What role does Social Media play in your life? Are you aware of the social media policies of the organizations where you work, attend school, or volunteer? Have you used social media to resolve problems, participate in a cause you are passionate about, or to learn about UMUC? How does Social Media impact your personal and professional communications?

You are tasked with briefing the CEO on the financial status of the organization. How do you explain the financial performance of your organization? What measures do you use to explain logistics and supply chain performance? Can the income statement and balance sheet be used to measure logistics and supply chain performance?​

On July 1, 1978 The Container Store opened its first store in Dallas, TX. Kip Tindell (Chairman and CEO), Garrett Boone (Chairman Emeritus), and Architect John Mullen focused the original product offering around an eclectic mix of products that would help simplify consumers' lives. The Container Store was a pioneer in this new, specialty category of retailing that focused on storage and organization. The first store was filled with products like, wire drawers, mailboxes, burger baskets, and milk crates that consumers could not typically find all together in other retail stores. Today, The Container Store has locations nationwide that showcase thousands of innovative products to help consumers save time, space, and money.

For the past twelve years, The Container Store has been named one of Fortune Magazine's "Top 100 Companies to Work For." One of The Container Store's Foundation Principles is that one great employee is equal to three good employees. The Container Store believes in hiring great employees and retaining them! According to The Container Store, "A company must be extraordinarily dedicated to its human resource endeavor, because it takes astronomically more time and effort to attract, hire, and retain great people. They're more challenging to get and they're more challenging to keep. But the payoff they'll provide is enormous." The Container Store's annual turnover rate is 10%. The average turnover rate for most retailers is 100%.

What are some of the ways that The Container Store puts employees first?

Training- The Container Store is committed to giving its sales associates all the necessary tools to be successful on the sales floor and add value for customers. Full-time associates will undergo an average of 263 hours of training in their first year compared to 8 hours for most full-time associates at other retailers.

Fun- The Container Store centers its organization culture on having fun. The retailer sponsors such events as annual service awards celebrations for employees, an annual chili cook-off contest and hosting a "We Love our Employees Day" on Valentine's Day. On this special day, employees received gifts, celebrations, and recognitions at all of The Container Store locations.

Benefits- The Container Store offers a comprehensive benefits package to its employees including health and dental. Recently, The Container Store announced that it would be offering its employees a discounted rate for Pet Insurance. The Container Store recognized that pets are a special part of employees' lives.

Wages- The Container Store does not use a commission based program to compensate employees. Instead, The Container Store offers employees wages and salaries that are 50% higher than the retail industry average.

1.

Creating a Fun work environment is an important part of The Container Store's ______________________.

A) Organization Incentive B) Organization Growth C) Organization Culture D) Organization Commitment E) Organization Constitution

2.

Health care, dental, and even pet insurance are all part of The Container Store's _____________ package for employees.

A) Commitment B) Benefits C)Gift D)Product E)Selection

3.

The Container Store is committed to a comprehensive ________________ program that lasts over 260 hours for all new employees. During this time, employees learn about products, corporate values, expectations, and customer service skills.

A) Organizational B) Training C) Invitational D) Streching E) Hiring

4.

The Container Store does not offer ______________ or incentives to employees. Rather, The Container Store offers employees a salary or wage package that is typically 50% higher than the national retail industry average.

A) Commissions B) Statuses C) Balances D) Strategies E) policies

5.

A clear indicator of employee satisfaction is The Container Store's low annual _______________rate which is 90% lower than the national retail industry average.

A) Compensation B) Wage C) Functioning D) Satisfaction E) Turnover

Scenario B: Vines, a small, popular chain of Italian restaurants, wishes to hire a new general manager to oversee a local restaurant's day-to-day operations. The company human resources manager posts an advertisement in the local newspaper stating, "General manager wanted for a fast-paced restaurant serving award-winning northern Italian cuisine. Applicants must have three years' experience in a comparable Italian restaurant managing a restaurant staff and ensuring the satisfaction of diners." In addition to making inquiries through industry contacts, the HR manager places the ad on the company's bulletin board and intranet. The HR manager then develops a pool of prospective candidates for the position and chooses from the pool of candidates when making decisions on whom to hire. The part of the ad in the local newspaper that stated that the company requires a general manger with three year's experience managing the restaurant staff in a successful Italian restaurant is an example of a job ________.

CompTIA Security+ SY0-501

Q1)
A security administrator is implementing a SIEM and needs to ensure events can be compared against each other based on when the events occurred and were collected.

Which of the following does the administrator need to implement to ensure this can be accomplished? A. TOTP

B. TKIP

C. NTP

D. HOTP

____________________________________________

Q2)

Fuzzing is used to reveal which of the following vulnerabilities in web applications?

A. Weak cipher suites

B. Improper input handling

C. DLL injection

D. Certificate signing flaws
__________________________________________________
Q3)

An administrator is disposing of media that contains sensitive information. Which of the following will provide the MOST effective method to dispose of the media while ensuring the data will be unrecoverable?

A. Wipe the hard drive.

B. Shred the hard drive.

C. Sanitize all of the data.

D. Degauss the hard drive.

Which of the following attacks can be mitigated by proper data retention policies?
A.   Dumpster diving
B.   Man-in-the-browser
C.   Spear phishing
D.   Watering hole

A security administrator needs to conduct a full inventory of all encryption protocols and cipher suites. Which of the following tools will the security administrator use to conduct this inventory MOST efficiently?
A.   Tcpdump
B.   Protocol analyzer
C.   Netstat
D.   Nmap

A security analyst is interested in setting up an IDS to monitor the company network. The analyst has been told there can be no network downtime to implement the solution, but the IDS must capture all of the network traffic. Which of the following should be used for the IDS implementation?
A.   Network tap
B.   Honeypot
C.   Aggregation
D.   Port mirror

Which of the following is a security consideration for IoT devices?
A.   IoT devices have built-in accounts that users rarely access.
B.   IoT devices have less processing capabilities.
C.   IoT devices are physically segmented from each other.
D.   IoT devices have purpose-built applications.

Which of the following statements about process analysis is TRUE?
A. Process analysis only matters to those who are in accounting.
B. Process analysis is all about creating demand.
C. Process analysis helps one analyze all the activities involved in providing one unit of supply.
D. Process analysis is all about keeping track of revenue and costs.

for the purpose of process analysis, which of the following measures would be considered an appropriate flow unit for analyzing the main operation of a gas station: (More than one answer can be selected)

a. Sales Dollars

b. number of gasoline pumps

c. number of employees working per day

d. number of customers served per day

One advantage of proprietary software versus off-the-shelf software is that _____

What is a content delivery network (CDN)?

Select one:

a. A technology service that replicates content from one server and multiplies it on many other servers around the globe to speed up load times for Internet users, provided by companies such as Akamai or Cloudflare.

b. Any media site with lots of content, such as CNN.com, the New York Times, NPR, or KQED.org website.

c. The technology platform of cable providers, such as Time Warner or Comcast, who provide lots of media content over their cable network.

d. CDN's are email providers, such as Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft, who deliver emails for millions of customers across their networks.

Which of the following is a way that a company might save money by using the cloud?

No savings are possible by using the cloud as companies still need to pay rent on the software

Upfront costs associated with acquiring new servers are avoided and server operating system software maintenance and patching are handled by the cloud provider rather than the company using the cloud services

Companies can send their already purchased/owned servers to the cloud provider to use when the software use increases.

Two of the above are ways to save money.

For 40 days in the summer, you are working in a small, student-run company that sends out merchandise with university branding to alumni around the world. Every day, you take a sample of 50 shipments that are ready to be shipped to the alumni and inspect them for correctness. Across all days, the average percentage of incorrect shipments is 5 percent. What would be the center line for a p-chart?

40

50

0.05

2.5

None of the above

• fire employees found spreading false stories.
• neutralize the rumor by openly confirming any parts that may be true. 
• restrict the length of breaks taken by the employees.
• block all forms of electronic communication in the office.
• closely monitor each employee's activities in the office