Components and Topologies of a Client/Server Network

Prior to beginning work on this assignment read Chapters 4 and 5 in the text book as well as the Breeding online resource (Links to an external site.), and review any relevant information in this week’s lecture.

For this assignment you will take on the role of an interviewee for an IT network admin position. As part of the interview process, you are provided with the following scenario and tasks to complete.

A group of four friends has been working out of a garage with a unique business model that has caught the eye of a venture capitalist. They are now ready to expand into a more appropriate two story building and hire more employees. You have been hired as a consultant by the group to explain their network needs based on their expanding business partners and customers. Apply standard principles of design to implement a plan to build them a network to keep them connected internally. The company will start off with 25 employees and will need plenty of room for growth. The network will require the following six elements.

• Network to support data, voice, power, and video
• LAN and WLAN with latest encryption and security protocols
• Local file and printing services
• Access to a cloud vendor for applications and data storage capabilities
• Workstations will be a mix of Windows and Macs
• Servers will be a mix of Windows and Linux

Research a minimum of two professional sources on this topic. (Access the MISM Credible Resource Guide for assistance with finding appropriate credible professional resources.) As part of your process, you will evaluate the given requirements. Apply your network technical knowledge to the project explain the network topology that best fits the scenario. You will create a high level network diagram to show the layout of the specified requirements. Beneath your diagram provide a written discussion of the network diagram explaining your logic and thought process for the design. Explain how your choices will help your client’s business efficiency and growth. Support your statements with evidence from the required resources and at least two additional professional sources.

Write a six paragraph essay-Intro., four body paragraphs with a paragraph on three reasons Hamlet is a significant literary work, three reasons Hamlet the character is a tragic hero, three literary archetypes in the play, and three themes of the literary work, and a Conclusion.

Writing a poster in an article Electrical and electronic engineering fundamentals

• The requirements;
• A description of Selective Laser Melting (SLM), including

➢ suitable supporting images (with appropriate referencing)

➢ the equation for the average heat flux of a laser spot found in this document

➢ a description of the multidisciplinary nature of SLM

➢ its advantages and disadvantages over competing metal AM processes, with suitable

versions of the table and graph found in this document

➢ a brief description of the applications and markets for SLM.

(A poster template is provided for

• a project plan, including

➢ objectives

➢ tasks – with short (3-4 sentences) descriptions

➢ milestones (at least 2)

➢ deliverables (at least 2), and

➢ a GANNT chart.

1. Is boiling water a physical or chemical change? Explain your answer with complete sentences.
2. List the pure substances and mixtures in this lab. (Read through the procedure.)
3. How many liquid ounces are in a pint? How many gallons is this? How many milliliters is this? Show your work. Record your answers to the correct number of significant figures.

4. List the postulates of Dalton’s atomic theory

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

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1)Loan Amortization

Your company is planning to borrow $1.25 million on a 5-year, 9%, annual payment, fully amortized term loan.

What fraction of the payment made at the end of the second year will represent repayment of principal? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

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2)

Required Annuity Payments

Assume that your father is now 50 years old, plans to retire in 10 years, and expects to live for 25 years after he retires – that is, until age 85. He wants his first retirement payment to have the same purchasing power at the time he retires as $60,000 has today. He wants all his subsequent retirement payments to be equal to his first retirement payment. (Do not let the retirement payments grow with inflation: Your father realizes that if inflation occurs the real value of his retirement income will decline year by year after he retires). His retirement income will begin the day he retires, 10 years from today, and he will then receive 24 additional annual payments. Inflation is expected to be 5% per year from today forward. He currently has $150,000 saved and expects to earn a return on his savings of 10% per year with annual compounding.

How much must he save during each of the next 10 years (with equal deposits being made at the end of each year, beginning a year from today) to meet his retirement goal? (Note: Neither the amount he saves nor the amount he withdraws upon retirement is a growing annuity.) Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.

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3)

Interest rate premiums

A 5-year Treasury bond has a 3.2% yield. A 10-year Treasury bond yields 6.8%, and a 10-year corporate bond yields 9.25%. The market expects that inflation will average 3.75% over the next 10 years (IP₁₀ = 3.75%). Assume that there is no maturity risk premium (MRP = 0) and that the annual real risk-free rate, r*, will remain constant over the next 10 years. (Hint: Remember that the default risk premium and the liquidity premium are zero for Treasury securities: DRP = LP = 0.) A 5-year corporate bond has the same default risk premium and liquidity premium as the 10-year corporate bond described. The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file below. Open the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the question below.

What is the yield on this 5-year corporate bond? Round your answer to two decimal places.

4)

Interest Rate Sensitivity

A bond trader purchased each of the following bonds at a yield to maturity of 10%. Immediately after she purchased the bonds, interest rates fell to 7%. The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file below. Open the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the questions below.

What is the percentage change in the price of each bond after the decline in interest rates? Assume annual coupons and annual compounding. Fill in the following table. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.

5) CAPM, portfolio risk, and return

Consider the following information for three stocks, Stocks A, B, and C. The returns on the three stocks are positively correlated, but they are not perfectly correlated. (That is, each of the correlation coefficients is between 0 and 1.)

Fund P has one-third of its funds invested in each of the three stocks. The risk-free rate is 5.5%, and the market is in equilibrium. (That is, required returns equal expected returns.) The data has been collected in the Microsoft Excel Online file below. Open the spreadsheet and perform the required analysis to answer the questions below.

• What is the market risk premium (r_M – r_RF)? Round your answer to two decimal places.

• What is the beta of Fund P? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

• What is the required return of Fund P? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

• Would you expect the standard deviation of Fund P to be less than 14%, equal to 14%, or greater than 14%?

  • less than 14%

  • greater than 14%

  • equal to 14%

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6) Expected Returns: Discrete Distribution

The market and Stock J have the following probability distributions:

• Calculate the expected rate of return for the market. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

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  Calculate the expected rate of return for Stock J. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

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• Calculate the standard deviation for the market. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

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  Calculate the standard deviation for Stock J. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

   %

7)

Expected and Required Rates of Return

You have observed the following returns over time:

Assume that the risk-free rate is 5% and the market risk premium is 6%.

What is the beta of Stock X? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

What is the beta of Stock Y? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to two decimal places.

• What is the required rate of return on Stock X? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to one decimal place.

• What is the required rate of return on a portfolio consisting of 80% of Stock X and 20% of Stock Y? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to one decimal place.

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What is the required rate of return on Stock Y? Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to one decimal place.

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8)

Corporate valuation

Dantzler Corporation is a fast-growing supplier of office products. Analysts project the following free cash flows (FCFs) during the next 3 years, after which FCF is expected to grow at a constant 8% rate. Dantzler’s WACC is 13%.

• What is Dantzler’s horizon, or continuing, value? (Hint: Find the value of all free cash flows beyond Year 3 discounted back to Year 3.) Round your answer to two decimal places. Enter your answer in millions. For example, an answer of $13,550,000 should be entered as 13.55.

• What is the firm’s value today? Round your answer to two decimal places. Enter your answer in millions. For example, an answer of $13,550,000 should be entered as 13.55. Do not round your intermediate calculations.

• Suppose Dantzler has $124 million of debt and 40 million shares of stock outstanding. What is your estimate of the current price per share? Round your answer to two decimal places. Write out your answer completely. For example, 0.00025 million should be entered as 250.

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$  million

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9}NPV profiles

A company is considering two mutually exclusive expansion plans. Plan A requires a $40 million expenditure on a large-scale integrated plant that would provide expected cash flows of $6.39 million per year for 20 years. Plan B requires a $15 million expenditure to build a somewhat less efficient, more labor-intensive plant with an expected cash flow of $3.36 million per year for 20 years. The firm’s WACC is 9%. Calculate each project’s NPV. Round your answers to two decimal places. Do not round your intermediate calculations. Enter your answers in millions. For example, an answer of $10,550,000 should be entered as 10.55.

Plan A: $  million

Plan B: $  million

Calculate each project’s IRR. Round your answer to two decimal places.

Plan A: %

Plan B: %

• By graphing the NPV profiles for Plan A and Plan B, approximate the crossover rate to the nearest percent.

• Calculate the crossover rate where the two projects’ NPVs are equal. Round your answer to two decimal places.

• Why is NPV better than IRR for making capital budgeting decisions that add to shareholder value? The input in the box below will not be graded, but may be reviewed and considered by your instructor.

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10)Capital budgeting criteria

A company has a 11% WACC and is considering two mutually exclusive investments (that cannot be repeated) with the following cash flows:

• What is each project’s NPV? Round your answer to the nearest cent. Do not round your intermediate calculations.

• What is each project’s IRR? Round your answer to two decimal places.

• What is each project’s MIRR? (Hint: Consider Period 7 as the end of Project B’s life.) Round your answer to two decimal places. Do not round your intermediate calculations.

• From your answers to parts a-c, which project would be selected?

• Construct NPV profiles for Projects A and B. Round your answers to the nearest cent. Do not round your intermediate calculations. Negative value should be indicated by a minus sign.

• Calculate the crossover rate where the two projects’ NPVs are equal. Round your answer to two decimal places. Do not round your intermediate calculations.

• What is each project’s MIRR at a WACC of 18%? Round your answer to two decimal places. Do not round your intermediate calculations.

Project A: $ 

Project B: $ 

Project A: %

Project B: %

Project A: %

Project B: %

_________ Project A Project B 

If the WACC was 18%, which project would be selected?

_________ Project A Project B 

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Project B: %

Discussion 2

Research question: What is your confidence level associated with your ability to master statistical analysis at the beginning of this course?

This research question seeks to establish the confidence levels of students in their ability to master statistical analysis. The experiment is conducted at the beginning of the course. Two factors can influence the confidence in this case: first, the confidence in the students’ prior knowledge of course content and second, the confidence in their ability to grasp and master the course content.

Two variables are being measured in this research: independent variable and dependent variable.

Dependent variable:  confidence levels

Independent variable: mastery of statistical analysis

You are at the airport and you see the following quotation at the money exchange both between the US dollars and the Mexican Peso: Ps20.00/$ and Ps 20.50/$

Which statement is correct?

The ask Rate-20.00

All of the above are correct

The bid rate =20.50

The mid rate=20.25

PS525 Foundations of Psychopathology: The Influence of Childhood Abuse on Personality Disorder Development

PS525-1: Demonstrate an understanding of issues surrounding historical and theoretical perspectives in psychopathology.

The purpose of this Assignment is to illustrate the influence of the environment on the development of personality disorders. More specifically, the hypotheses being examined are that a history of child abuse can lead to the development of a personality disorder and, secondly, that the type of abuse can determine the type of personality disorder formed. The Assignment looks specifically at three different personality disorders:

1. Antisocial Personality Disorder

2. Borderline Personality Disorder

3. Avoidant Personality Disorder

Disaster Recovery

In this assignment, you study how disaster recovery plans have evolved over the last decade.

Read “EHR Meltdown: How to Protect Your Patient Data,” which is about how, in 2008, team members from a family practice handled the loss of their data and their suggestions.

Find articles that cover disaster recovery activities in similar facilities from the last two to three years.

• Describe what has changed in disaster recovery since 2008.

Background: As we have learned, a lot of thought goes into the design of a visualization. This week we review how the data types influence the graphing types.*****NOTE THIS IS A NEW DATASET AND HAS NEVER BEEN USED IN ANY CLASS*******You must use this dataset – there will be no option to resubmit if you do not use this dataset****You must include all the required screen shots displaying all the required information including the dataset name – there will be no option to resubmit if you do not include all the required screen shots with the required information***Assignment:

• Use RStudio to generate the list of simple graphs below using the provided dataset

  • The windows are Code/or file contents, Console, Environment/Files (num observations and variables), Plots/Graphs

Graphs to Produce:Pie Chart:

• Create a pie chart of the computer ram

• Label the RAM sizes for each amount of RAM discovered in the dataset formatted as 2GB, or 4GB, or 16GB, as examples – include ALL RAM sizes – this is an example only of the format to use

• Title the pie chart as “Computer Ram”

• Color the pie chart using the rainbow option

Bar Plot:

• Create a barplot of the computer screen sizes

• Label the x axis as “Screen Sizes”

• Label the y axis as “Frequency”

• Title the barplot as “Computer Screen Sizes”

• Color the bars in the barplot any color you wish.

Histogram:

• Create a histogram of the computer prices

• Label the x axis as “Prices”

• Title the histogram as “Computer Prices”

• Give the histogram any color you wish.

Box Plot:

• Create a boxplot of the comparing the computer price and premium category

• Label the y axis as “Price”

• Label the x axis as “Premium”

• Title the boxplot as “Premium Computer Prices Distribution”

• Color the boxplot any color you wish.

Scatter Plot:

• Create a scatter plot of computer price and hard drive size

• Label the x axis as “Hard Drive Size”

• Label the y axis as “Price”

• Title the scatter plot as “Computer Price vs Hard Drive Size”

• Color the scatter any color you wish.