IT Management

Please answer the following questions/conduct the following research. 1) Read Facebook’s and Amazon’s privacy policies and analyze them. Answer the following questions: a. Do you agree with these privacy policies? b. Are there any parts that are concerning or that you don’t like? c. What would you change? d. Do these policies comply with the European Commission Data (Chapter 5 of the reading)? e. Do you think that the US should adopt a European commission type data directive? 2) What do you think is a better tool to protect a person’s privacy? An organization or the gov

You are required to : a) Write a SAS program to input the supplied spreadsheet data containing student attendance and module marks. Copies of the spreadsheets can be found in blackboard in the Coursework folder of Teaching Material. You will find there is a spreadsheet listing student details and for each of 4 modules, there are several spreadsheets containing attendance data and one spreadsheet (total 4) containing student marks. Create one SAS data set for all the attendance data and one SAS data set for all the student marks. Refer to task 2 to see what data is required. b) The data are required by different people within the organisation. Create SAS output (i.e. reports) for each of the following individuals. You will need to decide on the information to be included in the report(s) to meet the needs of each type of user. a. The Year manager. The year manager has responsibility for individual student welfare and progression. The year tutor needs to be aware of students who are missing classes. This could be consistently missing the same class and/or students missing for more than one week from all classes. Attendance below 70% on a module is considered problematic. The year tutor requires a list of students who are missing classes each week as the registers are created. b. The course leader. The course leader has overall responsibility for a course and its delivery and will require summary statistics on individual modules (attendance and student marks), individual students (attendance and marks) as well as being responsible for calculating the overall mark for each student’s average mark. c. The Department head. The department head has responsibility for monitoring the student experience and the courses offered. This individual will need to carry out more specific analysis. For example: a) To identify modules and students which have above and below average attendance/results. b) To identify associations between achievement and attendance, c) To identify associations between results and student demographics, d) To identify associations between attendance and student demographics. They will also be responsible for setting the policies used by the department, for example: a) in setting an attendance level below which some type of action is required by the year manager (currently 70%). Would a different attendance level help meet the university objective of 50% of students achieving an overall average of 60% over their module marks. b) Identifying when modules are too easy or too hard, c) Identifying when a module has poor attendance. They will also be involved in making strategic decisions such as: a) Is attendance monitoring worthwhile? b) Should students who achieve 39 % in a module be automatically be rounded up to 40%? c) Should an overall attendance level be set? Failure to achieve the level of attendance will result in failing a course overall. Example rules could be: • if students attend below 70% in each module, they fail the attendance requirement • if students have an average attendance for all modules below 70%, they fail the attendance requirement. How many students would be removed from the course with each of these policies? Present your findings in a report, which should state how your SAS reports meet the needs of the specific user types and should include the SAS reports to prove your case. You should also place all your SAS programs in the appendix.

You may have already chosen a topic, but it’s a good idea to use these generative techniques for several topics to make sure you don’t settle too quickly on one without thinking about other possibilities. Following the clustering instructions, make your own cluster. Remember that it’s generally easiest to let the ideas flow if you are writing by hand on paper, but you may choose to use Word or some other software as well. You can download this file as a cluster example and a template. However, you should remember that clustering is a way to generate the flow of ideas. Usually, it’s easier to go with the flow if you’re writing rather than using a word processor.

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Assignment 2: Database Design When you design a system, how its data is stored, optimized, and accessed are among your primary concerns. If your system cannot work efficiently with well-structured data, then your design would not be of much use to your organization. For this Assignment, imagine that you are a systems analyst for a bookstore. You are designing a system to sell books, CDs, and DVDs online. Using what you have learned about data management layer design, address the following in a 2- to 3-page paper: Which object-persistence format is best for this system? How do the problem-domain classes map to the selected format? What techniques would best optimize the design’s processing efficiency? What do you need to consider when you design the data access and manipulation (DAM) classes for the system? Create one DAM class as an example. Explain each of your recommendations and justify the design choices. Cite your sources according to APA guidelines.

Assignment 1: Data Modeling In your earlier analysis efforts, specifically in structural modeling, you examined the organization of data within a system. The approach that you used in analyzing that data structure was an object-oriented approach. In this Assignment you use a structured approach to model the data flow processes as you develop the data aspect of your design. Consider this scenario: Quality Tools is a company that sells a line of high-quality tools through an online store. When customers place orders on the company’s website, the system checks to see if the items are in stock, issues a status message to the customer, and generates a shipping order to the warehouse, which fills the order. The system automatically bills the customer when the order ships. The system also produces various reports. For this Assignment, perform the following: Draw a context diagram for the order system. Draw a Level 0 DFD for the order system. Justify the choices you made in your context diagram and DFD. Briefly compare the structured approach you use here with the object-oriented approach outlined in your reading. Cite your sources according to APA guidelines.

Hide Assignment Information Instructions In order to complete assignment #1 you will need to answer the below questions. Please complete the questions in a Word document and then upload the assignment for grading. When assigning a name to your document please use the following format (last name_Assignment #1). Use examples from the readings, lecture notes and outside research to support your answers. The assignment must be a minimum of 1-full page in length with a minimum of 2 – sources. Please be sure to follow APA guidelines for citing and referencing source. Assignments are due by 11:55 pm Eastern time on Sunday. Assignment 6.  You are the CISO for Amalgamated Widget.  The company wants to protect the data link when employees visit the company website to work from home. Alice argues for using SSL and Tina argues for using IPsec. a.  List arguments Alice might use in favor of SSL. b.  List arguments Tina might use in favor of IPsec. c.  Make a recommendation to the CIO.

This week we are reviewing common calculations used in quantitative analysis and learning about presenting our data. They say that data is only as good as it’s presentation, so let’s have some fun and find representations of “bad data”.  Please take a look at this example https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202121 Search the web for a bad display of data Briefly summarize your article, can you identify which quantitative method was used in the analysis? How was the data presented? Can you suggest an alternative method? Be sure to include a link for your example. Make sure to write about data in healthcare.

For this quiz, you will identify a SUCCESSFUL project and write a brief description of the project to include the project name, sponsor, budget, deadline, vendor that was hired to manage the project (if any) and the impact of the project failing.  In addition, try to identify some of the components that resulted in the success of the project and what common pitfalls that they avoided they may have resulted in project failure.  The document should be 1-2 pages in length (single-spaced) plus a cover page and a page to cite your sources.  Please submit document in PDF format.

Scenario: You are an entrepreneur in the process of researching a business development idea. As you create a high-level Information Technology (IT) strategy for your new enterprise (MAnics), it is important to consider the acquisition of IT resources. A Systems Acquisition Plan will guide the process of identifying enterprise technology needs and acquiring appropriate information systems in the context of your goal to incorporate business driven IT. The Systems Acquisition Plan is intended to describe a high-level process for acquiring and maintaining IT systems. The Systems Acquisition Plan is a working document, which is expected to change over time as new project details emerge.  Create a high-level Project Systems Acquisition Plan for your project (MAnics) in a minimum of 1,050 words that includes the following information:   A description and justification of the specific systems design and development approach (SDLC, RAD, Spiral, outsourcing, etc.) the enterprise will employ A summary of the steps in the systems acquisition process including initiation, analysis, design, acquisition, and maintenance A high-level overview of who will participate in each step of the systems acquisition process Cite a minimum of 3 peer-reviewed references.   Format?consistent with APA guidelines.