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Assignment: 

Describe how organizational culture is related to project management. What type of culture promotes a strong project environment? Please give a specific example.

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You are required to respond to the assignment question posted above with no less than 200 words.To support your response you are required to provide at least one supporting reference with proper citation. Your response will be reviewed by Unicheck, the plagiarism tool synced to Canvas.

Examine the elements required by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a breach notification plan for federal agencies and develop a checklist to address the compliance requirements. 

In this work, you play the role of an inspector general. You’ve been given the task work of reviewing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) breach notification plan requirements and submitting a checklist to senior management regarding the steps necessary to comply. You need to review the breach notification plan requirements and create a checklist to be submitted to senior management. The checklist should identify all OMB requirements for a breach notification plan, along with an example of actions that could be taken to comply with the requirement.

Submission Requirements

• Format: Microsoft Word
• Font: Arial 10-point size, Double-space
• Citation Style: Follow your school’s preferred style guide
• Length: Minimum 500 words

Evaluation Criteria and Rubric

1. Identify all elements of the OMB breach      notification plan requirements
2. Provide an example of how each OMB requirement could be met

Need to solve data mining questions attached below

270 words+

How do information technology professionals and everyone else differ in their ethics with respect to information technology? Discuss differences if from both library resources and your opinion.

Please site references if they are used.

• Which set of Authentication Elements (something you know; something you are; something you have) is strongest? Why?

PROJECT 2: WHAT-IF ANALYSIS

OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate your understanding of the following course concepts:

1. Analyzing data with Goal Seek.
2. Using What-If Analysis tools.
3. Using Solver.
4. Using Scenarios.
5. Summary Reports.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION
PART 1
The automatic recalculation feature of Excel is a powerful tool that can be used to analyze worksheet data. What-if analysis is a decision-making tool in which changing input values recalculate formulas, in order to predict various possible outcomes. When new data is entered, Goal seek is a problem-solving method in which you specify a solution and then find the input value that produces the answer you want.

You are assisting Tony Sanchez, the office manager at Riverwalk Medical Clinic, with a disaster recovery plan for the medical records at the clinic. As part of that plan you are looking at two options for storing backup medical records. The first option is to purchase a storage facility, and the second is to use a third-party backup storage company that offers off-site small, medium, and large storage areas. In both cases, you want to keep your monthly payments below $17,000. You decide to use Goal Seek to look at various interest rates for purchasing a storage facility and to use Solver to help find the best possible combination of third-party storage areas. You will be working with the attached file: EX_2.1.xlsx.

1. Open the fie EX_2.1xlsx and save it as Project2.1_Records.xlsx.
2. With the Purchase Sheet active, use Goal Seek to find the payment for an interest rate of 5.75% on a Loan amount of $750,000 for 60 months. Use an additional loan amount of your choice with an interest rate of 6% to find the monthly payment for 48 months.
3.  Activate the Rental Sheet. Open Solver, then use the Set Objective To option to maximize the storage amount in cell B12. (Hint: Select Max in the Set the Objective To area.).
4. In Solver, use the quantity, cells B6:D6, as the changing cells.
5. Add a constraint to Solver specifying the quantity in cells B6:D6 must be integers.
6. Add a constraint specifying that the total monthly payment amount in cell B11 is less than or equal to 17,000.
7. Generate a solution using Solver and accept Solver’s solution.
8. Save the workbook and submit to the Assignment Folder.

PART 2
As a senior financial analyst at North Shore CPA Services, you are researching various options for financing a $250,000 loan for the purchase of a new estate-planning facility. You haven’t decided whether to finance the project for three, four, or five years. Each loan term carries a different interest rate. To help with the comparison, you summarize these options using a Scenario Summary. You will be working with the file EX_2.2.xls.

1. Open the fie EX_2.2.xlsx and save it as Project2.2_Loans.xlsx.
2. Create cell names for cells B4:B11 based on the labels in cells A4:A11, using the Create Names from Selection dialog box.
3. Use Scenario Manager to create scenarios that calculate the monthly payment on a loan amount of your choice under the three sets of loan possibilities listed below in Figure 1. For instance, in Figure 2 below, the loan amount of $250,000 was used. Note: You cannot use the loan amount of $250,000. (Hint: Create three scenarios, using cells B5:B6 as the changing cells.

FIGURE 1: SCENARIO, INTEREST RATES & TERMS

SCENARIO NAME

INTEREST RATE

TERMS (MONTHS)

5% 5 year

5

60

4% 4 year

4

48

3% 3 year

3

36

FIGURE 2: NORTH SHORE CPA SERVICES

NORTH SHORE CPA SERVICES

Financing Options

Loan Amount

$250,000.00

Annual Interest Rate

5.00%

Term in Months

60

Monthly Payment:

$4,717.81

Total Payments:

$283,068.50

Total Interest:

$33,068.50

4. View each scenario and confirm that it performs as intended, then display the 5% 5 Year scenario.
5. Generate a scenario summary titled Finance Options. Use cells B9:B11 as the Result cells.
6. Format the range B9:B11 as currency with two decimal places.
7. Delete the Current Values column in the report and the notes at the bottom of the report, Row 1, and column A.
8. Rename the sheet Estate Planning Project and assign a color of your choice.
9. Enter your name in the center footer section of both worksheets.

After finishing our reading assignment, let’s just jump right into simulations. In this discussion I want you to tell me briefly how would you design a simulation project to study COVID-19 spread on a university campus. The general goal is obvious – try to predict how quickly would the disease spread under various scenarios.

Questions to keep in mind: What elements would your simulation model? What things do you think are important to consider, and how do you think we can implement them? What would be the inputs into your simulation? What parameters do you want to alter for “what if” scenarios?

Remember, this is our first week, we are not supposed to know much, so just show me your thought on the matter. I will not be grading harshly (as long as I see that you put some thought in it). Also, keep it brief (about a “page”), we do not want a full blown project yet.

  In 500 words discussing discussing how a blockchain implementation would improve data security in a military, education, or other context. 

Use the five-paragraph format. Each paragraph must have at least five sentences. Include 3 quotes with quotation marks and cited in-line and in a list of references. Include an interesting meaningful title.

minimum 350 words and Maximum 500 words count

Topic – Impacts of Leadership in a 20 Year Microsoft Organization

An important step in a dissertation is the theoretical basis that might help explain and shed light on why the problem is happening. For example, if we want to know how different groups responded to the implementation of a new teaching strategy in higher education, you might consider theories related to adult learning. 

Discuss the theoretical framework you think helps explains your topic and problem you will address in your dissertation. Remember, this will also be cited in the literature as well, so make sure to include scholarly resources from a peer reviewed journal.

Your initial posting is to be a detailed, well-organized response to the posed question. In addition to your initial posting, respond to one other classmate’s thread.