Which of the following business messages would not use the direct strategy?
a. An e-mail message to a staff introuducing a new employee
b. A letter a customer denying his or her request for credit
c. A letter to a coworker congratulating him or her on a recent promotion
d. An oral presentation detailing the specifics of a new company wellness initiative
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For each of the three disk block allocation strategies (contiguous, linked, and indexed), if we are currently at logical block 12 (the last block accessed was block 12) and want to access logical block 5, how many physical blocks must be read from the disk? Assume that the information about each file is already in memory. Block Size = 512
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1. Briefly explain in TWO (2) ways how the pandemic of Covid-19 has affected the business structure.
2. Covid-19 has caused major changes on business discussions. Cultural elements, such as gift giving and hospitality custom are least likely due to lack of physical meetings. Assume that you are a business development manager at your organization. What will you do to woo the potential clients from countries where such elements are important? Suggest and explain any TWO (2) strategies.
3. Another impact of the pandemic is the increasing “work from home”. As an employer, identify FIVE (5) ways how work from home may negatively affect the organization’s productivity.
4. When designing its organization, a multinational corporation (MNC) must make a particularly critical decision that determines the level of autonomy, power and control it wants to grant its subsidiaries. Assume that you are working in an MNC. Advice your organization about centralize or decentralize decision making for the subsidiaries during this pandemic.
5. Discuss FOUR (4) factors that influence recruiting and selecting employees for international assignments.
6. The pandemic has also impacted business functions inside an organization. As a Human Resource manager, you are required to identify ONE (1) effect of Covid-19 and ONE (1) way to overcome the effect on the following:
i. Performance appraisal
ii. Staffing policy
iii. Compensation
iv. Training and development
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It is likely that the importance of the outsourced full-service marketing agency will shrink in the next decade.( true or false)
Which of the following questions should NOT be asked when qualifying a prospect?
a Can the prospect derive added value from the product in ways that the company can deliver?
b Does the prospect have a need for the company's products?
c.Does the prospect have the financial ability to make the sale?
d.Will the sale be enough to make quota?
e.Does the prospect have the authority to make the sale?
Jin Soo joins a company as a salesperson. The company offers him flexible work schedules and telecommuting options. Which of the following factors of salesperson performance is most likely exemplified in this scenario?
a. role perception'
b, sales aptitude
c. sale skill levels
d motivation
e. intrinsic rewards
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A company making tires for bikes is concerned about the exact width of its cyclocross tires. The company has a lower specification limit of 22.8 mm and an upper specifica- tion limit of 23.2 mm. The standard deviation is 0.15 mm and the mean is 23 mm. What is the process capability index for the process?
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3. The goal of inventory management is to have the right ______, in the right _______, at the right _______.
A. product, range, season
B. price, place, supplier
C. price, range, season
D. product, place, time
4. A supply chain with a distributor has more product handling than one without a distributor. True or False?
5. Lead time is a way to measure the availability of inventory. True or False?
6. Expected profit is a direct measure of how well a company serves its customers. True or False?
7. Demand is modeled with a normal distribution that has a mean of 300 and a standard deviation of 50. What is the probability that demand is 400 or less?
A. 97.7%
B. 95.4%
C. 47.7%
D. 2.3%
8. Store A purchases cases of fertilizer for its lawn-care business from a supplier who charges Store A $30 per order and $50 per case. Each case consists of five bags of fertilizer. Store A needs 2000 bags of fertilizer a year. Store A’s annual holding costs are 30%. If Store A’s order quantity is 40 cases, what is its average inventory level?
A. 89
B. 45
C. 40
D. 20
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An attacker is attempting to gain unauthorized access to a WiR network that uses WPA2-PSK. Which of the following attack vectors would the attacker MOST likely use?
Capture a three-way handshake and crack it.
Capture a mobile device and crack its encryption.
Create a rogue wireless access point.
Capture a four-way handshake and crack it.
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C&A produces three kinds of bread: wheat, white, and multigrain. The data on these products are given below:
|
Wheat |
White |
Multigrain |
|
|
Demand (lbs per hour) |
50 |
20 |
10 |
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Changeover time (min) |
60 |
30 |
45 |
|
Production rate (lbs per hour) |
200 |
200 |
200 |
How many lbs of white bread should C&A produce with each batch in order to minimize inventory while satisfying demand?
O 37.5
O 75
O 187.5
O 300
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A cigar company stocks Cuban cigars that have variable lead times because of the difficulty in importing the product. Lead time is normally distributed with an average of 6 weeks and a standard deviation of 2 weeks. Average demand is also normally distributed with a mean of 200 cigars per week and a standard deviation of 25 cigars.
a. For a 98% service level, what is the ROP?
b. What is the ROP for a 90% service level?
c. Explain what these two service level mean. Which is preferable?
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Which of the following statements about quantity discounts is false? A) The cost-minimizing solution may or may not be where annual holding costs equal annual ordering costs. B) In inventory management, item cost becomes relevant to inventory decisions only when a quantity discount is available. C) If carrying costs are expressed as a percentage of value, EOQ is larger at each lower price in the discount schedule. D) The larger the annual demand, the less attractive a discount schedule will be. E) When quantity discounts are allowed, the cost-minimizing order quantity minimizes the sum of holding, ordering, and product costs
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For the following problems, use Octave/Matlab to determine whether the following sets span \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\). Remember you need to pick an arbitrary element in \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\) and see if you can write it as a linear combination of the set of vectors.
For each problem, do the following:
1) - Write the row reduced echelon matrix found by Octave.
2) - Tell me if this set spans \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\).
3) - If this set spans \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\), solve for \(\alpha, \beta, \ldots\) (in other words, tell me how to find the coefficients for the linear combination of our vectors). Otherwise, explain how can you tell the set does not span \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\)
4) - If the set spans \(\mathbb{R}^{3}\), what could you define \(\alpha, \beta, \gamma\), etc. to construct the vector \(\left[\begin{array}{l}1 \\ 2 \\ 3\end{array}\right]\).
a) { ( 1 0 1 ), ( 3 1 0 ), ( -1 0 0 ), ( 2 1 5 ) }
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