STUDY GUIDE Exam 2‚ Chapters 5-8 CIT 3013 Sinclaire SPRING 2015 1. What is the purpose of IT infrastructure? Define IT infrastructure. Describe the purpose of IT infrastructure. Describe the five major categories of IT infrastructure and provide several examples of each. 2. Three contemporary hardware trends are mobile computing‚ consumeriation of IT and BYOD‚ and virtualization. Define and describe each of these trends (provide details and examples) and discuss the impact of each trend on business
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Case 2– Research in Motion- RIM 1. What were some of the challenges RIM faced to protect its Intellectual Property and how did RIM handle those challenges? There was a legal action between NTP and RIM over the intellectual property. RIM resolved the action. To protect its intellectual property‚ RIM agreed to pay $612.5 million to NTP Inc. to settle the fight. The dispute had threatened to end RIM’s BlackBerry e-mail service to millions of users in the U.S. and has been the subject of a four-year
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Case 2 Specific Assignment Details For the store manager group‚ you will analyze the information and prepare a report showing the results of the Markov analysis and the EEO investigation. The Director asked you to address these questions in your written report: 1. Currently the organization expects that their forecast for labor requirements is essentially constant from the previous year. Based on this assumption complete the five stages of the planning process: a. Currently the
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1. How is strategic management illustrated by this case story? According to the case study Zara have a plan that involves an obvious and concentrated understanding of fashion‚ technology‚ and producing clothes they also can change their line according to the needs of the market as quick as possible they also practice strategic management and some of its evident starting in: 1) assigning goals Amancio Ortega’s goals was to produce (fast fashion). 2) Strategy planning Get products to the market
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As stated in figure 1 above‚ the cocoa on the Rancho Quemado Estate takes up 40% of the land‚ while 30% was donated to the petting zoo and the nature trail. Whereas‚ 20% is occupied by citrus and 10% is used for aquaculture. The Rancho Quemado Agri Eco-Tourism Park spans 45 acres and so far 25 acres have been rehabilitated by the Brash family‚ owners of the estate. Such large amounts of land are used for cocoa because the estate harvests Trinitario beans which comprises the cocoa used in chocolate
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Currently in the United States‚ 44 million adults live in poverty. Poverty is defined for a single person as an income level below $10‚830 or less than $22‚050 for a family. The vast majority of the homeless are jobless individuals and families that cannot afford shelter. An astounding 700‚000 to 800‚000 Americans are homeless on a given night and 2.5 million to 3.5 million are homeless at some point during the year. 28 million employed Americans are considered to be at poverty level. About two-thirds
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Auditing a Publicly Traded Company Memo: To: Senior Staff Member From: Team A Date: September 13‚ 2010 Subject: Share-based payment reporting and special purpose entities reporting December 16‚ 2004 the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement 123‚ Shared- Based Statement‚ which took the place of Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation and replaced Accounting Principal Board Opinion No. 25 Accounting for Stock issued to Employees. Share-based payment is “a transaction in which
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The Fashion Cannel 1. What are the pros and cons of the three segmentation scenarios? Read carefully the case and make a list of the pros and cons of each segmentation scenario. Use the following table to summarize your findings. Scenario 1: Broad-based Segmentation Targeting Scenario 2: Fashionista focus Scenario 3: Fashionistas + Planners/Shoppers Pros Already have male audience interest‚ 55% male Segment is strong with 18-34 year old females Smaller
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Marketing case studies explain the purpose of the marketing function and the process of marketing planning. Case study topics covered include: The role of market research in analysing customer requirements SWOT analysis to map strengths‚ take advantage of opportunities or counter threats Setting marketing objectives - product- versus market-orientation Achieving balance in the marketing mix (product‚ price‚ place‚ promotion) to help achieve competitive advantage Which marketing strategies (Ansoff’s
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Question 1 Before Kim Fuller start to manage his business‚ he need to identify two kinds of information which is can categorized to accounting information and non-accounting information. Accounting Information Accounting Information is a set of financial data indicating an organization’s resources‚ revenues‚ debts or expenses. Information about accounting information system is responsible for providing timely and accurate financial and statistical reports for internal management decision making
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