Category: Technology

What is the role of a relational database in the Big Data ecosystem? In your opinion, what is the future for relational databases? Explain your reasoning.

Relational Database

What is a relational database?

What is the role of the relational database in an organization today?

What are the main functions of the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)? List at least five functions.

What other types of databases exist today on the market?

What is the fundamental difference between NoSQL and a relational database?

What is the role of a relational database in the Big Data ecosystem?
In your opinion, what is the future for relational databases? Explain your reasoning.

Additional paper requirements:

The paper will follow commonly used guidelines for a research paper (for example, https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/assignments/planresearchpaper/).

What do they already know? How can you make complex ideas and information clear or accessible to readers?

You should cite, fairly summarize, and respond to a real counter-argument. Don’t imagine what an opposing audience might argue—instead, find a real person who makes a real and sophisticated argument, and address it.

It should focus on the readers’ needs—what do they already know? How can you make complex ideas and information clear or accessible to readers?

Explain how your essay contributes to a scholarly or professional conversation about the issue you chose. Does your argument address a gap in that conversation, bring a new solution to it, raise new questions about it, or add something else that enabled you to “join” this conversation?

Advocacy Letter

1. Describe three specific decisions you made to shape the writing of this essay to your audience and in the advocacy letter genre. Identify one or two places in your final essay where a reader could see evidence of these decisions.

2. Explain how your essay contributes to a scholarly or professional conversation about the issue you chose. Does your argument address a gap in that conversation, bring a new solution to it, raise new questions about it, or add something else that enabled you to “join” this conversation?

 Did you have an emotional connection to this particular technology? Why? How did this technology shape your self-conception? Your relationship with others? How did this technology affect your thoughts about yourself and the world?

Project 2: Stage 1 – Technology Timeline

Write a 3-5 sentence caption for each picture that describes how the specific technology influenced your experiences and self-identity at that time in your life.

Did you have an emotional connection to this particular technology? Why? How did this technology shape your self-conception? Your relationship with others? How did this technology affect your thoughts about yourself and the world?

Would you be the same person you are today without this technology? Did any of the technologies covered change you during a specific time of your life? Describe how technology, in general, is a part of who you are based on the artifacts you included in this assignment?

What should Gordon and Barton do about the Ivan Korsky situation? What might Barton be able to learn from the way jazz ensembles work about how to manage top-notch IT talent?

Managing Talent

Read the case attached titled Managing Talent and answer the questions below. Feel free to use any number of sources.

1. What should Gordon and Barton do about the Ivan Korsky situation? What might Barton be able to learn from the way jazz ensembles work about how to manage top-notch IT talent?

2. Should Barton seek a technological way of monitoring what his employees are doing and/or should Barton reorganize the IT function so that the best talent is in a central shared services organization available to the entire organization (rather than only a particular business unit)? What are the pros and cons of such an arrangement?

3. Select a company and develop a problem/opportunity statement and proposed solution in the area of managing talent. To help get started and improve learning, connect the response to something you may already know from your other courses, career path knowledge, or current events.

Briefly describe each term below and reflect on how this technology applies to you. Provide one real-world example for each.

Journal Entry

Briefly describe each term below and reflect on how this technology applies to you. Provide one real-world example for each.
eBusiness Models
B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C
Brick/Click-Mortar, Pure-Play
Revenue models
Wireless Technology
5G, NFC, RFID, WiFi, …
Wearable Tech
Evaluation/Acceptance Criteria
Metrics and KPIs
SMACITR

Describe the Zero Trust Model and its principles related to cyber security, and its efforts to increase wide-ranging security posture of a network. How is it different than other architectures like Defense in Depth?

Zero Trust Architecture: How is it different from previous approaches to IT security?

Describe the Zero Trust Model and its principles related to cyber security, and its efforts to increase wide-ranging security posture of a network. How is it different than other architectures like Defense in Depth?

10 valid sources, 5 of them no more than 3 years old. This means at least 5 of the references must be newer than 3 years old.

Describe the Zero Trust Model and its principles related to cyber security, and its efforts to increase wide-ranging security posture of a network. How is it different than other architectures like Defense in Depth?

Zero Trust Architecture: How is it different from previous approaches to IT security?

Describe the Zero Trust Model and its principles related to cyber security, and its efforts to increase wide-ranging security posture of a network. How is it different than other architectures like Defense in Depth?

-10 valid sources, 5 of them no more than 3 years old. This means at least 5 of the references must be newer than 3 years old.

-Properly cite quoted, derived or paraphrased works

-Do not include the Title, Abstract of Reference pages in the page total.

Discuss the fundamental concepts of network security as they relate to your chosen topic.

Identity Theft and Fraud

In your essay, briefly describe the issue of identity theft and fraud. In addition, you should also include the following.

Discuss the fundamental concepts of network security as they relate to your chosen topic.

Explain how TCP/IP behavior and applications relate to your chosen topic.

Describe the legal sanctions that aim to reduce crime surrounding your chosen topic.

Discuss how cybersecurity professionals can manage the risk associated with your chosen topic.