Dependability of network infrastructures has become top priority

Within an organization, the dependability of network infrastructures has become top priority. The fundamentals of how this infrastructure works within the organization requires a systems thinking mindset and the ability to properly develop an analysis plan. You have been tasked with analyzing the current network architecture of the organization and determining any key changes that should occur as the organization prepares for future growth. You will evaluate traffic patterns to determine critical aspects of your business and provide basic insight into what should be done to the network from a capability aspect and from a security viewpoint as the organization prepares for future growth. Ultimately, you will recommend a design for the future network architecture of the organization.

Prompt
For this milestone, you will create a project analysis plan. Your plan will identify the network applications of the current network including a description of how the current network is designed by explaining how the different layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model relate to each other within the network.

Refer to the following files when completing this milestone:

Organizational Network Diagram – Current
Dallas Office Network Diagram – Current
Memphis Office Network Design – Current
To complete this assignment, address the following critical elements:

Identify the network applications that are a part of the current network.
Identify and label the components of the network with the appropriate OSI network layer(s) (refer to the Organizational Network Diagram – Current file)
Provide a nontechnical description of the role and functions of key components, including routers, switches, and firewalls.
Provide a brief analysis of the current network configuration in terms of day-to-day business operations. Consider the following questions as a guide to your analysis:
What is the impact of losing connectivity between the Dallas router and the Memphis router? Which applications might be impacted between locations?
What is the risk of just having a single router or switch within the Memphis office?
How effective is the firewall in the current network?
Summarize the project requirements and deliverables

Gender Performance

This essay is about Gender Performance. I had to pick an artist relevant to this topic. Artist Roxana Hall. https://www.google.com/url?
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Main topic: How artist (Roxana Hall) challenges the gender norms and gender stereotypes. In this paper you want to think about: What do various artworks, their media/medium, or the means of their production and dissemination tell us about power relations, gender relations, about our desires or social relations, how does art challenge or promote these social values?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword. A future is imagined where machines can “think”. Using artificial intelligence to perform rote tasks which, in nature, do not inspire, are boring or dangerous, is one presumed benefit. One downside is that artificial intelligence would more generally assume tasks previously confined to human intelligence. Today, AI programs can write poetry and design graphics that can compete with those produced by human actors. This doesn’t mean that AI surpasses a human consciousness but rather that the efficiency of AI would be consciously chosen to replace or relieve the person of their intelligence and their subjectivity. Ask an AI program why a person would design and implement it.

Using the History and Systems of Psychology—structuralism (Wundt), functionalism (James), behaviorism (Pavlov, Watson, Skinner, Tolman), Gestalt, Personality Theory (Allport, Cattell, Erickson, Big Five) Humanistic (Maslow) and depth psychology (Freud & Jung)—work-through the possible motive of such a “choice” or the resistance to it. Use the historical theories of mind to support your exploration.

The purpose of the question is to help you use what we have learned this semester about psychology as applied to a prominent aspect of our current psychological life. It is meant to incite your own intelligence as framed by the class material. Have fun. Be bold.

The United States Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010.

 

(1) Differentiate quality issues, methods, and accreditation and rating systems used in hospitals or other healthcare entities.

(2) What lean principles did Nebraska Medical Center use in its process transformation? How were those principles applied?

(3) The United States Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. What provision in the Act has become the most important in melding quality and cost?

 

DESIGNING MIXED METHODS RESEARCH

You may be familiar with the many design ideas for fuel-efficient cars and their gas-saving engines. Some designs include cars that run on alternatives to traditional gasoline, such as biofuels, hydrogen, or electrical charge. However, the design with the greatest initial success has been the hybrid engine. As you may know, these engines use some gasoline and also use batteries that gain a charge from the energy produced by the car’s brakes.

This week’s readings provide an overview of various types of mixed methods research designs. As with previous discussions on design, the selection of the most appropriate mixed design is guided by the study’s purpose and research questions and/or hypotheses. The choice of design links the research questions and/or hypotheses to the data that will be collected achieving alignment among research components.

explore the basics of mixed methods research designs, calling upon your growing understanding of both quantitative and qualitative research.

Post your response to the question, “To what extent is mixed methods research simply taking a quantitative design and a qualitative design and putting them together?” Next, explain the types of research questions best served by mixed methods research. Then, explain one strength and one limitation of mixed methods research. Finally, provide a rationale for or against the utility of mixed methods research in your discipline.

Compensation

Write an APA paper explaining your new compensation strategy for the mid-level manager position you still need to fill. Your audience is the chief executive officer (CEO) and other supervisors in your organization. In this work, include the items listed below.

After a brief introduction, explain how equal employment opportunity laws impact the organization’s compensation strategy.
Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of pay-for-performance and competency-based pay. What strategy would you recommend for your organization, and why?
Explain how various motivational theories can factor into your development of a multi-generational compensation package for your whole organization that includes indirect benefits. Be sure to give specific examples of how different generations of applicants or employees will be affected.
Explain your proposed compensation package, which should include direct and indirect benefits and how the package will affect hiring and retention. Be sure to specifically identify how much you will pay the mid-level managers, and indicate how it compares to your state and the federal minimum wage. You can search the Internet for sites that list comparable pay data. You should identify a low, medium, and high pay range for the mid-level manager.
Explain how you will assess the effectiveness of the compensation strategy a year from now.
Your work will contain a one-page appendix in which you will create a chart of your compensation strategy. This chart should have three columns, which should address the areas listed below:

legally mandated benefits,
direct benefits (include how much you will pay the mid-level managers), and
indirect benefits.

Training models.

 

prepare a PowerPoint presentation to train mid-level managers in your organization. The focus is to help the managers design an effective training process for employees in their department.

This presentation should simulate an actual presentation that will be delivered to the managers. You must utilize the slide notes function in PowerPoint to add speaker notes to each slide; these notes should be used in order to explain or expand on slide content as if you were actually presenting this to your audience. Include (at a minimum) the points below in your training delivery.

Include an overview of the training.
In conducting a needs analysis, what are the steps?
What is the content of the training?
How are trainer(s) selected?
Identify two organizational objectives.
Identify two training objectives.
Identify who is the target audience for the training. What are their learning styles?
Evaluate training models. Which one would you select, and why?
Compare and contrast different training methods.
Connect the training methods to learning styles.
How will the effectiveness of the training be evaluated, and why is evaluation critical?
How should managers ensure transfer of training?
At the end of the PowerPoint presentation, you must have one slide with five evaluation questions to determine the effectiveness of your training.

 

Interdisciplinary Works

Option 1: Choose a work to discuss from one genre that interprets a work from another genre.

Include the title, artist, and description of both works.
Examine how the artist of the second work captured the subject or story of the first.
Support your point(s) with a statement from the second artist that discusses the influence, reasoning, or interpretation of the original work on the second work.
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Link: Examples
Option 2: Choose a work that is interdisciplinary (incorporates two or more disciplines), such as Hamilton from our lesson this week.

Include the title and artist(s).
Examine the genres that are intermingled to create the work.
How effective is the blending of genres in the work?
Why do you think the artist used different disciplines in the work?
Support your point(s) with a statement from the artist and one from a critic.
Option 3: Choose a work of art from any genre that depicts or tells the story of a real life event from any time period, such as The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Joséphine on December 2, 1804 by Jacques Louis David.

Include the title and the artist and some background of the event.
What is the relationship between the work of art and the event?
Did the artist depict the event accurately?
Does the artist make changes regarding the event? If so, why do you think the artist made these changes?
Examine the artist’s message in the depiction.
Support your point(s) with a statement from the artist.