The ABC Company runs two shifts, from 8:00 am to midnight. Backups and system maintenance are performed between midnight and 8:00 am. For each of the following scenarios, determine whether the company’s current backup procedures enable it to meet its recovery objectives, and explain why:

1. Scenario 1:

   • Recovery point objective = 24 hours

   • Daily backups at 3:00 a.m., process takes 2 hours

   • Copy of backup tapes picked up daily at 8:00 a.m. for storage off-site

2. Scenario 2: Company makes daily incremental backups Monday through Friday at 3:00 a.m. each night. Company makes full backup weekly, on Saturdays at 1:00 p.m.

   • Recovery time objective = 2 hours

   • Time to do full backup = 3 hours

   • Time to restore from full backup = 1 hour

   • Time to make incremental daily backup = 1 hour

   • Time to restore each incremental daily backup = 30 minutes

3. Scenario 3: Company makes daily differential backups Monday through Friday at 3:00 a.m. each night. Company makes full backup weekly, on Saturdays, at 1:00 p.m.

   • Recovery time objective = 6 hours

   • Time to do full backup = 4 hours

   • Time to restore from full backup = 3 hours

   • Time to do differential daily backups = 1 hour on Monday, increasing by 30 minutes each successive day

   • Time to restore differential daily backup = 30 minutes for Monday, increasing by 15 minutes each successive day

Net Realizable Value Method, Decision to Sell at Split-off or Process Further

Pacheco, Inc., produces two products, overs and unders, in a single process. The joint costs of this process were $60,000, and 15,000 units of overs and 36,000 units of unders were produced. Separable processing costs beyond the split-off point were as follows: overs, $20,000; unders, $23,040. Overs sell for $2.00 per unit; unders sell for $3.14 per unit.

Required:

1. Allocate the $60,000 joint costs using the estimated net realizable value method.

2. Suppose that overs could be sold at the split-off point for $1.80 per unit. Should Pacheco sell overs at split-off or process them further?
Overs should not be processed further as there will be $_________ more profit if sold at split-off.

Net Realizable Value Method, Decision to Sell at Split-off or Process Further

Pacheco, Inc., produces two products, overs and unders, in a single process. The joint costs of this process were $60,000, and 14,000 units of overs and 36,000 units of unders were produced. Separable processing costs beyond the split-off point were as follows: overs, $18,000; unders, $23,040. Overs sell for $2.00 per unit; unders sell for $3.14 per unit.

Required:

1. Allocate the $60,000 joint costs using the estimated net realizable value method.

2. Suppose that overs could be sold at the split-off point for $1.80 per unit. Should Pacheco sell overs at split-off or process them further?
Overs be processed further as there will be $ profit if sold at split-off.

For the following sequence of sample nominal data (with two categories), conduct a runs test for randomness, using α = 0.05. P P Q Q P Q P P Q Q P Q P P

Identify the DECISION and CONCLUSION of this runs test.

Tel-Skein is a call centre which fields all queries by customers of a national bank. Calls that are put through to operators who specialise in queries regarding ‘Lost or Stolen Debit Cards’ occur at random at a mean rate of 90 per hour.

(i) What is the probability distribution, including its parameter(s), of the number of calls arriving in this part of the call centre during a two-minute interval? (There is no need to calculate any probabilities in this part of the question).

(ii) Data have been collected on numbers of customers calling this part of the call centre in 100 two-minute periods and are summarised below. Use an appropriate test to investigate whether or not the data are consistent with your answer to part (i). Explain your method and conclusions carefully.

(iii)On Sundays, Tel-Skein runs a ‘skeleton-shift’ (i.e. it employs a reduced number of operators). As a result, operators specialising in ‘Lost or Stolen Debit Cards’ also have to field calls regarding ‘Bill Payments’. Calls regarding ‘Bill Payments’ occur at random at a mean rate of 150 per hour.

Assuming the call rate for ‘Lost or Stolen Debit Cards’ is unchanged, what is the probability that, during a one-minute period on Sundays, there will be between 3 calls and 5 calls; and what is the probability that the gap between calls will exceed 30 seconds?

(Complete Using Ubuntu)

Please try each command in Linux system, and get screenshots (you may put multiple commands in one screenshot) which can show how actually each command runs. Also, give a brief description (one or two sentences) for each command. For the commands which have multiple switches/parameters, please try one popular switch/parameter.

Linux Commands: rm,cp ,mv (name), ld, ftp, more, less, cat (date), tar, top, ps (name), kill, df, last, patch, mkdir (date)

A baseball coach reviews the number of runs hit per game for the past several seasons. Since the team plays so many games, he selects a random sample of 10 games and records the number of runs scored in each game. The average number of runs scored is 7 with a standard deviation of 3.1 runs.

Compute the margin of error given a confidence level of 99%. (Use a table or technology. Round your answer to three decimal places.)

2. Scaling Up/KLEM

Consider the following cost structure to make umbrellas:

Capital                      10% (e.g., $1 per umbrella)
Labor                         20% (e.g,, $2 per umbrella)
Energy                      30% (e.g., $3 per umbrella)
Materials                 40% (e.g., $4 per umbrella)

1. (1 point) The production operation creates a second shift using the same plant. Labor, energy, and materials are all variable costs which go into an umbrella, whereas capital is a fixed cost (for the building, etc.) If the new operation has the same productivity as the old operation in terms of umbrellas per employee per shift, what is the new breakdown of cost percentages?

1. (1 point) If the new operation achieves double the labor productivity as the old operation (that is, not only are twice as many umbrellas made per day, twice as many are made per shift), what is the new cost breakdown?
2. (2 points) OK, so now we’re running two shifts. If half the energy required to make an umbrella is a direct marginal cost (for example, heating up the aluminum to make the interior struts) and half of it is a cost of operating the business (e.g., heating up the plant so the workers don’t freeze solid in the winter), how would moving to two shifts affect the cost structure? Hint: Start with your answer to (a) and think on a per-umbrella basis.
3. (2 points) These umbrellas don’t need to be made 100% by hand, however, and the company is considering an investment in automation so that many parts can be made by machine, with the final product simply assembled by hand (like Dell does). Starting off with the original 10/20/30/40 cost structure, if automation increases capital costs by one-quarter (that is, to 125% of their previous level) but reduces labor costs by half (that is, 50% of their previous level), how much will moving to automation reduce total cost on a percentage basis? (You may find Sutton’s Law to be useful here.)
4. (1 point) In a general sense, will investing in automation be more valuable to a factory that runs two shifts per day or one that runs only one shift? Why? (No calculation is required.)
5. (3 points) The new operation now both runs two shifts per day and automates the production. Including all the changes in capital, labor, and energy costs, how does the new total cost compare to original total cost? (You will find computing the new breakdown to be useful, but your answer should be in terms of percentage of original cost.)

Sticky Wickets manufactures Cricket Bats. In May 2010 the budgeted sales and production were 19,000 bats and the standard cost card is as follows:
                                                                                                             Std Cost                                          Std Cost
Material (2kgs @ $5/kg)                                                                         10
Labour (3 hrs at $12/hr)                                                                         36
Overheads (3 hrs @ $1/hr)                                                                     3
Marginal Cost                                                                                                                                                  49
Selling Price                                                                                                                                                    68
Contribution                                                                                                                                                     19
Total fixed costs in the period were budgeted at $100,000 and were absorbed on the basis of labour hours worked.

In May 2010 the following results were achieved.

40,000kg of wood were bought at a cost of $196,000, this produced 19,200 cricket bats. No inventory of raw materials is held. The labour was paid for 62,000 hours and the total cost was $694,000. Labour worked for 61,500 hours.

Variable overheads in the period were $67,000.

The sales price was reduced to protect the sales levels. However, only 18,000 cricket bats were sold at an average price of $65.

Total fixed costs in May were $107,000.

Required : Calculate the sales, materials, labour, variable overheads, fixed overheads variances and any other appropriate variances in as much detail as possible.