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Discussion Post
Part I
After completing this week's reading assignments answer the following question in 250 or more words. After you have done your post, in 100 words or more reply to 2 of your classmates.
A. What does integration management mean to you?
B. How do you identify stakeholders for a project?
Part II
After completing this week's reading assignments answer the following question in 250 or more words. After you have completed your post, in 100 words or more, reply to 2 of your classmates.
A. What are some factors a project manager has to consider that could impact the project's schedule?
Part III
A. How do you determine a project's budget?
B. What is considered a project resource?
Part IV
A. How do you ensure the information needs of stakeholders are being met?
B. What are the procedures for quality assurance and control?
Part V
A. What types of contracts are there?
B. What is the difference between a qualitative and quantitative risk analysis?
Part VI
A. What are some ways to effectively measure project performance?
B. What does SMART stand for and what is it used for.
Part VII
A. Now that you have been introduced to all aspects of project management have your views on what a project manager does changed?
B. Compare what you thought a program manager did before you started this course and now that you have taken this course.
Part VIII
A. Discuss the mechanism of attribute/relationship inheritance. Why is it useful? Discuss the two main types of constraints on specializations and generalizations. A minimum of 1 outside reference is required along with APA formatting. (LO1) (LO3)
Part IX
A. Discuss some types of queries for which renaming of attributes is necessary to specify the query unambiguously.
B. Discuss the various types of inner join operations. Why is theta join required?
Part X
A. What is ODBC? How is it related to SQL/CLI? List the three main approaches to database programming. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach? A minimum of 1 outside reference is required, along with APA formatting.
Part XI
A. What is the difference between primary and secondary storage? Discuss the mechanism used to read data from or write data to the disk. What is the difference between static and dynamic files? A minimum of 1 outside reference is required, along with APA formatting.
Part XII
A. Discuss the different types of parameters that are used in cost functions. Where is this information kept?
B. Discuss the cost components for a function used to estimate query execution cost. Which cost components are used most often as the basis for cost functions?
Part XIII
A. Discuss the UNDO and REDO techniques of recovery. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this technique?
B. Discuss how disaster recovery from catastrophic failures is handled.
Part XIV
A. Discuss each term: database authorization, access control, data encryption, privileged (system) account, database audits, and audit trail.
B. Discuss the types of privilege. What is meant by revoking a privilege?