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Question 1
Define and explain the following terminologies:
Business intelligence (BI);
IT Agility;
SWOT analysis;
Strategic planning;
Enterprise architecture;
Management information systems;
MIS and DSS;
Cloud infrastructure;
Data and text mining;
DMS;
Big data.
Question 2
Suggest a list of information technology (IT) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and outline the advantages and disadvantages associated with IT KPI.
Question 3
What is SaaS and outline its benefit and disadvantages. Explain your answer.
Question 4
Study -Cloud Pro Leverages iPad's touch: Benefits Start-Ups- in your text book [Chapter 2, IT at Work 2.4] and answer the following questions:
Consider this statement: Cloud computing is about the flexible delivery of services at the point of need. Explain how Cloud Pro offers flexible delivery of network management (the service). Explain how it offers that service to network admins at the point of need (e.g., while on vacation or away from the office).
Discuss one benefit and one disadvantage of Cloud Pro for network admins.
Search and view a video demo of Rackspace's Cloud Pro for the iPad. Does the app have amazing features, as Mike Mayo described?
Question 5
Study -Are There Places Not to Use Analytics?- in your text book [Chapter 3, IT at Work 3.3] and answer the following questions:
In your opinion, who might benefit from Seed and what are those benefits?
To what extent, if any, do you agree about the concern for reporting integrity?
To what extent, if any, do you agree about the concern for reporting quality?
Do you detect other new media organizations following a similar strategy to attract readers-and remain in business? Identify those organizations and their similarity to AOL's use of Seed.
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How ideas like galileo''s upset people''s understanding
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Expression for transition probabilities
: (a) Argue that Xn, n 0 is a Markov chain. (b) Find E[Xn|X0 = i]. (c) Derive an expression for its transition probabilities. (d) Find the long-run proportion of time that exactly j people are active.
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Determine the amount of heat exchanged with the surroundings
: The process produces a net amount of work equal to 4,500 J/mol and it exchanges an unknown amount of heat with the surroundings. Determine the amount of heat exchanged with the surroundings. Is this heat absorbed or rejected by the system?
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Approach to shuf?ing a deck of n cards
: Consider the following approach to shuf?ing a deck of n cards. Starting with any initial ordering of the cards, one of the numbers 1, 2, ... , n is randomly chosen in such a manner that each one is equally likely to be selected.
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Business intelligence
: Suggest a list of information technology (IT) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and outline the advantages and disadvantages associated with IT KPI.
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Determining the proportion of the time
: On his return he is equally likely to enter, and leave his running shoes, either by the front or back door. If he owns a total of k pairs of running shoes, what proportion of the time does he run barefooted?
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What is your evaluation of this process
: A flow process produces work using water as the working medium. The process is as follows: steam of quality 50% at 1 bar is compressed adiabatically to 20 bar; is heated isothermally by absorbing 3500 kJ/kg of heat; is expanded adiabatically to an..
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What could the practical domain and range of your function
: Give an example of two quantities who are likely represented by a function and explain why (again use the definition in you explanation). What could the practical domain and range of your function from part (b) be? Justify you choice
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Determine the heat load and the entropy generation
: A Rankine power plant using steam operates between pressures 60 bar and 1.013 bar. The turbine expands steam from 500 °C, 60 bar, to 1.013 bar. The liquid at the exit of the condenser is saturated. The efficiency of the turbine and of the pump is ..
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