Social networking Web sites create online communities of Internet users that eliminate barriers created by time, distance, and cultural differences. These sites allow people to interact with others online by sharing opinions, insights, information, interests, and experiences.  Members may use the site to interact with friends, family members, and colleagues they already know, but that they may also wish to develop new personal and professional […]

You are the new chief architect for WOU. You will use the EA3 framework and methodology (from the text). Do not be concerned (yet) with governance. While there are a wide range of IT projects that are important to the university, President Fuller has tasked you to focus primarily on the student-centric IT systems and services that WOU provides to its students. Your first assignment […]

Assignment 1: ERM RoadmapDue Week 3 and worth 125 points The following material may be useful for the completion of this assignment. You may refer to the documents titled “Embracing Enterprise Risk Management: Practical Approaches for Getting Started” and “Developing Key Risk Indicators to Strengthen Enterprise Risk Management”, located at http://www.coso.org/-ERM.htm. Imagine you are an Information Technology Manager employed by a business that needs you to […]

Assignment 2: Software Engineering, CMMI, and ITIL Realizing that an organization’s CMMI level impacts an organization’s success on requests for proposals (RFPs), your CIO wants to get the software development processes to CMMI level 3. Your organization has started developing software applications and database systems for their customers. The CIO wants to ensure that the software development and database development processes are being properly managed […]

In many web pages, content is organized into a fixed number of columns. Very basic sites may use only a single column, whereas two- and three-column layouts are frequently seen on commercial sites. Some pages with complex information designs may use even more columns. Find a page on the Web where content is grouped into one or more columns, and paste the URL and an […]

Scenario: In analyzing the network performance at the Bedford Campus, one issue that has come to light is the insufficient network and server infrastructure that is in place to support delivery of the school’s Learning Management System (LMS) and Exchange email service over the public internet to a growing student body. One possible solution to this issue is migration of the LMS and Exchange email […]

 Locate a current news story in which web security issues were exploited in the form of either an attack or natural disaster. First, explain how these incidents could have been avoided. Second, discuss what can be done going forward in order to reduce the likelihood of subsequent incidents. Finally, in responding to your peers’ posts, evaluate the recommendations of your peers and discuss whether additional […]

The Discussion Board (DB) is part of the core of online learning. Classroom discussion in an online environment requires the active participation of students and the instructor to create robust interaction and dialogue. Every student is expected to create an original response to the open-ended DB question as well as engage in dialogue by responding to posts created by others throughout the week. At the […]

You prepared a risk assessment and human resources plan in the previous week. Based on your previous report and after reviewing the project plan, the CIO has identified several concerns. The CIO has asked you to conduct research on project budgeting and estimation tools. You have been asked to incorporate project estimates techniques using PERT, Analogous, and Delphi into the software development plan. Make sure […]

The number of American telecommuters is expected to increase by 29 million telecommuters or 43% of the workforce by 2016 as more work gets performed from remote locations. Mobile workers can work from wherever they are and use the IT / IS technology necessary to access co-workers, company or corporate infrastructure, intranets, and other information sources.