Physical Asset Management

According to ISF Standards of Good Practice, hardware is

• physical asset used by an organisation

• software embedded within the asset

• operating systems supporting the hardware

• not something you expect

Appointing individuals or department responsible for managing hardware is in which phase of the hardware life cycle?

• Plan

• Acquire

• Deploy

• Manage

• Dispose

Examples of activities in the planning phase of the hardware lifecycle are

• Appointing the Hardware Department to manage hardware

• Allocating RM10 million for maintenance of hardware for the year

• Using barcode to tag asset

• Ensuring that any computer purchased must contain antivirus software

The processor of a desktop PC needs to have at least an Intel i7 processor. This is an example of an activity in which hardware asset lifecycle?

• Plan

• Acquire

• Deploy

• Manage

• Dispose

Receipts are typically not required for purchases of assets

• Correct

• No, receipts are required

All assets needs to be serviced on a monthly basis

• Yes, that is right

• That is not entirely true

Hardware that has reached end-of-life can be thrown away with other normal trash

• 100% true!

• No, you should not do that

An organisation must have its own recycling facility to recycle electronic waste

• 100% True

• Not entirely true

Using a tablet to do work, instead of using a laptop is an example of redeployment

• Yes

• No

Recycling of electronic waste such as printed circuit boards allows us to extract

• cardamom

• gold

• banana

• silver