Assignment #5: Professional Cover Letter

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Due Week 10 and worth 180 points

Completing this assignment will help you name and identify the skills and abilities that will move your career forward.

Find a specific job opening posted online within the last 9 months. You will develop a Job Application Cover Letter (as though you were applying to that position) that highlights and emphasizes why you are the most suitable candidate for this position. For the purposes of this assignment, you can present yourself as a recent graduate if needed.

Complete the cover letter on page 1 of the submission and then include a link to the job posting on page 2 (a copy and paste of the link is acceptable and the link must work). To compose the letter, use the general writing guidelines on pp. 266-267 in the text for structural and content guidance. Note: An example can be found on p. 263, Figure 13.8.

The message should take the form of a business letter; however, you will submit your assignment to the online course shell.

The job letter / application message must adhere to the following requirements:

  1. Content
    1. Highlight relevant background and job history information specific to the opening.
    2. Emphasize significant qualifications and exclude nonessential ideas.
  2. Format
    1. Follow proper letter formatting techniques per business letter format.
    2. Use an appropriate and professional greeting and closing.
  3. Style
    1. Use professional language.
    2. Paragraphs effectively developed and efficient. Note: Six (6) or seven (7) lines when possible.
  4. Mechanics
    1. Make sure there are no grammar or spelling errors.
    2. Eliminate wordiness and unclear sentence construction.

Your assignment must be typed, single-spaced within paragraphs and double spaced between the paragraphs, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  1. Plan, create, and evaluate professional documents.
  2. Write clearly, coherently, and persuasively using proper grammar, mechanics, and formatting appropriate to the situation.
  3. Deliver professional information to various audiences using appropriate tone, style, and format.
  4. Develop presentation skills for use in the professional environment.

To download the assignment instructions provided above and assignment rubric, click here.

Computer science security (attempt question 2 only) 3 pages 750 words

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Computer Security. Refer to the attachment for the question.

References is APA

Planet of the Grapes, a local wine and spirit merchant
currently operates in three stores around Perth. Stores are independent from
one another and there is no data sharing between stores, although this is not
by design but simply a by-product of faster than expected expansion. The
organisation is now moving into the online arena and has contracted your
computer consulting company to perform a variety of audits on their computer
network. The owners have never employed any IT security staff in the past and
have preferred to set up systems for themselves. However, it has become
apparent that the risks of moving business systems online are not to be
ignored. For this reason you are being asked to investigate the security of the
system and make recommendations.

There are two distinct tasks being requested in this
phase of the audit. Each of these should be answered separately.

Question 2:
Legacy code (40 marks)

The Internet in Perth is notoriously bad and the
Internet connection between Planet of the Grapes and their bank is down on a
regular basis. To avoid losing out on any purchases during outages, Planet of
the Grapes intends to allow offline purchases (as in the good old times).
However, credit card data entered by a customer still needs to be verified
offline to prevent malicious users from trying to buy goods with fake credit
card numbers.

Planet of the Grapes staff have acquired an
application that can do this, but they suspect that this program (supposedly
implemented in C) is vulnerable to a critical and very common type of software
security vulnerability. Planet of the Grapes has supplied you with a copy of
the program (part of
http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/szander/ICT287/assignment1/form.php.) When you
inquire about this software you learn that it cannot be patched as the code is
part of a suite of utilities supplied by the financial provider and Planet of
the Grapes cannot get access to the code.

Name and explain the type of vulnerability. Discuss
what types of systems it affects and why it happens (what is the issue?).
Discuss the impact of the vulnerability and how it may be exploited
theoretically.

Besides discussing how the vulnerability may be
exploited in general, discuss the impact of the vulnerability in this specific
case of the credit card validation tool and describe and demonstrate (e.g.
screenshot) how it can be exploited. It is not required to use a disassembler
for this task, simply manipulating the tool’s input directly is sufficient.

Given that it is not possible to patch the code
directly, there is no vendor update and it must remain in use, make at least 3
different recommendations that would reduce the risk this application poses.
The recommendation must be specific to this case and not general mitigation
strategies that do not apply in this case.

These description of the vulnerability and the
recommendations should be presented in a format suitable for a general
technical audience – i.e. someone who is proficient in IT in general, but may
not be a security expert. Citations should be used where appropriate.

The expected answer length is approximately 2-3 pages
and the answer must not be longer 4 pages.

Assignment Help

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Please no plagiarism. The state is montana. Attached is the worksheet as well. Please complete that.

Review the Rural, Suburban, and Urban Issues Worksheet completed in Week 2. Note. If you did not complete this worksheet in Week 2, complete it now to help you organize your thoughts.

Select a local government within your state to analyze. You may select either an urban, suburban, or rural government to review.

Prepare a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation addressing the following:

  • Describe which area you chose: urban, suburban, or rural. Briefly describe the area’s demographics and characteristics.
  • Describe the local form of government and identify the major elected officials of your selected area.
  • Identify the major public policy issues, current events, and challenges this government faces and analyze one in depth.
  • Discuss how the state government is addressing the issue you selected.
  • Provide at least two potential, realistic solutions to the public policy issues, current events, and challenges this government faces.

Include speaker notes to provide more in-depth information.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

Market Research Implementation Plan: Final Plan

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The following is the instruction for the team paper , but my part is only the questions which are listed below:

  • Develop at least one data collection instrument to address your market research scenario. (150-200 words)
  • Recommend sampling procedures for the implementation of the instruments. (150-200 words)

Please only answer the questions listed above within minimum 300 words and maximum 400 words (for both questions .

NOTE: Use in-text citations according to the references used, each question has to have only 1 peer reviewed reference. (This is a research class so the answer has to come from a good source, not just your own opinion)

VERY Important note: See attached files from week 2 and week 3 read them before answering these questions. the scenario and the product (service) has to be the same for this week’s paper. Make sure you mention the company’s name and the new product (service) within the answers.

The following is the paper’s instructions ( my parts are the bolded questions only) ignore the other listed questions.

Write a 525- to 700-word Market Research Implementation Plan based on the scenario you selected in your Week 2 Learning Team Assignment: Market Research Implementation Plan: Problem Identification and Project Outline.

Continue and revise the previous paper to address the following in your plan:

  • Describe your business scenario.
  • Explain secondary market research concerning and applied to the selected scenario.
  • Discuss the research design used in your project, such as qualitative, quantitative, or mixed.
  • Develop at least one data collection instrument to address your market research scenario. (my part to answer)
  • Recommend sampling procedures for the implementation of the instruments. (my part to answer)
  • Create figures and tables to demonstrate marketing information.
  • Develop a timeline for implementation
  • Create an Executive Summary to place at the beginning of the plan.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

SEE ATTACHED FILES PLEASE!

Brad is 45 years old and has been working as a coal cutter in a mine for the last 25 years

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Brad is 45 years old and has been working as a coal cutter in a mine for the last 25 years. He likes the job because it pays well and the same mine had employed his father. Like many of his colleagues, Brad has had problems with a chronic cough. He has avoided his annual checkups for fear that he will be told he has “black lung,” or coal worker’s pneumoconiosis. The disease causes fibrosis, decreased diffusing capacity, and permanent small airway dilation. In later stages, pulmonary capillaries, alveoli, and airways are destroyed.

  1. How can the disease described above create a mismatch between ventilation and perfusion? Use your understanding of alveolar dead space and physiologic shunt to explain your answer.
  2. Individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have more difficulty exhaling than inhaling. Why is this so?
  3. In general terms, what mechanisms in lung disease can affect diffusing capacity across alveolar membranes? Use the Fick law to explain your answer. Make sure all of the topics in the case study have been addressed. Cite at least three sources; journal articles, textbooks or evidenced-based websites to support the content. All sources must be within 5 years. Do not use .com, Wikipedia, or up-to-date, etc., for your sources.

Construct a minimum 600 word memorandum for the SVP providing insights and commentary for Hatley Davidson

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Purpose of Assignment

This assignment is designed to help students analyze and interpret primary and/or secondary data and research. First, students will be provided with a marketing report that allows for preparing basic executive level data insights. Second, they will be allowed to pick a company and product or service. This assignment will help prepare students for the development of their marketing plan. Students will be creating a marketing plan (refer to Marketing Plan Outline and Timeline document, and carefully review Instructor Announcement titled, “MKT 571 USE OF TOOLS FOR COMPLETING THE MARKETING PLAN”) so they should choose a company and product or service that has sufficient appropriate data readily available to provide insights.

Assignment Steps

Part 1:

Analyze the Week 1 Business Growth Overview dataset. This is a marketing report generated by an analyst for the Senior Vice President (SVP) of Marketing at a large corporation. The analyst is new and has provided summary data but no insights or commentary for the SVP.

Construct a minimum 600 word memorandum for the SVP providing insights and commentary. The memorandum should include your analysis of the following:

• Major areas of increase and decrease in revenue or type and/or category of business

• Trends that are evident in terms of revenue or type and/or category of business

• Insights that would help formulate marketing strategies to either continue growth or reverse decline

• Additional analysis you (if you were SVP) would like to build a marketing goal and strategy or strategies (and why)

Part 2:

Select a global or multi-regional (does business in more than one country) company and one of its products or services that will serve as the basis for your Marketing Plan. You must gain Instructor approval of this selection prior to beginning this Marketing Plan project. See Instructor Announcement titled, “MKT 571 MARKETING PLAN PROJECT APPROVALS” and ensure compliance. Company and product selection is a critical part of this project. You must ensure your proposed company can implement all the appropriate marketing methods as discussed in the text, Marketing Management. At a minimum, you should obtain two years of annual reports as well as two years of 10K reports (provides a comprehensive overview of the company’s business and financial condition and includes audited financial statements) for your data source. Once you have selected your product or service, you must define the size and type of your selected company that provides the product or service (available from annual reports). This need not be elaborate but must include total number of employees, production volume, distribution methods, and so forth. Record this information in a summary document as outlined below.

Prepare a minimum 250 word summary document and submit it here as a further detailed record of your selection. The summary document should include the following:

• Name of Company

• Location of Company Headquarters

• Name of Product or Service selected

• General description of company (number of employees, revenue, type of ownership, web page, etc.)

• General description of product or service

write at least 3 paragraphs on 1 of the following topics:

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Ethics and the SEC

Primary Task Response: Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this course. Based on your review and reflection, write at least 3 paragraphs on 1 of the following topics:

  • What
    are some examples of major ethical breaches in the recent past that
    have led to increased scrutiny in the field of financial reporting and
    analysis? Why are they important to a firm’s stakeholders and the public
    at large?
  • What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and what are some of
    the elements of this Act that were designed to protect the integrity of
    the financial statements prepared and disseminated by publicly traded
    companies?
  • What is the SEC, and what is its role in protecting
    the integrity of financial statements prepared and disseminated by
    publically traded companies?

Be sure to document your statements with credible sources, in-text citations, and references using proper APA format.

Strategic Plan Continuation: Financial Plan

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Need assistance with a financial plan, creating a projected budget on Excel and a narrative.

NOTE: This is a continuation for Healing Hands LTCH Strategic Plan.

Please see Attachments for instructions.

RUBRIC:

Budget Spread Sheet =

  • Created a projected budget in a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet that contains a 3 to 5-year financial projection including detailed expenditures, income, and gain or loss.
  • Capital Expense and/or Contingency expense is included in the budget spread sheet.
  • Description of assumptions
  • Strategies to increase volume.
  • Describe the Elements of the projected budget
  • Describe the Capital Expense Plan and the Contingency Plan
  • Describe the organization’s current business model.
  • Evaluate the budget assumptions listed in the budget.

Included on Spreadsheet – (See Sample Budget for Format on attached spreadsheet).

  • Description of assumptions
  • Strategies to increase volume

Strategic Plan Financial Plan =

Identify and explain the details of the strategies to increase volume for the narrative (See attachment for complete instructions)

  • Describe the Elements of the projected budget
  • Describe the Capital Expense Plan and the Contingency Plan
  • Describe the organization’s current business model.
  • Evaluate the budget assumptions listed in the budget.
  • Identify and explain the details of the strategies to increase volume.

Must include at least 4 in-text citations – peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar resources to support your information. (No Wikipedia, use only trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality)

Format the paper according to APA guidelines

Business Data Communications Research Outline, communications homework help

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During this course, you will participate in a research project and electronic presentation of a topic related to the telecommunication or business data networks. There are three main purposes of the research project:

1. To investigate, in depth, an area of data networking that is used in business networks today.
2. To develop communication, collaboration, and presentation skills in an electronic setting.
3. Apply the data network concepts covered in this course to a practical organizational setting.

Attached is the Topic for the research…

In this module, identify at least 8 credible research sources for your topic. These may include trade journals, professional journals, textbooks other than the course text, trade shows, Web sites, interviews (by phone or in person) with experts, and field trips. Remember, Wikipedia or similar sources should not be used in a research project.

Do your research and organize your findings to focus on the main points and trends concerning your research area. Create a four-page outline of the key areas that will be included in the presentation.

Your submission should be in a Word document, double spaced, and in 12-point Times New Roman font.

Use the American Psychological Association (APA) style (6th edition) for writing your assignment.

Application: Intelligence and Achievement Assessments

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Communicating results to clients is often one of the most important aspects of the assessment process. For this Assignment, reflect on the case of Jadine. Using the ACT results that were presented in her case and one other assessment that was used, draft a transcription of how you as the counselor might report the results to Jadine. Also include any questions you may anticipate being asked.

The Assignment is a transcription of a hypothetical dialogue between Jadine and you as her counselor and should include:

  • Cover page (including your name, name of the assessment, person you assessed, date of assessment)
  • Dialogue should include:
    • The name and purpose of each assessment
    • Explanation of the results
    • Relevant information Jadine would need to fully understand the results
  • References for assessment used and any other material referenced throughout the dialogue

The transcription should not exceed 10 pages, including the cover page and references. The focus of the dialogue is to explain the results of the assessment and help Jadine understand what the results mean for her. Remember to incorporate ethical and multicultural considerations in the dialogue.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are required to provide a reference list and to appropriately cite, in APA style, all references used within your Assignment

Use the document attached to complete the transcript for the assignment