Project APA

1.Circuit City was an American consumer electronics company founded by Samuel Wurtzel  in 1949. 

2.By 1990s, Circuit City became the second largest consumer electronics store in the  United States with annual sales of $12 billion. 

3.On March 8 2009, Circuit City shutdown all its stores.

4.On January 8th at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Circuit City CEO  announced a comeback and relaunch of Circuit City into “a dynamic, a social-focused ecommerce site” and a new business strategy for its retail stores12

5.In this case study, assume that Circuit City hired you as the new chief information officer (CIO) to help relaunch the company into a global e-commerce multinational company. 

6.Create a PowerPoint presentation containing the IT strategic plan that will address Circuit City ecommerce initiatives.

Fundamentals of Security

Cryptography was identified in one of the key security controls planned for improving PCS security. The cost of the hardware and software for these controls raised some additional concerns.  

Based on your research for Unit 6, write a point paper: 

Explain the benefits of encryption.  

Explain the different ways encryption will play a role on the PCS corporate network and satellite offices.  

Give some examples of security problems that will be addressed by your encryption solutions.  

The CEO asked why we haven’t been using encryption all along if it is so easy. Other than hardware and software costs, provide a response to this question.

network administration

  • What is the purpose of the reverse lookup zone?
  • Can more than one DNS server be configured using Active Directory on the network, and if so, what is the advantage?
  • What is the most efficient way to update DNS records?

Excel and Your Career

 

Unit 6 DB: Excel and Your Career 

My degree is Computer Information Systems

Unit 6 DB: Excel and Your CareerToday’s companies are looking for employees to be proficient in Microsoft applications, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Excel skills, in particular, are used in many companies across a wide range of career paths.In this week’s discussion, first go to the following website: Indeed.com. Then, type “MS Excel” in the What box and your zip code in the Where box; then, select Find Jobs. Then, answer the following questions:

  • Is there any position similar to your chosen career listed?
  • What is the name of the position? (If there is no job similar to your chosen career available, find one that interests you and use it to complete this discussion board.)
  • Looking at the job description, review the job duties listed and discuss which of these duties will require the use of Excel? Why?
  • What position(s) listed surprised you by requiring MS Excel skills? Explain your thoughts.
  • In your responses to others, based on the job title they listed, discuss other ways that the person might use Excel to complete the job duties.

Network Modification

  • What are network layers? 
  • What is the OSI Model? 
  • What is the TCP/IP stack? 
  • Are there any other layering models/stacks/implementations? 
  • Why is a layering approach taken in networking? 
  • What is meant by a client/server network? 
  • How does it differ from a peer-to-peer network?  What is a server? 
  • What is a service? 
  • Is your router a server? 
  • Is your computer a server? 
  • What is Zeroconf? 
  • What is a host? 
  • What is a node? 
  • What are network topologies? 
  • What are bus networks?  Ring networks?  Star networks?  Tree networks?  Mesh networks? 
  • Are there any other network topologies? 
  • Is there a difference between physical and functional topologies? 
  • Which topology is best?  

Business Intelligence, Visualization

 Complete the following assignment in one MS word document: 

Chapter 3 –discussion question #1-4 & exercise 12

#1. How do you describe the importance of data in analytics? Can we think of analytics without data? Explain. 

#2. Considering the new and broad definition of business  analytics, what are the main inputs and outputs to the analytics continuum? 

#3. Where do the data for business analytics come from?  What are the sources and the nature of those incoming data? 

#4. What are the most common metrics that make for analytics-ready data? 

Exercise 12.   Go to data.gov—a U.S. government-sponsored data portal that has a very large number of data sets on a  wide variety of topics ranging from healthcare to education, climate to public safety. Pick a topic that you are most passionate about. Go through the topic-specific information and explanation provided on the site.  Explore the possibilities of downloading the data, and use your favorite data visualization tool to create your own meaningful information and visualizations. 

When submitting work, be sure to include in APA format and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.
All work must be original (not copied from any source).

IT Governance

 Organizations are struggling to reduce and right-size their information foot-print, using data governance techniques like data cleansing and de-duplication. Why is this effort necessary?  Briefly explain and support from your readings, using APA style citations with most recent references atleast 4, 1 page+.

Supporting docs:

 

Textbook Chapter 2 – Information Governance, IT Governance, Data Governance: What’s the Difference? 

Textbook Chapter 3 – Information Governance Principles

ARMA International, “The Principles”, ARMA International  Retrieved from https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.arma.org/resource/resmgr/files/Learn/2017_Generally_Accepted_Reco.pdf

Saffady, W,., F.A.I. (2015). Records management or information governance? Information Management, 49(4), 38-41,47.