A research paper describes an experiment in which 74 men were assigned at random to one of four treatments.

1. viewed slides of fit, muscular men
2. viewed slides of fit, muscular men accompanied by diet and fitness-related text
3. viewed slides of fit, muscular men accompanied by text not related to diet and fitness
4. did not view any slides

The participants then went to a room to complete a questionnaire. In this room, bowls of pretzels were set out on the tables. A research assistant noted how many pretzels were consumed by each participant while completing the questionnaire. Data consistent with summary quantities given in the paper are given in the accompanying table.

Do these data provide convincing evidence that the mean number of pretzels consumed is not the same for all four treatments? Test the relevant hypotheses using a significance level of 0.05.

Calculate the test statistic. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

F =

What can be said about the P-value for this test?

P-value > 0.1000.050 < P-value < 0.100    0.010 < P-value < 0.0500.001 < P-value < 0.010P-value < 0.001

What can you conclude?

Reject H₀. The data do not provide convincing evidence that the mean number of pretzels consumed is not the same for all four treatments.Fail to reject H₀. The data do not provide convincing evidence that the mean number of pretzels consumed is not the same for all four treatments.    Reject H₀. The data provide convincing evidence that the mean number of pretzels consumed is not the same for all four treatments.Fail to reject H₀. The data provide convincing evidence that the mean number of pretzels consumed is not the same for all four treatments.

You may need to use the appropriate table in Appendix A to answer this question.

Scenario

You are an information technology (IT) intern working for Health Network, Inc. (Health Network), a fictitious health services organization headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Health Network has over 600 employees throughout the organization and generates $500 million USD in annual revenue. The company has two additional locations in Portland, Oregon and Arlington, Virginia, which support a mix of corporate operations. Each corporate facility is located near a co-location data center, where production systems are located and managed by third-party data center hosting vendors.

Company Products

Health Network has three main products: HNetExchange, HNetPay, and HNetConnect.

HNetExchange is the primary source of revenue for the company. The service handles secure electronic medical messages that originate from its customers, such as large hospitals, which are then routed to receiving customers such as clinics.

HNetPay is a Web portal used by many of the company’s HNetExchange customers to support the management of secure payments and billing. The HNetPay Web portal, hosted at Health Network production sites, accepts various forms of payments and interacts with credit-card processing organizations much like a Web commerce shopping cart.

HNetConnect is an online directory that lists doctors, clinics, and other medical facilities to allow Health Network customers to find the right type of care at the right locations. It contains doctors’ personal information, work addresses, medical certifications, and types of services that the doctors and clinics offer. Doctors are given credentials and are able to update the information in their profile. Health Network customers, which are the hospitals and clinics, connect to all three of the company’s products using HTTPS connections. Doctors and potential patients are able to make payments and update their profiles using Internet-accessible HTTPS Web sites.

Information Technology Infrastructure Overview

Health Network operates in three production data centers that provide high availability across the company’s products. The data centers host about 1,000 production servers, and Health Network maintains 650 corporate laptops and company-issued mobile devices for its employees.

Threats Identified

Upon review of the current risk management plan, the following threats were identified:

• Loss of company data due to hardware being removed from production systems
• Loss of company information on lost or stolen company-owned assets, such as mobile devices and laptops
• Loss of customers due to production outages caused by various events, such as natural disasters, change management, unstable software, and so on
• Internet threats due to company products being accessible on the Internet
• Insider threats
• Changes in regulatory landscape that may impact operations

Management Request

Senior management at Health Network has determined that the existing risk management plan for the organization is out of date and a new risk management plan must be developed. Because of the importance of risk management to the organization, senior management is committed to and supportive of the project to develop a new plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.

Additional threats other than those described previously may be discovered when re-evaluating the current threat landscape during the risk assessment phase.

The budget for this project has not been defined due to senior management’s desire to react to any and all material risks that are identified within the new plan. Given the company’s annual revenue, reasonable expectations can be determined.

Project Part 2 Task 2: Business Continuity Plan (BCP)

After having reviewed and being impressed by your business impact analysis (BIA), senior management at Health Network has decided that your team must also develop a BCP. Management has allocated all funds for a BCP and your team has their full support, as well as permission to contact any of them directly for participation or inclusion in your BCP plan. You have been assigned to develop this new plan.

Winter storms on the East Coast have affected the ability of Health Network employees to reach the Arlington offices in a safe and timely manner. However, no BCP plan currently exists to address corporate operations. The Arlington office is the primary location for business units, such as Finance, Legal, and Customer Support. Some of the corporate systems, such as the payroll and accounting applications, are located only in the corporate offices. Each corporate location is able to access the other two, and a remote virtual private network (VPN) exists between each Production data center and the corporate locations.

The corporate systems are not currently being backed up and should be addressed in the new plan. The BCP should also include some details regarding how the BCP will be tested.

You may refer to the following additional resources to help you and your team develop a BCP, and you may use a BCP template if found during your research.

References:

• Guide to Business Continuity Management: Frequently Asked Questions (Protiviti, 2013),
  http://www.protiviti.com/en-US/Documents/Resource-Guides/Guide-to-BCM-Third-Edition-Protiviti.pdf
• Business Continuity Plan (Ready.gov), http://www.ready.gov/business/implementation/continuity

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics (Ask these questions to yourself)

• Did I develop a BCP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing to restart pervious operations?
• Did I completely fill out a BCP template if found during their research?
• Did I completely understand BCP concepts presented in class?
• Did I develop a BCP test plan with correct processes?
• Did I create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

Project Part 2 Task 3: Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)

Your project on risk management, the BIA, and the BCP have been well received by senior management at Health Network. They now want you to develop a DRP in order to overcome any mishaps that might occur in the future. You may research and use National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) templates to develop a DRP plan for the company.

Evaluation Criteria and Rubrics (Ask these questions to yourself)

• Did I develop a DRP that could recover business operations while efforts are ongoing to restart pervious operations?
• Did I completely fill out the template found in their research?
• Did I completely understand the DRP constructs presented in class?
• Did I create a professional, well-developed report with proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation?

The Nellie Mae organization found that in a random sample of 100 undergraduate students taken in 2004, the average credit card balance was $2169. Suppose sample standard deviation of these credit card balances is $1000. Perform a test to test if the average credit card debt exceeds $2000.

a)

Identify the population   

Identify the variable:

Identify the parameter

b)

Calculate T stat

Find P-value with DF

The Speech that Made Obama President

Many say this 2004 speech made Barack Obama our President. Watch the video and then participate

Describe how you try to gain other people’s compliance to do things for you. Define ethos, pathos, logos. Give a relevant example of each one. Then discuss which persuasive proofs, ethos, pathos, logos, are you most likely to use?

Clunker Motors Inc. is recalling all vehicles in its Extravagant line from model years 1999-2002 as well all vehicles in its Guzzler line from model years 2004-2007. Given an int variable modelYear and an array of chars representing a string modelName write a statement that prints the message "RECALL" to standard output if the values of modelYear and modelName match the recall details.

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Product Costs using Activity Rates

Atlas Enterprises Inc. manufactures elliptical exercise machines and treadmills. The products are produced in its Fabrication and Assembly production departments. In addition to production activities, several other activities are required to produce the two products. These activities and their associated activity rates are as follows:

The activity-base usage quantities and units produced for each product were as follows:

Use the activity rate and usage information to calculate the total activity cost and activity cost per unit for each product. If required, round the per unit answers to the nearest cent.

create statement of retained earnings & balance sheet