- Information professionals with adequate skills are required to maintain the business continuity of database services in an organization. Identify and assess at least three professional skills that would be required to be successful database administrators.
- Give your opinion on what the critical nature of a database administrator’s role is to IT industry organizations. Support your answer with specific examples of functions and responsibilities they perform.
"Lessons learned"
- Watch the videos from Karl McDonnell, CEO of Strayer University, titled “What are some of the most important lessons you’ve learned in your professional career?” and “What advice do you have for our students who want to grow in their careers?” Discuss the most important lesson you’ve learned in your professional career and indicate how this lesson has helped to shape your career.
Database Security
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are the three common security goals. Select at least three security vulnerabilities that could jeopardize and compromise a database. Classify each vulnerability with being technical, managerial, cultural, or procedural. Provide your rationale.
- Suggest specific actions that could be performed to minimize the vulnerabilities identified in Question 1 of this discussion. Describe how often these measures should be performed and the order in which each should be performed.
business information
Any business information system will have two critical components: a computer network and a database system resided on the computer network. Many business related data (such as customer records, business financial data, company’s documents, employees’ records, etc.) are stored in the databases so that they can be shared among different users. Users can query databases to get the data and information they need. In 200 to 300 words, discuss the following:
- Why database system is a critical component of business information systems? (Tip: Please provide at least one reason.)
- Why IT department of a company needs to backup databases regularly? (Tip: Please provide at least one reason.)
NURSING JOURNAL
250 WORDS 2 REFERENCES WITHIN 5 YEARS (NURSING JOURNALS ONLY!! IN TEXT CITATIONS ARE A MUST!!
Under the umbrella of the American Nurses Association (ANA), there are state nurse constituent organizations such as the Florida Nurses Association (FNA).
- Describe the relationship between the national and state organizations
- Discuss how the state organization can impact the chosen state legislative level bill
Text File Processing
- Visual Basic provides libraries that allow data to be read from a text file into a program. Once the data is read from the file, it can be processed in a number ways. Assume you are a developer working for a small retail company. You have been asked to develop a Visual Basic application that reads product information from a file and generates a report. The input file contains many lines of product data: Each line contains product identification, name, price, and quantity. Explain the process you would use to generate the report.
- A program that requires data from a text file will fail if there is a problem with the text file: file may not be accessible, file may be empty, or there may not be enough system memory to process the file. What would you do in your program to avoid these pitfalls when working with text file in your program?
NURSING
250 WORDS 2 REFERENCES WITHIN 5 YEARS (NURSING JOURNALS ONLY!! IN TEXT CITATIONS ARE A MUST!!
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health has stimulated much discussion, both pro and con. Key Message 3 states: Nurses should be full partners, with physicians and other health care professionals, in redesigning healthcare in the United States (US). Offer your analysis on this key message.
- Discuss the meaning of ‘full partners’
- Explain initiatives implemented and/or are recommended to advance this key message
- Discuss how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) supported the Future of Nursing initiatives
- Discuss 2 initiatives that may be affected if the American Health Care Act is voted into law
nutritional health
Make sure you completely answer the questions. Most of the questions have 2 or more parts. Responses need to be at LEAST 150-250 words. Please do not just copy the answers directly from the text – I want you to formulate the response in your own words.
- What are the five developmental tasks of young adulthood, and how can the accomplishing of one influence the accomplishing of any of the remaining four?
- What is the function of fat in nutritional health besides serving as the body’s primary means of storage for excess calories? What is the basis of our current concern about saturated fats, cholesterol, and trans-fatty acids?
- Identify those risk factors for cardiovascular disease that cannot be changed. Identify those risk factors that can be changed. Lastly, identify the risk factors that can be contributing factors.
- What role does Medicare and Medicaid play in meeting the health care needs of the American public? Which portion of Medicare is universal? What elective option does Medicare offer?
- Examine the effects of nicotine on the body outside of the central nervous system. How does the influence of nicotine resemble that associated with the stress response?
A Model of Moral Values
Please identify and describe a model that embodied moral values such as Gandhi, King, Mother Teresa, Mandela, etc. Using a PowerPoint presentation, with detailed information in the notes section to support your points, please answer the following questions: Describe his or her likely personal code of moral principles and values. How were these principles and values formed? Were these values and principles consistent with those of this person’s larger environment? If a conflict between personal and larger values was present, how was it addressed?
Your presentation should be 4-6 slides in length, not counting title and reference slides, and conform to CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA. Include at least three scholarly references in addition to the course textbook. The CSU-Global Library is a good place to find these references.
Evaluating a Supply Chain
In this assignment, you will develop an understanding of the supply chain. You will provide your assessment of a supply chain in the form of an evaluation. This assignment is the second of the two LASA assignments you will complete in this course.
Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet, research methods of evaluating supply chains. Select at least three (3) scholarly sources to support the information in your presentation.
Description of LASA:
In this assignment, you will evaluate a supply chain.
Scenario:
You are consulting for the same organization that you worked for in LASA 1 (Walmart Stores, Inc). The organization has asked you to design a supply chain and implement a program to monitor its performance with respect to sustainability. They have also asked you to give recommendations for improving upon your plan as the organization grows. The chief executive officer (CEO) has asked you to present your design and recommendations in a PowerPoint presentation at a meeting with the executive management team.
Instructions:
Your presentation should include the following information:
- Evaluate the organization’s facilities with regard to capacity and location. Determine whether the organization has enough capacity and whether or not the facilities are strategically located.
- Conduct an inventory analysis of the firm.
- Evaluate the firm’s ERP system.
- Evaluate the firm’s inventory management systems.
- Identify the firm’s inventory costs.
- Determine the firm’s optimum order quantities.
- Identify the firm’s seasonality adjustments and reorder points.
- Describe the systems used to monitor the performance of the suppliers.
- Identify the key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Describe the firm’s risk management strategies.
- Identify the firm’s conflict management strategies.
- Recommend strategies, tools, etc. the organization can use to improve or expand upon the supply chain in the future.
- Identify any potential ethical issues that could have a negative impact on the organization and make recommendations to address them.
In addition to the slides in the presentation, include a detailed outline in the speaker notes section explaining the content on each slide. Use at least three (3) scholarly sources to support the information in your presentation. Be sure to cite the sources for your information.
Make sure your presentation adheres to the following Presentation Guidelines:
- Create a presentation that is professional and visually appealing.
- Include a combination of text and graphics.
- Do not write out your entire presentation on the slides. Use bullet points of keywords and short phrases instead of long sentences and paragraphs.
- Create your presentation (slides and Speaker Notes) using language that can be easily understood by the intended audience.
- Use APA formatting for your slides and Speaker Notes (outline).
Develop a 10–15-slide presentation (including the title slide and reference slide) in PowerPoint format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.