Discussion: Roles and Responsibilities in IT

 

In this module, you are learning about various IT disciplines, roles, and responsibilities in the field, and the certifications and degrees that equip you for those roles. In this discussion, you will examine various IT roles to find one of interest to you. You will learn about the skills and technologies used in these roles and how they can be transferred to other IT disciplines.

For your initial post, use a website such as the Bureau of Labor and Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook or CompTIA’s Cyberstates Interactive Map to determine your areas of interest in the IT field. Then, choose a job title or role in that area of interest. In your post, describe how this role is situated within the broader IT fields discussed in this unit, and define the responsibilities of the role.

In your responses to your peers, discuss the job title or role they chose. In your response, describe the tools, skills, and certifications your peer would need to be successful in the identified role. Additionally, describe at least one other role that these skills and certifications could be used in.

To complete this assignment, review the Discussion Rubric.

Computer Crime

Use examples from the readings, lecture notes and outside research to support your answers. The assignment must be a minimum of 1-full page in length with a minimum of 2 outside sources. Please be sure to follow APA guidelines for citing and referencing sources. Assignments are due by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on Sunday.

1. The term computer crime encompasses a very broad range of criminal acts. Explain in detail the four categories of computer crime. Use examples to support your explanations.

RS

or this project, select an organization that has leveraged Cloud Computing technologies in an attempt to improve profitability or to give them a competitive advantage.  Research the organization to understand the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.  The paper should include the following sections each called out with a header.
• Company Overview:  The section should include the company name, the industry they are in and a general overview of the organization.
• Challenges: Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage Cloud Computing to overcome their challenges.
• Solution:  Describe the organization’s Cloud Computing implementation and the benefits they realized from the implementation.  What was the result of implementing Cloud Computing?  Did they meet their objectives for fall short?
• Conclusion:  Summarize the most important ideas from the paper and also make recommendations or how they might have achieved even greater success.Requirements:The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages.  There should be at least three scholarly sources listed on the reference page.  Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give credit where due.  Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches.  The body of the paper should be 3 – 5 pages in length.  The Title and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirements.

End search 1

Research project manager’s positions and please post the following. Please do not copy and paste from web sites.

  1. Find three different job postings in the area you live in for a Project Manager. What are the items in the three job ads that are the same? Are there any major differences? Also, look up how much a project manager earns in your area. 
  2. In your opinion was any of the information that you uncovered in your search interesting or surprising?

2 questions – Each question needs 3 answers – with 1 APA reference for each answer – Each answer atleast 200 words

 Discussion 1: Examine Alexa’s skill in ordering drinks from Starbucks (i.e. What is the development of the skills?  (From what to what level of features). 

 Discussion 2: Research Apple Home Pod. How does it interact with smart home devices?  Alexa is now connected to smart home devices such as thermostats and microwaves. Find examples of other appliances that are connected to Alexa and write a report. 

Discussion post – Qualitative research methods

 

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400–500 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. Be substantive and clear and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

There are numerous times when the information collected from a real organization will not conform to the requirements of a parametric analysis. That is, a practitioner would not be able to analyze the data with a t-test or F-test (ANOVA).

Presume that a young professional has read about tests—such as the Chi-Square, the Mann-Whitney U test, the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test, and the Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance—and wants to know when it is appropriate to use each test, what the test is used for, and why each would be used instead of the t-tests and ANOVA. How would you address this young person’s concerns?

​Timeline Assignment

 Timeline AssignmentInstructions

  1. Do you have the two Dr. Evil E01 images downloaded to your computer? If not, please do this.
  2. Did you already download and install Autopsy on your workstation? If not, please do this. Also, don’t forget to watch the video on using Autopsy if you are not familiar with it. Note – the tool is very intuitive so you should not have problems with it.
  3. Ingest (load) the two E01 images into Autopsy by selecting File à Add Data Source. If you are not sure what is the data source– then select the Disk Image data source and you can browse to the E01 images. 
  4. Autopsy will then process the images. This should take about 10-20 minutes.

  1. Now click on the Timeline button on top of the Autopsy GUI and then familiarize yourself with the environment before answering these questions for total of 50 points. This timeline functionality is extremely powerful so click everywhere. Check out the different options. Right click a file and see what options are existing. I think you will be able to immediately grasp the possibilities of how you can pivot to a very specific MINUTE. See sample screenshot.

Questions (100 points)

  1. What website was searched on 8-25-2004?
  2. What was search query used on that website on 8-25-2004. Please provide screenshots.
  3. What websites were visited on 8-27-2004?. Please provide screenshots.
  4.  There was email activity on 07-27-1992. What was that email activity? Please provide screenshots.
  5. You want proof that Dr. Evil used Ghostware and you think it was done in August 2004. When exactly was this? Please provide screenshots.
  6. What software / driver is keys.text associated with? Please provide screenshots.
  7. Please send me a snapshot report.

linux

 For this discussion board you will need to research some best practices in allocating hardware you virtual machines. In your initial post make sure to identify what your research showed as a best practice and if it is hypervisor specific be sure to include the hypervisor.   Your initial post needs to be at least 250 words  

 For this lab you will research and compare the features of the various commercial Type 1 hypervisors available on the market.   You will choose at least 3 Type 1 hypervisors and look at the features, hardware requirements and options and write up a comparison between them.  Ultimately after you have written up your comparison you need to make a recommendation as to which hypervisor you would use and explain why.  Write up your research including references and submit it for a grade