Chapter 16 summarizes 5 policy case studies on energy policy and climate change. Choose one of these case studies and briefly summarize the goals of the project, the methods used to achieve those goals, and stakeholders that are part of the project or affected by the project. Finally, argue how this project impacted or might impact industry or business in the region or country.

This essay question is open-ended. The textbook descriptions and analysis is brief, so feel free to use information learned from previous chapters, your experience, previous studies, or outside sources to support your argument about the project’s impact or potential impact to industry and business

Document should be minimum of 3-4 pages without abstract and reference(Total of 5-6)

QUESTION 1:

Chapter 1 of the text (1-13) you will look at calculating a monthly payment for a loan. A simpler problem is to compute the amount a loan would cost you in one month.

Using information from an internet source, determine the current interest rate a credit card or loan. Suppose you borrow $1,000 (or spend $1,000) on a credit card. How much will you owe in one month? 6 months if you pay nothing for 6 months?

Compute the 6 month cost in two ways:

• Make 6 monthly computations. Enter these as formulas in a spreadsheet. (The goal here is really getting you to use spreadsheets and formulas for computations.)
• Use the formula, A= 1000*(1 + r)^(N) where N = the number of periods (6) and r = the periodic interest rate = APR/12, where APR is the annual percentage rate.

Here are a couple of options to research loans that do not require personal information. Top10PersonalLoans, Credit Karma.

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 2:

Roll two dice and add the numbers. Roll the dice 40 times and record your results. Find the eight descriptive statistics in the Chapter 1 for this data set.

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

Go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world…, choose a country, and find the following rates: Birth, Death, and Net Immigration for the most current year. Use the rates and the current population to find the number of each category expected for that year – use ratio tables and be sure to attach them to your answer.

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 3:

Go to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world…, choose a country, and find the following rates: Birth, Death, and Net Immigration for the most current year. Use the rates and the current population to find the number of each category expected for that year – use ratio tables and be sure to attach them to your answer.

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 4:

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the mean height of an American male is 69.3 inches and the mean height of an American female is 63.8 inches. The standard deviation for both genders is 2.7 inches.

Assuming that heights among a single gender are normally distributed. Find the z-score for your height in inches using the mean of your own gender and then find the percentile at which you fall among people of your own gender using the percentile table from problem 25 of the Module 2 Homework.

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 5:

Choose one country that you might like to visit. Select a duration for your trip between two and six weeks, and then choose a number of participants between 5 and 10 people. Suppose one goal of your group is to speak to every adult citizen in the country. How many citizens must each missionary need to talk to per day, per hour, and per second to speak to every adult citizen in that country? Is that goal reasonable?

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 6:

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the mean height of an American male is 69.3 inches and the mean height of an American female is 63.8 inches. The standard deviation for both genders is 2.7 inches.

• According to Chebyshev’s Theorem 75% of the data for your gender lies between what two heights?
• If height is assumed to be normal, what percentage of the data lies between those same two heights?

Look in the Guided Worksheets on page 49 for more information.

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 7:

What is percent? Write your height in inches. Suppose it increases by 15%, what would your new height be? Now suppose your increased height decreases by 15% what is your new height?

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 8:

Many students take online courses because they are more convenient for their schedules. What are some of the tradeoffs for taking an online course in a subject such as math? What tools are you using to overcome these challenges?

QUESTION 9:

Select one of the options below and create a linear equation to represent the monthly bill. When will the plans cost the same? Explain when each plan is a better option.

Option 1: Plan A $39.99 for 200 min and $1.25 for each min after. Plan B $29.99 for 200 min and $1.50 for each min after.

Option 2: Plan A $25.75 plus $.75 per min. Plan B $20.99 plus $1.00 per min

Option 3: Plan A $39.99 plus $1.25 per min. Plan B $25.99 plus $1.75 per min

Option 4: Plan A $45.99 for 400 min and $.50 for each min after. Plan B $49.99 for 400 min and $.40 for each min after

QUESTION 10:

In Chapter 1 of the text we looked at calculating a monthly payment for a loan. A related formula is to calculate the amount accruing when regular payments are made into an interest bearing account – often called the Savings Plan formula.

(A is the accrued amount after t years of making regular payments, PMT, into an account at interest rate, r%, compounded ntimes each year.)

A(t) = PMT((1 + r/N)^Nt – 1)/(r/N)

= PMT*((1 + r/N)^(N*t) – 1)/(r/N)

The second version is essentially in the form used in Excel

Suppose you want to buy a car and have decided that you can save $100 a month. Using information from an internet source, determine the current interest rate on savings accounts and use the information to answer the following:

• How much money will you have saved in two year’s time?
• How much will be interest?
• Why wouldn’t a linear model work here?

Here is one option to research accounts that do not require personal information: NerdWallet

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 11:

Use the digits of your birthday as the amount of your initial investment (i.e., 6/25 is $625), calculate the value of this investment after 10 years at 3.5% APR for interest compounded yearly, quarterly, monthly, and daily. What do you notice?

A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet is required for this DQ.

QUESTION 12:

Using the average inflation rates from: http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/his… use the geometric mean to find the average percent change in inflation for the past 5 years.

QUESTION 13:

What are the four major categories of securities? How are they evaluated?

QUESTION 14:

What are your favorite and least favorite experiences in this class so far? When responding, please refrain from using names and sharing comments that are inappropriate for the discussion forum.

Background:

No-Internal-Controls, LLC is a mid-sized pharmaceutical company in the Midwest of the US employing around 150 employees. It has grown over the past decade by merging with other pharmaceutical companies and purchasing smaller firms.

Recently No-Internal-Controls, LLC suffered a ransomware attack. The company was able to recover from the attack with the assistance of a third party IT Services Company.

Attack Analysis:

• After collecting evidence and analyzing the attack, the third party was able to recreate the attack.
• No-Internal-Controls, LLC has a number of PCs configured for employee training
• These training computers use generic logins such as “training1”, “training2”, etc. with passwords of “training1”, “training2”, etc.
• The generic logins were not subject to lock out due to incorrect logins
• One of the firms purchased by No-Internal-Controls, LLC allowed Remote Desktop connections from the Internet through the firewall to the internal network for remote employees
• Due to high employee turnover and lack of documentation none all of the IT staff were aware of the legacy remote access 
• The main office has only a single firewall and no DMZ or bastion host exists to mediate incoming remote desktop connections
• The internal network utilized a flat architecture
• An attacker discovered the access by use of a port scan and used a dictionary attack to gain access to one of the training computers
• The attacker ran a script on the compromised machine to elevate his access privileges and gain administrator access
• The attacker installed tools on the compromised host to scan the network and identify network shares
• The attacker copied ransomware into the network shares for the accounting department allowing it spread through the network and encrypt accounting files
• Critical accounting files were backed up and were recovered, but some incidental department and personal files were lost

Instructions:

You have been hired by No-Internal-Controls, LLC in the newly created role of CISO and have been asked to place priority on mitigating further attacks of this type.

• Suggest at least two policies that would help mitigate against attacks similar to this attack
• Suggest at least two controls to support each policy (so a minimum of 4 controls)fIdentify each of the controls as either physical, administrative, or technical and either preventative, detective, or corrective (so one control might be a physical, preventive control)
• Keep in mind that No-Internal-Controls, LLC is a mid-sized company with a small IT staff and limited budget
• Do not attempt to write full policies, simply summarize each policy you suggest in one or two sentences.  
• Clearly indicate how each policy you suggest will help mitigate similar attacks and how each control will support the associated policy

Chase Brexton is the health care organization. Attached is the Swot and Competitive anaysis needed to go along with the assisgment.

1. Research the organization by visiting its website and, if possible, its location.
2. Research the industry in which your organization operates, e.g. nursing homes, private physician practice.
3. Using your findings, conduct a SWOT analysis of your organization. Use the SWOT Analysis Worksheet provided under Course Content
4. Conduct a competitive analysis of your organization. Use the Competitive Analysis Worksheet provided under Course Content.

Prepare your written assignment by addressing each of the following questions in order:

1. What is the mission of the health care organization?
2. What are their corporate level goals?
3. Who are their customers?
4. From your SWOT analysis, what do you conclude are the organization’s main strengths and weaknesses?
5. From your SWOT analysis, what do you conclude are the organization’s main opportunities and threats?
6. Who are the primary competitors to the organization?
7. Do you think the organization has a customer-focused orientation to its practices and procedures? Why or why not?