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Discussion Post
A. How have embedded computers and the IoT impacted your daily life? What additional uses can you see yourself using? What security or other risks might you encounter with IoT?
Provide significant discussion information with APA citations for quotes or paraphrases and provide the research link that you have used to help you understand the question.
B. Business analysts say that physical retail stores are in decline, while e-commerce websites such as Amazon are more popular than ever. Do you agree? Why or why not?
C. What types of input and output devices would be ideal for a college student completing his or her coursework?
D. Compare photo or image editing programs that work on your personal computer with similar apps that work on your phone. Which do you find easier or more convenient to use? Why?
E. How serious are the risks to your computer security.
F. Explain the steps to installing and updating legitimate software.
G. Explain how to apply a "Picture Style"
H. Explain how to access the "Tell Me Box".
I. Part I: You are working for a popular sports restaurant that has five branches. Your boss has asked you to create a worksheet to show results for drinks, meals, games, and souvenir sales. Using estimates, explain how you would create the worksheet for Sports & You, including totals and averages. Use the concepts and techniques presented in this chapter to explain how you would format the workbook. Also, explain how you would create a chart to compare your revenues.
Part II: What steps would you use to create your estimates? Based upon your knowledge of restaurants, do you think seasonal sales would be different, and if so, why?
J. You are working as part of a group creating a report on historical education trends in the developing nation of Mali, comparing three related development indicators concerning school enrollment over time. Your task is to format the worksheet containing the historical data, chart the historical education indicators, and make the chart available to your group using SkyDrive. Explain how you would create this worksheet?
K. Discuss the role slide backgrounds, pictures, shapes, and WordArt can play in the effectiveness of a presentation. Are there any disadvantages to using any of these visual elements? If yes, what are they?
L. Consider this scenario: "Your supervisor asks you to prepare a five-slide presentation for a brief executive training session. Company executives have new laptops with PowerPoint 2013 installed and he wants you attend the next training session to discuss PowerPoint document properties and demonstrate how to set them." What information will you include in your presentation?
M. What are the key concepts or foundational theories from the entire eight weeks of class? How does it apply to your current work or academic environment?
N. What are some issues to consider in analyzing a company's resources and opportunities? How do these issues affect marketing objectives and marketing strategy?