Evaluation and Selection worksheet ( one part of Life Cycle Project ) Writing Assignment Help

PART- 1

Your paper will be the result of investigation into one of the areas of technology as specified below. Once you have identified a hypothesis, your review of recent literature will gather information on the experiences of others in implementing/managing similar technologies and be used to defend your position.

Enterprise Architecture (Whitepaper)

What type of Enterprise Architecture is it?

What type of EA framework is utilized?

What types of disciplines and processes were involved?

How was the role of the Enterprise Architect affected, or how was the role of Enterprise Architect received?

What was the maturity level of the Enterprise Architecture at, or achieved?

Notes/Guidance:

Select a company or system that you are familiar with, have used, or want to learn about. Evaluate the Enterprise Architecture from your research and defend your response.

The report will be a minimum of 3000 words and this shall not include the cover page, index page, and bibliography page.

The bibliography shall contain at least 5 citations from appropriate books/journals. (Not including the course texts).

PART- 2

Research Paper Presentation: (Prepare and present your Whitepaper):

No Color

You need to submit transcript and power point presentation together before due date.

You can use following course text as only reference.

¹¹¹ Chi –Square Distribution to test

the independence of two variables

Step 1: Set up the hypotheses:

H The software made no difference in sales.

H¹ The software increased sales.

Step 2: Compute the expected frequency for each cell in the contingency table by use of the formula:

E=Expected frequency= (Row total)(Column Total)

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Sample size

Step 3: Compute the statistic χ ²=Σ(O-E)² / E

Where O is the observed frequency, E is the expected

frequency and the sum Σ are over all cells.

Step 4: Find the critical value χ²α in Table A. 10 page 648. Use the level of significance of 0.01 and the number of degrees of freedom. d.f. to find the critical value.

d.f.= (R-1)(C-1) ( 2-1) (4-1)= 3

Critical Value= 11.3449

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where R is the number of rows and C is the number of columns of cells in the contingency table. The critical region consists of all values of χ²α.

Step5: Compare the sample statistic χ² of Step 3 with the critical value of χ²α of Step 4. If the sample statistic is larger, reject the null hypothesis of independence. Otherwise, do not reject the null hypothesis.

Problem

Company W is testing a sales software. It sales force of 500 people is divided into four regions: Northeast, Southeast, Central and West. Each sales person is expected to sell the same amount of products. During the last 3 months , only half of the sales representatives in each region were given the VP of Sales at WidgeCorp, who is comfortable with

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statistics, wants to know the possible null and alternative hypotheses for a nonparametric test on this data using the chi-square distribution. A nonparametric test is used on data that are qualitative or categorical, such as gender, age group, region and color. It is used when it does not make sense to look at the mean of such variables.

Use the chi-square test to determine if the software increased sales at the 0.01 level of significance.

Sales Sales Sales Sales Row Totals

__NE________SE______C______W_______________________

200 225 200 250 875 Software

115 75 120 80 390 No Software

315 300 320 330 1265

Use the chi square test to determine if the software made a difference in sales at the 0.01 level of significance.

Read the prompt below. Decide how you want to approach the topic. Then write a narrative response.

Answer with a minim of 550 words.

Well developed. Introduction to the main ideas..ideas and conclusion

Prompt

As much as humans like to control their own lives, there are many aspects that are outside of our control. For example, we do not choose the families into which we are born or the places where we grow up. The same is sometimes true of friendships. Some friends we choose because we identify them as people who are similar to us and because they offer us something we want. Occasionally, however, we make unexpected friends. For example, a young person bumps into someone at the library who is crying because she has lost an important paper she was writing for school. As a result, the two become friends and learn that helping people through tough times is at the core of strong relationships.

Discussion Board Topic: To Be or Not To Be Delinquent? Main post

Reflecting on your youth, think about you and your peers. Which sociological factors impacted your decision to engage or not engage in delinquent behavior?
Deliverable Length: 1-2 paragraph

1)Jorge Labeling Theory

The article i posted was about Slenderman. These two girls believed to please a fictional character they needed to murder another person. They chose to stab their classmate who survived. The Labeling Theory within these girls is not strong yet. Both of these girls pleaded mentally ill. As part of their plea deal, they will have to go to a mental institution for years. These girls didn’t know what they were doing was wrong. Currently, they aren’t labeling themselves as criminal or a psychotic person. When these girls are released, people who know what they did will label them as psychotic.The reason being, Slenderman was a fictional character and they wanted to please a fake monster.

2)Michael Labeling Theory

In my article there were some boys that got caught stealing cars. They will be labeled as thieves and criminals in everyone’s perspective and in my opinion since they are from neighborhood such as park ridge they are held to a high standard so they will be judged harshly by others. The only reason I think that specifically is because there is not a lot of crime in that area and it it predominantly white so when they hear about such a crime then everyone around will know about it and will points fingers and start asking how and why didn’t the parents stop them before it got to that point.

Answer each of the following question well and clear…Do not copy or make plagarism..NO COPY IDEAS FROM THE WEB.

OWN WORDS

1) Review the list of presidential roles 1. Provide at least one example in which one or more of these roles could be at odds with one or more of his or her other roles. What are the implications of this

2) Why are Supreme Court justices appointed for life?

3) What might be some benefits of requiring justices to serve a defined and limited term?

4) What might be some benefits of requiring justices to retire at a certain age?

5) Referring to the average length of time modern justices sit on the Supreme Court, one law professor stated that, “Serving 25 years or more is too long in a democracy.” What do you think he meant by that?

6) Do you support the current life appointment system or do you think justices should be forced to retire? Explain your answer.

For the Lam Research Group, please look at their long term sources of financing and calculate their weighted average cost of capital (WACC) in an excel spreadsheet.

Specific Instructions:

WACC (Excel worksheet). Please add to your final project spreadsheet started in Phase I. Calculate your cost of debt using techniques such as YTM for traded bonds and Z-score (please remember that the z-score calculation is NOT the cost of debt itself – see lecture slides). Calculate cost of equity using CAPM and the Dividend Growth Model (if your firm pays dividends. Calculate cost of preferred stock (if any) using the perpetuity formula. Combine these component costs using the WACC formula. Calculate the company’s ONE terminal value calculation (this will be its own Excel workbook). Terminal value is the calculated value of the company from year 6 to infinity, then this value is discounted to the present from year five.

IMPORTANT: All components of the WACC must be documented. If you calculate it, you must show the calculation and the source of the data you are using. If a number comes from an outside source, then you must document where you got it, including a web link to the source.