Labour force participation rate and unemployment rate
Labour force participation rate and unemployment rate
Macroeconomics
1. The BLS estimates that in 2002, the number of working-age adults was 211.9
million, labour force was 141.8 million, and the total number of employed was 135.1
million. Calculate the following:
a. Labour force participation rate
b. Unemployment rate.
2. What is national income accounting and why is it useful?
Explain how a user could utilize ads to hide data
Assignment: Data-Hiding Techniques
Suppose you are the Chief Security Officer for a financial institution. Someone on your information security staff has informed you that recent Web content filters have shown an end user who has been visiting sites dedicated to alternate data stream (ADS) and steganography hiding techniques. She is interested in what the end user may be doing and comes to you for some explanation on these techniques. Write a two to three page paper in which you:
1. Explain how a user could utilize ADS to hide data and explain other destructive uses which exist for ADS.
2. Determine how rootkits can be used as an alternative for data hiding and explicate why they can be used for this purpose.
3. Describe the processes and tools used by an investigator in determining whether signs of steganography are present in a given situation.
Discuss a minimum of five event types found in a dhcp log
Question :You are a Network Administrator in Net Ambit Inc. The company has one External IP, five servers (Static). One of them handles DHCP (2k3), 12 printers (Static), 175 wired personal computers (PCs) or users (DHCP). This is a new facility or set up and no IPs have been assigned to you.
You”re logged on locally to a user”s computer and your mapping batch file didn”t run and you need to get a file from one of your servers. You have been told that your Internet connection has been set-up and ready for use. You already know how many devices will be connected to your network in the beginning so it”s now time to lay out a plan.
Based on your understanding of the above scenario, create a report in a Microsoft Word document answering the following:
– What plan will you layout in terms of your proposal for listing IP addresses if your first IP is 192.167.1.0 and your last is 192.167.1.255?
You have ten printers that will be used by multiple users.
– What plan will you follow to assign printers to all the users in the organization?
While learning how to read a DHCP Log File, there are various event IDs which detail events.
– Discuss a minimum of five event types found in a DHCP log and describe what they refer to.
Finally, you have 175 PCs that will all be hardwired to the LAN and will each need an IP.
How will you use your network administrator skills and knowledge in assigning IPs to each user?
Technological advancement and structural unemployment
Technological advancement and structural unemployment
Macroeconomics
Corporate America has been accused of spending the last 30 years seeking out ways
to reduce, or increase the efficiencies of its, labor force resource requirements”.
Is this statement an accurate reflection of Corporate America’s ‘modus operandi’?
If so, is this behavior a natural consequence of technological advancement and
structural unemployment? If not, is Corporate America operating under the principle
of “Profit Maximization”?
Cloud computing security policy
Background:
A small non-profit organization (SNPO-MC) has received a grant which will pay 90% of its cloud computing costs for a five year period. But, before it can take advantage of the monies provided by this grant, it must present an acceptable cloud computing security policy to the grant overseers.
Tasking:
You are a cybersecurity professional who is “on loan” from your employer, a management consulting firm, to a small non-profit organization (SNPO-MC). You have been tasked with researching requirements for a Cloud Computing Security Policy and then developing a draft policy for the non-profit organization, SNPO-MC. The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance to managers, executives, and cloud computing service providers. This new policy will supersede (replace) the existing Enterprise IT Security Policy which focuses exclusively upon enterprise security requirements for organization owned equipment (including database servers, Web and email servers, file servers, remote access servers, desktop computers, workstations, and laptop computers) and licensed software applications. The enterprise IT security policy also addresses incident response and disaster recovery.
As part of your policy development task you must take into consideration the issues list which was developed during brainstorming sessions by executives and managers in each of the three operating locations for the non-profit organization.
Your deliverable for this project is a 5 to 8 page, single spaced, professionally formatted draft policy. See the following resources for suggested formats.
https://it.tufts.edu/cloud-pol
https://www.american.edu/policies/upload/IT-Security-Policy-2013.pdf
Organization Profile:
The organization is headquartered in Boston, MA and has two additional operating locations (offices) in New Orleans, LA and San Francisco, CA. Approximately 50 employees work in a formal office setting at one of these locations. These employees use organization owned IT equipment. The remaining 1,000 staff members are volunteers who work from their home offices using personally owned equipment.
The organization provides a variety of management consulting services for its clients (charities and non-governmental organizations) on a fee for service basis. Fees are set on a sliding scale based upon the client’s ability to pay. The organization receives additional funding to support its administrative costs, including IT and IT security, through grants and donations from several Fortune 500 companies.
The non-profit organization is in the process of hiring its first Chief Information Officer. The organization has a small (3 person) professional IT staff that includes one information security specialist. These staff members are located in the Boston headquarters office.
Definitions:
Employees of the organization are referred to as employees.
Executives and other staff who are “on loan” from Fortune 500 companies are referred to as loaned staff members. Loaned staff members usually telework for the organization one to two days per week for a period of one year.
Volunteers who perform work for the organization are referred to as volunteer staff members. Volunteer staff members usually telework from their homes one to two days per week.
Cloud Computing includes but is not restricted to:
· Platform as a Service
· Infrastructure as a Service
· Software as a Service
Issues List:
· Who speaks with authority for the firm?
· Who monitors and manages compliance with laws and regulations?
· Ownership of content
· Privacy and confidentiality
· Enforcement
· Penalties for violations of policy
· Use by sales and marketing
· Use by customer service / outreach
· Use by public relations and corporate communications (e.g. information for shareholders, customers, general public)
· Use for advertising and e-commerce
· Use by teleworkers
· Review requirements (when, by whom)
· Use of content and services monitoring tools
· Content generation and management (documents, email, cloud storage)
Explain cobb-douglas aggregate production function
Explain cobb-douglas aggregate producntion function
economics
Assume a continuous-time solow growth model with no technical progress. The economy
is closed and there is no government sector. Labor supply is given by L_t = e^nt,
n>0. The average propensity to save out of GDP is s,, with 0<s<1. GDP is given by a
Cobb-douglas aggregate producntion function Qt=AK^aL^(1-a), where A is constant.
Solve for steady state of kt where kt=K/L
Suppose the Solow model from this question applies to two seperate economies i=1
and i =2. The economies are the same except for A1>A2 and s1<s2. Let c(i)* and y
(i)* be the steady state consumption per labor and output per labor for economy
i=1,2. Show how C(1)* comparse to c(2)* and how y(1*) compares to y(2)*. (Assume at
equilbrium for both k of each economy such that k1=k2). Then solve for k1>k2 and
k2>k1.
Market structure with one producer completely
Market structure with one producer completely
Macroeconomics
Define what a market structure with one producer completely dominating the
industry, leaving no room for any significant competitors. Barriers to entry tend
to be virtually insurmountable.
Price-discriminating monopolist
Price-discriminating monopolist
Macroeconomics
A price-discriminating monopolist faces the following inverse demand functions:
In Market One it is P1 = 20-Q1 where P1 is the price charged in Market 1 and Q1 is
the quantity demanded in Market one. In Market Two it is P2 = 15-1.5Q2 where P2 is
the price charged in Market 2 and Q2 is the quantity demanded in Market Two.
Marginal cost is constant at $5. Find the profit-maximizing quantity and price
charged in each market. Calculate profit in each market and joint profit.
What would this firm’s price, quantity and profit be if it were constrained to
charge the same price to all consumers?
Use the market-clearing real business cycle model
Use the market-clearing real business cycle model
Macroeconomics
1. Conservative commentators in the US often attribute the slow recovery to market
concerns about what Obama might do in the future. In particular, it is often argued
that people are worried that he might raise taxes and spending in the future, and
that this is holding back the recovery today.
(a) Use the market-clearing Real Business Cycle model developed in chapters 9-11,
to analyze the effects of expectations of higher future government spending and
(lump-sum) taxes. Under what conditions can this explain a slow recovery?
(b) Now suppose that taxes are not lump-sum, but instead have the effect of
reducing incentives and productivity. Explain how this would change your analysis.
Would the ‘Obama effect’ become more or less convincing?
2. There has been much debate among economists about Classical versus Keynesian
business cycle models. It would be nice to be able to distinguish between them.
Some people have argued that we can do this by looking at how employment responds
to productivity shocks. Explain why this is. Compare and contrast what each model
predicts about how employment responds to productivity shocks. If possible, use
graphs to illustrate your answers.
3. There has been much debate among economists about Classical versus Keynesian
business cycle models. It would be nice to be able to distinguish between them.
Some people have argued that we can do this by looking at the correlation between
output and the price level. Explain why this is. Compare and contrast what each
model predicts about the correlation between output and the price level. If
possible, use graphs to illustrate your answers.
4. Use the Keynesian IS-LM model to provide one possible explanation of the recent
financial crisis. Use a graph to illustrate your answer. Describe how monetary and
fiscal policies could be used to respond to the crisis, and discuss the pros and
cons of each
Describe how and why mandatory access control will be used
You are asked to develop the Access Control Policy section of your Information Security Policy. One important aspect to always consider is the budget and don’t be surprised if this changes during your process. Below are detailed breakdowns of what you need to include with each section, I hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions.
For this assignment, chapter 4 is a great resource as well as our class discussions.
User enrollment -remember to include your scenario
• What is user enrollment?
• How and why is this used?
Identification -remember to include your scenario
• What is identification?
• How and why identification is used to identify a user?
• Describe advance techniques used to identify a user?
Authentication – remember to include your scenario
• What is authentication?
• How and why authentication credentials are used to identify and control access to files, screens, and systems?
• Include a discussion of the principles of authentication such as passwords, multifactor authentication, biometrics, and single-sign-on.
Privileged and special account access – remember to include your scenario
• How and why privileged and special account access are used?
• Include group-based and user-assigned privileges.
Remote access – remember to include your scenario
• What is remote access?
• Describe the policies for remote user access and authentication via dial-in user services and Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Access Co
Describe how and why authentication credentials are used to identify and control access to files, screens, and systems. Include a discussion of the principles of authentication such as passwords, multifactor authentication, biometrics, and single-sign-on.
Describe how and why discretionary access control will be used. Include an explanation of how the principle of least privilege applies to assure confidentiality. Explain who the information owner is that has the responsibility for the information and has the discretion to dictate access to that information.
Describe how and why mandatory access control will be used.
Describe how and why role-based access control will be used.
Remote Access
Describe the policies for remote user access and authentication via dial-in user services and Virtual Private Networks (VPN).