about it when.....

2.I’m not sure where it is exactly, but I think it’s .....

3.The region I’d really love to get the chance to visit is ....

4.I don’t know that much about it, but it’s supposed to have .....

5.I suppose the main reason I’d like to go there is ......

6.If manage to go there, I’d really like to explore ..... and perhaps I could ......

(Дугаарыг сугалж ярихад балдэх)