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Chapter 2: Objectives

  1. Describe the Total Cost of Ownership and evaluate the estimated costs.
  2. Match the related costs under the categories internal, external, tangibles and intangibles.
  3. Identify the long-term and short-term cost in owning technologies.
  4. Identify operation and maintenance costs, equipment costs, disposition costs, and non-operational costs for the Total Cost of Ownership in the school or organization.

Chapter 2: Questions

  1. What are the Total Costs of Ownership methodologies? Explain.
  2. How do direct and indirect costs effect technology planning?
  3. Make a list of all the disposition costs and non-operational costs of your organization.
  4. Compose a policy to effectively manage indirect and direct costs of technology for your organization.