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Design a cultural competency training workshop

Resources: Social Science Strategies for Managing Diversity: Industrial and Organizational Opportunities to Enhance Inclusion

As the Human Resources Management team, you all are concerned about recent alleged discrimination complaints brought to your attention by several employees based on race, national origin, and pregnancy. You decide it is time to design a cultural competency training workshop for all levels of employees. To accomplish this task, you will need to:

Research several different types of cultural competency workshops, seminars, or Microsoft®PowerPoint® on the topic using a search engine of your choice from the Internet, your texts, or the University Library.

Design a cultural competency training workshop that considers protected classes of employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, suitable for all levels of employees.

Create the training workshop written in the third person voice and the content should be presented as a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation which includes Speaker notes.

Use at least a minimum of three in-text citation sources within the document. The sources must be identified in an APA correctly formatted References page.

Format the cultural competency training workshop consistent with APA guidelines with appropriate APA formatted in-text citations and Reference page.

Difference between logistics management and supply chain

Analyze and conclude whether there is a difference between logistics management and supply chain management.

Explain what is the best solution to the obesity epidemic

what do you think is the best solution to the obesity epidemic? what roles can the food and restaurant industries, trial attorneys, government policymakers and regulators, and individual consumers play in a solution, if any?

Evaluate the system for a fire demand

Task Description:Task Description:
Analyzing a simple pipeline is straight forward, but when multiple pipe systems are encountered it can become complex and the computational effort increases substantially. Because of the systematic way in which a network can be analyzed, computational software is increasingly used to solve for the flow distribution and pressures within the network. You are to analyze and provide design alternative for the pipe network for the city of Huntington.
Existing Network Analysis: Perform the following analyses
• Using WaterGEMS, solve the system shown in Figure 1.- Details for pipe characteristics are listed in the associated table- Use the Pump Characteristic Curve Provided in Figure 2
• Evaluate the system at peak demand where all element demands are 125% larger (i.e., multiply given flows by 2.25).
• Evaluate the system for a fire demand of 500 gpm under peak demand.
Based on the results, comment on the performance of the existing system. It should operate between 30 psig and 140 psig for all normal operating conditions (including peak flow) and should deliver the fire demand at a minimum of 15 psig. Assessing the impact of uncertainty is a critical aspect. For this system, uncertainty exists in the methodological approach for accounting for frictional losses. You must use both the Hazen-Williams and Darcy Weisbach method in order to generate uncertainty bounds for your solution.
Alternatives Design Analysis:
If conditions are not met, present two alternative designs for upgrading the network to ensure successful operation within the pressure requirements. In doing so the original system should be maintained (e.g., pipe diameter, length, roughness parameters). However, you may add additional components including new pumps, reservoirs, parallel lines, etc.
Economic Analysis:
A simple economic analysis is to be conducted based on your alternatives design to assist in making conclusions and recommendations. Be sure to include costs for pumps, reservoirs, lines added to the network, installation costs, etc. Cite your sources for costs of specific items.Writing Application:
A one page progress report detailing the results from the system performance operating under normal demand conditions, peak flow conditions and peak flow with fire demand will be due March 15th. For the final report (Due Thursday, April 7’h) a two-page maximum technical memo to introduce and summarize the situation, problems, assumptions and recommendations is required.
For the final report you must turn in the following:
1. All computational results tabulated for each network analysis as well as the economic analysis (provided in the Appendix)
2. A narrative statement in the appendix describing the pipe network analytical method (e.g., the software you used, overview of Hardy-Cross, frictional loss calculation methods).
3. A well-organized memo (2 page maximum) reporting your analysis and results.
Figure 1: Existing water distribution network with average daily demands for the city of hunigton.
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Discuss the advantages of some of the current technologies

Internet and the Web?

The Internet and the Web are not the same thing. What is the difference between the Internet and the Web? Let’s discuss what the Internet is and how many kinds of traffic, including Web traffic, can run on the Internet. What are the key technologies the Internet is based on?

Internet Tools

Discuss the advantages of some of the current technologies described in our reading this week including VoIP, Unified Communications, Virtual Private Networks, Wi-Fi and wireless technologies like RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks. Are there risks associated with any of these tools?

Explain peer-to-peer network verses a client-server network

Managing Client/Server Environments

Health Care HQ has a client-server network architecture. The chief information officer (CIO) wants to understand the difference between a client-server and a peer-to-peer network. She also wants to know why she should choose one over the other. You have been asked to provide a document that discusses the networks at Health Care HQ.

Comprehensive Analysis and Review

In a document of 2-3 pages, you will provide the following:

• Explain a peer-to-peer network verses a client-server network. Because your system is strictly Windows, your document should concentrate on the networking features of Windows Server (e.g., file sharing, print sharing, user administration, application server, Dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP], domain name system [DNS], and backing up data).

• Include a recommendation about which Microsoft server Health Care HQ should use (i.e., Windows 2008 or Windows 2012), and explain your choice.

Planning an application server migration

Imagine you are working for a large international purchasing company that has just bought a growing local company that manufactures western wear at several locations (it’s a group of cottage industries; remember from the other scenarios that it now has eight (8) satellite offices, four (4) large and four (4) small ones). The previous owner, Sam Yosemite, tells his IT team to provide support and information to your IT staff to help with the transition to your forest domain. Gathering information from the other writing assignment descriptions, decide the best ways to bring the “Wild Frontier” network into your domain, “Foghorn Leghorn” and migrate to your current standards.

The business acquisition is largely superficial and the existing personnel structures will remain in place. You have to bring the “Wild Frontier” under the “Foghorn Leghorn” domain and make sure production needs are met at all the satellite locations. Your budget is fairly generous due to allocated funds for the transition, but will likely be much more constrained in the future. Take maintenance costs (both money and man-hours) into consideration as you design your solutions.

The same design requirements specified in the writing assignments (support, hours of operation, remote staff, Internet access, and sensitive file access) still apply, but disk space management is no longer as much of a concern and being part of a large company brings economies of scale to licensing purchases; take advantage of these. Department cost allocation is even more of a priority. Providing shooting targets (large paper reports) for Sam is no longer a need (the managers celebrate).

workstations will all be standardized and provided with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Use those to your best advantage for standardization and support staff man-hour savings while still addressing control over users’ access of unapproved media services and applications.
Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page technical paper which covers the following:
Suggest how to use Terminal Services to help meet criteria for providing applications and support for the remote offices.
Determine how application pools will help to reduce costs. Be specific in your configuration specifications.
Formulate how using AD groups and NTFS permissions should best be configured for security and appropriate access.
Evaluate how you might use Windows SharePoint Services to provide support for the additional remote offices and help prevent duplication of work.
Examine how you can use high-availability technologies to manage costs.
Propose how you will take advantage of the change in licensing considerations.
Provide a plan to manage network load balancing and avoid slowdowns in performance as much as possible.
Determine what considerations you will take into account for your printer requirements.
Use Visio or a similar tool to depict graphically the physical and logical layout of your plan. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

Create a program that estimates the radio signal strength

Lab- Exercises

Lab is a modified version of Lab 4. The requirements that applied to Lab 4 also apply to Lab 7. You may
reuse the Lab 4 pseudocode and Visual Logic files, rename them and modify them to produce the Lab 7 files.

Lab Implementation Requirements

• Add a module that outputs the message: For the computer located n feet from the AP, the signal strength is: range

Where:

N = the distance from the computer to the AP (in ft, integer values, e.g., 2, 5, 100, etc.).

Range = the estimated radio signal strength, expressed as a range.

An example of an actual message is: For the computer located 10 feet from the AP, the signal strength is: 100-80%

The module requires two parameters (n and range), which are used to output the message. Call the module in the appropriate places, in the pseudocode and the Visual Logic files.

Lab Expected Submittals

1. The Visual Logic program (50%).

2. Formal pseudocode (following the book syntax, proper indentation, with variable declarations, etc.). Use Notepad++ to create the pseudocode (*.txt file) (50%).

In a wireless SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) network, the strength of the radio signal is (among others) a function of the distance between the wireless Access Point (AP) (e.g., a wireless router) and the computers wirelessly connected to the network. The longer the distance between the AP and a computer, the weaker the radio signals.

Assume that the wireless SOHO network is based on the IEEE 802.11g protocol, case in which the approximate maximum range between the AP and the computers is 125 ft.

Create a program that estimates the radio signal strength (%) – a range – for computers stationed at different distances (ft) from the AP. In your design use 5 distance zones, and proportionally assign to them signal strength ranges (%). For example, for a computer situated 10 ft away from the AP, the estimated radio signal strength would be 100 – 80%.

Program Inputs:

• The distance from the computer to the AP (in ft, integer values, e.g., 2, 5, 100, etc.).

Program Outputs:

• The estimated signal strength (%) – a range.

Program requirements:

• The program must implement at a minimum three modules (or more if needed)

• During a single run, the program must be able to process multiple inputs.

• The prompt for data input is user-friendly (i.e., the user of the program does not see the program’s variable names).

• Given that it is unknown how many data inputs the user will provide to the program, upon start, display a message letting the user know how to terminate the current execution of the program.

• The program must display a title on the Visual Logic’s console.

• Program outputs are displayed on the Visual Logic’s console – one line after another, with user-friendly labels.

Expected Submittals

3. The Visual Logic program (50%).

4. Formal pseudocode (following the book syntax, proper indentation, with variable declarations, etc.). Use Notepad++ to create the pseudocode (*.txt file) (50%).

IMPORTANT NOTE 1: If your Visual Logic code uses compound Boolean operators, make sure you read the TIP on page 26, in the Visual Logic book.

IMPORTANT NOTE 2: Test your program with multiple distance values, to insure that the outputs (the corresponding signal strength ranges) are correct. In your design you must consider which signal strength value the program will display, when the distance between a computer and the AP is longer than 125 feet.

Research a metro ethernet service

Research a Metro Ethernet service that is offered by a vendor in your country (or another country if your country doesn’t have Metro Ethernet). Write a one to two (1-2) page paper that describes the service in technical terms. Make sure to include pricing information. You may need to contact the provider to obtain this information.

Explain the basic components and media of network systems

Assignment: Network Consultation for DesignIT

This assignment contains two Sections: Network Consultation Proposal and Network Consultation Presentation. You must submit both sections as separate files in order to complete this assignment.

The owners of DesignIT, who recently purchased 56’x36′ space for their expanding business, have asked you to place a bid on a consulting job. DesignIT is a graphic arts company that, up until now, had contracted work out to temporary design services. The new space will allow them to hire two full time designers and a receptionist.

Description of space purchased:
? 4 Cubicles
? 1 Office
? 1 Server room
? 1 Reception desk
? 1 Conference room

Below is the design of the space purchased:

Using the building layout, your role is to provide DesignIT with a network design that interconnects the following considerations:

? DesignIT plans to relocate three (3) servers already configured as follows:
? 1 Web Server – Microsoft IIS Server
? 1 File Server – Microsoft Server 2008
? 1 Server – Server 2008 Small Business Server
? DesignIT has requested that the design include the following:
? High speed Internet access
? Firewall
? Antivirus / malware protection
? Six computers
? Three color laser printers
? Wireless access for portable devices
? DesignIT has requested the consideration of all interconnected devices and wiring, along with speeds, for best performance.

Section 1: Network Consultation Proposal

(Microsoft Word)

Create a cost analysis, and develop a proposal for the company.

1 Write an five to seven page proposal in which you:

a Recommend one suitable network design.
b Suggest one network architecture.
c Suggest LAN and Wireless LAN (WLAN) wiring considerations.
d Recommend hardware options and costs.
e Suggest security considerations for:

i Firewall
ii Antivirus software

f Recommend software options and costs.
g Outline the labor costs, equipment costs, and service costs for your suggested design in table format.
h Identify the single point of failure, and recommend potential mitigation strategies.
i Use at least three quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Section 1 of your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

? Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

? Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

Section 2: Network Consultation Presentation

(Microsoft PowerPoint or equivalent)

Use Microsoft PowerPoint or an open source alternative to present your findings to the client.

2 Create a five to ten slide presentation in which you:

a Outline the recommendations from your written proposal in Section 1.
b Provide general speaking notes that you would use to highlight non-visual content.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

? Explain the basic components and media of network systems and distinguish between LANs, MANs, and WANs.

? Summarize current networking standards and how standards bodies and the standardization process impact networking technology.

? Describe the TCP / IP protocols and various functions among the application layer.

? Contrast why different technologies are deployed in different contexts of networking, such as topology, bandwidth, distance, and number of users.

? Explain and differentiate among network hardware devices and components.

? Compare and contrast among network operating systems.

? Describe security policy, practices, encryption techniques, and design considerations in support of business operations in a networked environment.

? Explain the role of integrity and availability in a networked environment.

? Use technology and information resources to research issues in computing networks.

Write clearly and concisely about introductory networking topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.