Information System

In this discussion, you will have an opportunity to make connections between your prior knowledge and the new content you are learning this week. Use your results from this week’s Build Your Proficiency Diagnostic to provide context for your prior knowledge and consider the new content about paying for college, repaying student loans, and planning and saving for retirement as you respond to the discussion prompt. Also, review the iGrad resources for content about paying for college and repaying loans.Respond to at least three of the following questions in a minimum of 175 words:Identify one concept from the Build Your Proficiency diagnostic from Chapters 10 and 11 that you scored lowest in. How might this concept be important to your personal finances? Why would you want to know more about this?Enter your information into this Retirement Income Calculator from Bankrate to estimate how much monthly income you may have during retirement (be sure to expand the “Investment returns” section to edit those fields as needed). Enter your current savings information or what you plan to do after graduation. What did the results show you about your retirement? What steps can you take to save and invest in your future now?In the Wk 4 Learning Path, complete Interactive Figure: How Risk Averse Are You? in WileyPLUS. What did the results showIn the Wk 4 Learning Path, complete Interactive Figure: Behavioral Biases and Retirement Planning in WileyPLUS. Which biases did you find influence your decisions?If you are using federal student loans to pay for college, what will your standard monthly payment be? If that amount is not affordable, what options are available to reduce or postpone payments?How might a college education affect your long-term financial plan? Consider future income and loan repayment in your response.

Write a discussion post on following three topics. Each one should be in a separate file, each post should have 2 (scholarly) journal citations, min 300 words each, additional requirements also specified below:Discussion 1:Watch the following video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHc63Xgc0-8Answer the following:What are your takeaways from these videos?How can you prepare for the day when indeed humans may not need to apply for many jobs?What are the pros and cons of UBI and SIS?Discussion 2):Explain how GDSS can increase some benefits of collaboration and decision making in groups and eliminate or reduce some losses.Please make your posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:· Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic· Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor· Provide extensive additional information on the topic· Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail· Share an applicable personal experience· Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)· Make an argument concerning the topic.Run you submission through grammar check before submitting.At least 2 (scholarly) journal source should be used for each post.Make your references in correct APA 7 format and cite each reference at least once, but as many times as you rely on it. Citations support each sentence relying on a reference, not an entire paragraph. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations. Initial posts need to be 300 words minimum .

View the Port of Los Angeles 4-part documentary and read the material in the Owens Valley water website, https://www.inyowater.org/documents/reports/owens-valley-water-history-chronology/. Simply answer this question. Based on what you have learned and/or know about fiscal capacity and Tragedy of the Commons should the City of Los Angeles exist in its present form when considering its inherent geographic location and natural resources? Note: it was an arid semi-desert pueblo before 1900.The discussion and original post will occur in groups.Each discussion’s original post into the group DB should be a minimum of 300 words in length and the responses to another colleague in the Group DB should approximate 200 words.

Network Interface Cards (NIC), Media Access Control (MAC) Address Format, Unicast and Broadcast Traffic, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), and ARP Cache Utility. Explain what they are, their function, and illustrate their relationship to each other.Please DO NOT USE outside sources or quote your book directly for these discussion – summarize what you want to say in your own words and use examples to illustrate your meaning. This will allow me to gage how well you understand the concepts. I want you to think not just memorize.

iscussion Question:The use of smart phones is growing rapidly. What could be the possible limitations of using a smart phone instead of a traditional laptop? Identify at least two limitations. Are these limitations surmountable?There is currently no standardization in the operating system (OS) used in a cell phone. What problems does this pose to the use of cell phones for serious m-commerce such as banking? Provide a possible solution along with a sound rationale to overcome the problems without the requirement of imposing a standard.Consider the case of mobile computing used to automate checkout at a retail store, where a mobile device identifies its owner and a device such as RFID on each of the products being purchased identifies the products and automatically bills the customer for the products in his/her cart. What issues can you foresee with technological limitations when two customers leave at the same time? What ethical issues must be addressed to prevent charging another customer for goods purchased by someone malicious? Justify whether these issues can be addressed, and if so, how?

Write a discussion post on following three topics. Each one should be in a separate file, each post should have 2 (scholarly) journal citations, min 300 words each, additional requirements also specified below:Discussion 1:Malicious individuals have discovered several methods to attack and defeat cryptosystems. It’s important that understand the threats posed by cryptographic attacks to minimize the risks to your network systems.Identify one cryptographic attack and how you can protect against it.?Discussion 2):Excel is probably the most popular spreadsheet software for PCs. Why? What can we do with this package that makes it so attractive for modeling efforts?Discussion 3):What are the common business problems addressed by Big Data analytics? In the era of Big Data, are we about to witness the end of data warehousing? Why?Please make your posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:· Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic· Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor· Provide extensive additional information on the topic· Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail· Share an applicable personal experience· Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)· Make an argument concerning the topic.Run you submission through grammar check before submitting.At least 2 (scholarly) journal source should be used for each post.Make your references in correct APA 7 format and cite each reference at least once, but as many times as you rely on it. Citations support each sentence relying on a reference, not an entire paragraph. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations. Initial posts need to be 300 words minimum .

Examine IoT systems and how they may assist people with special needs. Special needs individuals is a broad term that could encompass a wide variety of individuals ranging from those who are deaf/hard of hearing, have vision issues, or have other different abilities that will affect how they use computing devices.Part A)You should begin by reading the work by Ferati et al. that discusses requirements gathering for users with special needs. For this first part of this assignment, you will take a position on the arguments made in this paper, and examine the following:What position does the paper take? What are some of the primary arguments they are making, and what reasons do they have for backing up these claims?Do you agree with the position taken in this paper? Use external sources to back up your argument.How could the paper be improved? How could you expand upon this work?This assignment will serve to help acclimate you to some of the challenges faced by special needs computing users.Part B)For the second part of this week’s assignment, you should propose a new way in which IoT devices can help a group of users with special needs. Your proposal should include:What group(s) of special needs users do you intend to target? Define the group(s) and the challenges encountered by the group(s).How will the IoT device assist this special needs group?Demonstrate a development plan. How will you accomplish your goals?What risks will you encounter, and how will you overcome them?How will you measure the effectiveness of this proposal?Be sure to include external references (at least 5) to support your proposal.Lengths: Position paper: 2-3 pages; New IoT proposal: 1-2 pages; Total: 3-5 pages, not including title page and referencesYour paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course and provide new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy.

Practical Connection :Subject Name: Emerging Threats & Countermeasit is a priority that students are provided with strong educational programs and courses that allow them to be servant-leaders in their disciplines and communities, linking research with practice and knowledge with ethical decision-making. This assignment is a written assignment where students will demonstrate how this course research has connected and put into practice within their own IT career.Assignment:Provide a reflection of (or 3 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study.Requirements:Provide a (or 3 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment.You should not, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace.Any use of outside sources, including your own prior work, will result in a zero on the activity and a report being filed with Academic Affairs regarding plagiarism (even if self-plagiarism).

1. What is privacy?2. What risks, if any, does facial recognition software raise?3. How much information about you can be found on-line with a simple google search?4. How much information about you can be found by searching government and commercial databases?5. Describe informed consent.6. Should secondary use of consumer provided data be available without notice to the consumer?7. How do data mining and predictive analytics work?8. Watch this Science Friday video by Ira Flatow. And, offer your opinion – Are advancing algorithms taking our free will?9. Should Facebook be regulated, at least as far as it’s privacy and data policies?10. How many public cameras is too many?

Read the attached PDF article entitled, “How Blockchain Technology Can Benefit Marketing: Six Pending Areas Research Areas”After reading the article in full, select one of the mentioned six areas of research and write an article reflection minimum 8-9 maximum page paper identifying the following;1) Describe and provide the overall research area mentioned in the article in a synopsis2) What did the article state in how Blockchain can benefit that marketing area overall?3) What further research did the article recommend?4) What do you think can be the approach to further research the topic? What approach would you recommend to take and what type of research method would make sense?5) What is an example of a company that you believe would benefit from this type of research and why?6) Outside of Blockchain, what other pieces of marketing technology can help this area?7) What do you recommend is the best way to approach for a company to implement this area of research into their company?NOTE: for all the questions above, just pick one research area, and first part- give summary and stick to the same topic while answering all the 7 questions. Choose a company and relate that area to the company.