This week’s written activity is a three- part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare your paper as one research paper. Be sure to include at least one Schoarly library source per prompt, in addition to your textbook (which means you’ll have at least 4 sources cited). 

Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.

Prompt 1 “Data Warehouse Architecture” (2-3 pages): Explain the major components of a data warehouse architecture, including the various forms of data transformations needed to prepare data for a data warehouse. Also, describe in your own words current key trends in data warehousing. 

Prompt 2 “Big Data” (2-3 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how youve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology? 

Prompt 3 Green Computing (2-3 pages):  One of our topics in Chapter 13 surrounds IT Green Computing. The need for green computing is becoming more obvious considering the amount of power needed to drive our computers, servers, routers, switches, and data centers. Discuss ways in which organizations can make their data centers green. In your discussion, find an example of an organization that has already implemented IT green computing strategies successfully. Discuss that organization and share your link. You can find examples in the UC Library.

Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section. 

The paper needs to be approximately 7-10 pages long, including both a title page and a references page (for a total of 9-12 pages). Be sure to use proper APA formatting and citations to avoid plagiarism.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Be approximately seven to ten pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

Follow APA6 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

Support your answers with the readings from the course, the course textbook, and at least three scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find supplemental resources.

Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

This assignment will be submitted to Turnitin.Instructions

The Database Project Charter/Business Case should be uploaded into the Database Project – Part 1 – Database Project Charter/Business Case Assignment area by the end of Week 3 (Sunday).  

Your Database Project Charter/Business Case) should cover the following information about your proposed database:

1. Business Problem – what problem/issue are you trying to solve with your proposed database
2. Project Scope – is this a web database our installed locally on a local area network, how many potential users, how complex will it be when completed?
3. Project Business Objectives – what are the goals and objectives of the system (increased sales, more efficient staff, etc.)
4. Constraints – Time, money, staff resources, equipment
5. Description of Solution – How would you explain it to your friends?
6. Project Description – a more formal business communications – an executive summary
7. Business Process Impact – what impact will it have on the business/organization?
8. Technical Feasibility – do you need to purchase new equipment/servers?
9. Resource Estimate  – how much, how many people, how much time?

This assignment is to be composed in APA Format using Microsoft Word.  The title of the file you upload should be surnameFeasibility Study where surname = your surname.

Read the two articles and answer the following questions. Be specific as much as possible in your answers. The paper should be no longer than 3 pages.

1.      Describe   the competitive advantage of the iPhone?

2.      Who are the main competitors of the iPhone?

3.       Describe their competitive advantage?

4.       What are the major issues the iPhone is facing now?

5.      If you are an adviser to Tim Cook  what recommendations will you give to him?

Writing Requirements

• 3 pages in length  (excluding the cover page, abstract, and reference list)
• APA format, Use the APA template located in the to complete the assignment.

Continue to build on the skills of providing Web page content and structure with HTML and Web page style and layout using CSS. Demonstrate the skill of creating a dynamic Web page that includes JavaScript client-side scripting. Demonstrate the skill of creating a Web page that delivers audio and/or video content. Design and develop a Web site that includes at least 2 Web pages that meet the following requirements:

• The design of all Web pages in the site must include the following:
  • A visually distinct header at the top of the page
  • A horizontal navigation bar below the header
  • Required content below the navigation bar to include elements as learned in previous assignments. A sufficient representation of headings, paragraphs, lists, images, table, figure, etc.
• A form containing several input types and the Submit button.
• 1 Web page must include dynamic content created by client-side scripting using JavaScript.
  • JavaScript code can be either
    • Embedded in the head element or
    • Included in an external JavaScript file that is linked to the Web page
  • You may write your own JavaScript code or implement code from a provider of free code (copyrights must remain intact).
  • Ensure that the JavaScript code is free of errors that would cause it to fail to execute.
  • Ensure that the JavaScript code is called to execute.
  • Ensure that the JavaScript code is included in the Web site.
  • Validate the HTML in the Web page.
• 1 Web page must deliver audio and/or video content.
  • Deliver the content to older browsers, as follows: 
    • Using the embed element
    • iFrames and/or copy and paste embed code from YouTube or other sites are NOT acceptable.
  • Deliver the content to modern browsers, as follows: 
    • Using the video and/or audio elements
    • Ensuring that the content plays in all modern browsers
    • iFrames and/or copy and paste embed code from YouTube or other sites are NOT acceptable.
  • Ensure that the media files are included in the Web site.
  • Validate the HTML in the Web page.
• Use a single external CSS file to do the following: 
  • Provide style, presentation, and layout to the Web pages in the Web site
  • Validate the CSS style rules
• Submit all HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files in a .zip file.

We covered various areas and priorities surrounding records retention this week. What steps and processes would you develop or implement at your organization to put legal boundaries around retention? Would you incorporate any of the schedulers, if so which one and why? 

 ABC Learning Center is a child care center the uses a local area network to run its business. Employees use a computer in the main room to check children in and out and complete of other necessary paperwork for the center. Records and financial information are kept on another computer located in a back room restricted to employees only. A Web server is also hosted in the back room; a router provides access to the Internet via a broadband DSL connection. The center does not use antivirus software, as the Internet access was primarily implemented to broadcast images from a webcam in the main room so that parents can check on the children via the Internet. Since you are enrolled in a Security Assessment and Auditing class at Tarrant County College, you have been recommended to assist ABC Company with a risk assessment. Complete the following questions based on information provided, (over). 1. What are possible risks to this business? 2. Research solutions you would recommend for this business. Explain. 3. Create an attack tree showing threats that may impact the ABC Learning Center. Please use the correct symbols. 

STRATEGY AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

Check out the website , which has a comprehensive review of strategic planning. The website is the brain-child of Dr. Ross A. Wirth, who has extensive experience in management consulting. However, the website is about general strategic planning, rather than IT planning. While you are learning from the website, you should consider the IT context. Here is a IT plan for the US Patent and Trademark office for 2010-2015.

Do the general principles and strategies of strategic planning apply to IT planning? What may apply, what may not, and why?

Please write a 2- to 3-page article to answer the above questions. You can start by pondering about what IT is so special that its planning differs from the general strategic planning. You can choose to either discuss comprehensively of many perspectives or focus on two or three main perspectives that strike you the most. Bring your own experiences to support your arguments. If you don’t have any relevant experiences, ask your colleagues or those who handle strategic planning in your organization. 

Malicious individuals have discovered several methods to attack and defeat cryptosystems. It’s important that understand the threats posed by cryptographic attacks to minimize the risks to your network systems.

Identify one cryptographic attack and how you can protect against it. 

Notes: minimum 250 words, In line Citations and Proper References.

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• Discuss the benefits of virtualization software, as described in the text. Do you agree/disagree with these benefits, or can you think of additional benefits not already presented?  Also discuss the security concerns highlighted by server sprawl and how you would propose to solve those in your (real or hypothetical) organization.
• Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least TWO of the following:
• Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
• Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience
• Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)
• Make an argument concerning the topic.
• At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations and references in your post.

Chapter 17 introduced some challenges to policy making in developing countries. If you were an analyst working for the St. Petersburg Informational and Analytical Center, explain how you would use data available to you to prepare a report for the Governor for the State Program Combating Proliferation of Drugs. Briefly explain what you would include in your report to detail the problem, and what the forecast results would be for each of several responses to the problem. (You do not have to use actual data from a real model for this discussion.) The idea is to focus on how models can use real data to create forecasts.

Use class materials or open web credible resources for this