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Two paragraphs answer required for each question:

1. Your manager asked you look at the sum of employee salaries over the past five years. "Can you tell me the sum we will be paying employees in 2025?" Is she requesting a descriptive or predictive analytic? Briefly explain the difference between them
2. Sentiment analysis of text is performed using a preestablished BOW (bag-of-words). Briefly explain what a BOW or CBOW is, and where sentiment analysis could it be used in HR
3. A company decides to track the number of employees who leave each year. They want to use this data to help them see patterns in the choices of employees who leave the company. Which of these examples is a metric and which an analytic, and why? 
4. HR wants to start a wellness program. Rather than start it from scratch, they want to model their sister division's successful wellness program. Is this an example of benchmarking or best practices? Explain.
5. You have narrowed your candidate pool for a marketing manager down to three candidates. They all have impeccable resumes and cover letters. Explain how social media could help during the selection process.
6. Corporate HR wants you to email a PDF of all employee records. You suggest that you both use ProtonMail to do this because it is end-to-end encrypted. What is encryption and why is it important to our privacy/security?
7. Most ERP and HRIS today are cloud-based and accessed as SaaS or software-as-a-service models. Describe three benefits of this approach?
8. Management has asked each department for two ways users can protect themselves online. What would you tell them?
9. Give two reasons that would move you towards developing an employee database in Zoho Creator vs Microsoft Access