Author: chris

You are a well-known expert in the design and security of corporate network infrastructures. As such, Z Corporation, Inc. (ZCorp) has contacted you and is requesting a proposal for a network infrastructure integration design. ZCorp is a global financial institution that intends to add Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to its existing network. The headquarters of ZCorp is in Denver, CO and it also has main offices in Sydney, Australia, Vienna, Austria, Tokyo, Japan, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Local routers are providing network services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), network address translation (NAT), and Domain Name System (DNS). It is using Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) as its interior gateway protocol and Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) as its exterior gateway protocol. Its wide area network (WAN) involves multiple T3 connections and the use of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). It is unclear to the ZCorp information technology (IT) staff whether they should replace Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) with IPv6 or use both versions of IP (dual-stack operation).

Your mission is to prepare a proposal document that makes a recommendation for either replacing IPv4 with IPv6 or using both version of IP. This recommendation must be supported and explained in detail.

Your proposal should specify a phased approach for your recommendation. You should include the following considerations in your document:

The benefits of implementing IPv6, especially in the area of security
Potential issues and concerns
Whether or not to continue the use of network services
Necessary changes to existing hardware
Other resource factors

Case Study 3: Risk Management on a Satellite Development Project

Due Week 8 and worth 280 points

Read the case titled: “Risk Management on a Satellite Development Project” found in Chapter 10.

Write a six to eight (6-8) page paper in which you:

Suggest the issues that could have developed had the team not had a risk plan. Determine the major impacts of risk that the team needs to understand for the project to be successful.
Justify the value of risk plan considering the time, effort, cost, and resources it took to develop such a plan. If you were the project manager, recommend the approach that you would take to ensure the project met the critical path identified.
Assess how to determine the level of risk management appropriate for a project.
Imagine the team working on the satellite development project was a virtual team in which team members were unable to meet in person. Explain the expected impact on the project, and suggest two (2) ways the team could maintain its current goal in both planning and execution.

Read the case and answer the following questions regarding the Apple case on page 55 of the textbook.

How has Apple implemented the marketing concept?
Describe the role of Apple stores as an important part of its marketing strategy?
What will Apple need to do to maintain product innovation and customer loyalty?

This assignment is due by midnight, Central time on Sunday, at the end of week one. No late assignments will be accepted without advance permission from the instructor.

On this and every other case assignment you must meet the minimum standards for depth and organization. Any case analysis that is under 500 words (not counting title and references) will receive a zero. Each case also must have a minimum of 3 outside references, not counting the textbook or (in the week one case) the Apple web site.

A Sample Case Analysis has been attached in the assignments section, along with this first case assignment for your review. This sample gives you a clear example of how the required case analysis format should be delivered. Follow this format in your analysis.

Do not use the Key Marketing Issues used in the sample case. Each case will have its own set of Key Marketing Issues which you will choose based on the details of the case content and the class reading. Follow this format on all 8 case analyzes.

Course Description

This course demonstrates how to apply selected statistical techniques to a wide variety of problems and situations arising in the areas of business, economics, finance and management.
Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

· Display quantitative data visually

· Determine the best statistics for describing, exploring, and comparing data

· Understand the binomial and normal probability distributions

· Estimate population proportions, means, and variances

· Understand and apply hypothesis testing and how to test claims about proportions, mean, and variance.

· Understand and apply correlation and simple regression techniques

· Understand and apply statistical quality control methods.

Your manager tells you about a new department the company will be adding that is part of the company’s strategic plan to enter a particular market segment. Your manager would like you to manage one of the teams in this new department. Your manager has put together the team you will be managing. Your new team consists of the members of your current Learning Team.

To be successful in the new market segment, your team must efficiently accomplish the goals set by the company. Your manager, therefore, would like you to develop a leadership approach for each team member on your team based on the theories of leadership and each member’s individual personalities.

Write a memo to your manager of 1,300 words in which you explain how you plan to successfully lead your team. Include the following:

Evaluate the individuals, including yourself, based on the personality assessment.
Evaluate the situation in terms of urgency, culture, and so forth.
Determine leadership approaches, based on individuals and the situation. Highlight the principles you have applied from various leadership theories.

For this assignment, you will have a chance to put into practice all you have been learning throughout this course. You will analyze the personality development of one of the theorists studied in this course from three different theoretical perspectives.

Choose one of the theorists you have studied this term. Use your textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library resources to research the life history of the theorist. ** (USE: ALBERT BANDURA AS THE THEORIST TO ANALYZE)**

Do the following:

Describe the major life events of the theorist that you feel influenced his or her personality development.
Describe the cultural influences that had an influence on the chosen theorist’s personality development.
Analyze this person from Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective.
Analyze this person from two other theoretical perspectives studied in this course, except for the trait perspective.
Summarize and present your critical opinion about how well (or not) these theories explain the person.

Review the following video and the resources:

LSUcas. (2012, September 25). Bloom’s Taxonomy [Video File]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfp3x_qx5IM
Objectives Builder. Retrieved from http://teachonline.asu.edu/objectives-builder/

Teaching to higher order thinking skills requires more extensive learning activities. How might you use Bloom’s taxonomy in developing lessons to teach to the higher levels of Bloom’s taxonomy pyramid (Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation?). What technology can you use to extend and expand the lesson to involve more cognitive processes?

Review the following websites:

Assistive Technology in Education. (n.d.). In Wikibooks. Retrieved from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Assistive_Technology_in_Education

Examine at least two of the 15 items in the Table of Contents.

From the WikiBooks Assistive Technology site or from other sites, identify and describe at least two assistive technology tools of interest. Do you think you may have an opportunity to try these out in your classroom or training room? Do you think they might be useful tools for a broader audience? Discuss.

Our text states, “Combining computers with cooperative learning strategies promotes greater quantity and quality of daily achievement, more successful problem solving, and higher performance on factual recognition, application, and problem-solving text items than do computers and competition or computers and individualized learning.”

With that in mind, explore the National Education Association (NEA) website and review the Common Core State Standards Tool kit (or another website that offers lesson plans utilizing technology) that has elements that can be adapted to your Final Project lesson idea. Address the following:

Explain how you would rework this lesson to build an atmosphere that encourages participation and cooperation.
How would you integrate technology into the lesson? Stretch your ideas beyond powerpoint, word processing or graphics programs. Consider online games, science simulation, comic generators, video and voice over the Internet, mobile applications, or other exciting new technologies available for teaching and learning.
How would you develop a cooperative environment around use of the technology you selected

Review some of the resources available on Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Critical Evaluation Retrieved from http://www.schrockguide.net/critical-evaluation.html, including these:

But I found it on the Internet!
Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages
WSI: Web Site Investigator: Information Forensics

Discuss the following:

When considering the five criteria for evaluating web pages, which of the criteria do you feel you used regularly, which will you begin to use more carefully?

Accuracy
Authority.
Objectivity.
Currency.
Coverage.

How important is it to your learners that the websites they are viewing stand up to critical evaluation? How would you encourage them to become more thoughtful of the information they find on the Internet?