1. Characteristics of strategic decisions

2. 5 generic competitive strategies (explain)

3. what's a business model and what are its components?

4. when does a strategy works best, when does low-cost, differentiator, focused, work best?

5. 5 external competitive pressures, come from 5 sources?

1. Discuss the importance of purchasing and what to consider in selecting suppliers.

2. Describe inventory and how to maintain effective contro

Q1. [10 pts, 1pt each] General knowledge of Computer, True or False (fill in T or F)

1. (      ) Register is implemented inside the main memory on computer board.
2. (      ) Von Neumann architecture has data and instructions in the same memory.
3. (      ) Servers are the largest class of computers and span the widest range of applications and performance.
4. (      ) Control unit is active part of the computer, following the instructions of the program to the letter. It adds numbers, tests numbers, controls other components, and so on.
5. (      ) Assembler translates from a high-level notation to assembly language.
6. (      ) Input device is a mechanism that conveys the result of a computation to a user or another computer.
7. (      ) ISA is the interface between software and hardware.
8. (      ) The MIPS architecture as simulated in QtSpim is big-endian.
9. (      ) The addressing mode of instruction sw $t0,32($s0) is PC-relative addressing mode.
10. (      ) Memory in MIPS architecture can store 2³² words.

Python Questions：

Q1. list_1= ['wind', 'spring', 'summer', 'purse', 'great', 'sports']

Use re.search() in the re package and list comprehension to find all words in list_1 that does not contain the letter "r".

Q2.

str_1= '''I live in a room by the sea,
where the view is great and the food is free.
Some of the tenants come and go.
Some I eat, if they're too slow.
One end of me is firmly locked.
The other end just gently rocks.
I live in a room by the sea.
It's perfect for an anemone. '''
Use re.search() in the re package to find all lines that does not start with the letter "s", "S", or "I".

Q3. list_1= ['attitudes', 'ab\nchild', '2!apologies', 'echess', 'fly\n', 'cheer']
Use list comprehension and functions in re package to filter all elements that start with "ch" or end with "es".

Q4. Remove everything from the first occurrence of "e" till end of the string, using the function .sub() from the "re" package

str_1 = 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.'

which balanced scoreboard perspective most closely aligned with McDonald handling of its supply chain, based on the case?

What are the main reasons Pepsi Co acquire California Pizza Kitchen? How would you evaluate such decision? Was the acquisition successful? Why or why not?

The below mentioned figure shows a General diagnosis flowchart for troubleshooting HP servers. Use
the flowchart to create a C++ program that leads a person through the steps of fixing a bad HP server.
Here is an example of the program’s output (following one of the flow):
Starting General Diagnosis Program.
Recoding symptoms information - DONE.
Rebooting server to see if condition still exists - DONE.
Is this a newly installed server? yes [enter]
Please reseat any components that may have come loose during shipping - DONE.
Rebooting the server - DONE.
Does the condition still exist? no [enter]
Recording all actions taken for future - DONE.
Congratulations, your server problems are solved.
Notice the program ends as soon as a solution is found to the problem.

A situation in which the source of information is more sensitive than the information itself. Explain why the sum of sensitive data might also be sensitive.

Some companies do not include educational benefits in their benefits plans. Discuss reasons why this may be the case. If your employer does offer tuition reimbursement, share your thoughts with the class on the value of this benefit. Also, what percentage of the employees do you believe typically take advantage of it? Please do not share anything that would be confidential in nature.

*****Software Engineering

Define the following :

QUESTION 1

1.1) Contract Software

1.2) Internal Software Development

1.3) Client

1.4) Object

Explain the potential or documented influence of the ACA on medical social work practice

Briefly describe an example scenario where a strategy design pattern is suitable to use.

You are the HR Manager for a small firm with 10 employees; all the employees are eligible for merit pay. You have been allocated $10,000 to reward these employees. Design a performance management system to first evaluate these employees and then a system to link their performance with these employees.minimum 500 words

Answer the following multiple-choice questions:

1. A TCP receiver received an expected segment, without error, but yet has not ACKed the sender. What might be the reason for that?

1. It is actually a lost segment.
2. It is actually a duplicate segment.
3. The use of Stop-and-wait mechanism.
4. The use of Delayed ACK.
5. The use of a large window size.

2. If a TCP receiver received 2 segments with sequence number 34 and 58, the second segment was corrupted and discarded. What action could be taken to fix this? (Recall in TCP, ACK number is the next expected 1st byte number in the next segment & TCP uses cumulative ACK means all segments received with sequence number less than ACK number have been received correctly)

1. Receiver sends ACK number 34
2. Receiver sends ACK number 58
3. Receiver sends ACKs number 34 & 58
4. Receiver just waits for timeout

3. Receiver Window value in TCP header is used for ___________

1. Go-back N window
2. Flow control
3. Congestion avoidance
4. Establish connection

4. Comparing TCP to UDP: choose ALL CORRECT statements

1. UDP server can support multiple clients using one socket.
2. TCP server can support multiple clients using one socket.
3. TCP server can support multiple clients using multiple sockets.
4. TCP server cannot allow a client to have more than one connection socket.
5. TCP server allow a client to have more than one connection socket

5. What is NOT true about TCP congestion control?

1. TCP sender’s experience slow rate at the beginning of the connection
2. After a slow start, TCP sender’s initial rate increases slowly
3. After a slow start, TCP sender’s initial rate increases exponentially (fast)
4. when loss occurs, congestion window is cut down to half

6. A reliable data transfer mechanism in which receiver individually acknowledges all correctly received packets and sender only resends packets for which ACK not received is called:

1. Go-back-N
2. Selective repeat
3. Negative acknowledgement
4. NAK-free protocol

7. Consider a TCP connection between Host A and B. Suppose that the TCP segments traveling from Host A to Host B have source port number x and destination port number y. What are the source and destination port numbers for the segments traveling from Host B to Host A?

1. source port number x and destination port number x
2. source port number x and destination port number y
3. source port number y and destination port number x
4. source port number y and destination port number y
5. No enough information

8. Consider an RDT protocol. To find whether a received packet (at the receiver) contains new data or it is a duplicate, we can use ________________.

1. Sequence numbers
2. Acknowledgement
3. Duplicate Acknowledgement
4. Timers
5. Pipelining
6. Checksum

Working in a small group (6 members), carefully select an issue which is closely linked to HR policy and practice (for example, we looked together in class at the issue of maternity leave, process of training, bottom-up HR planning, expatriate family issues to have low performance, selection criteria, design for expatriate compensation package. Issues on PCNs (expatriates), HCNs and TCNS face when working in an MNE (you need to link to some key HR activities, such as staffing, training, reward management etc… ). You will be exploring this issue in detail, comparing and contrasting how it is experienced and managed in different countries. It is important you talk through your choice of topic with Dr. Yi before proceeding with your project so that she can advise and guide you on its suitability.

TOPIC IS -  Covid-19 health and safety of HRM

Countries are USA and UAE

• What are the relevant employment laws in each country which influence the HR issue Duet to COVID-19?
• What role does culture play in shaping the key differences between the countries?
• What are the similarities?
• What are the differences?
• What are some of the challenges of HR in this COVID 19 outbreak ?