1. Please describe 2-3 previous project management experiences (i.e. what company was it for, what was the project, what was your role, who was the client, etc.)?
2. Please desribe 2-3 experiences you have working cross-functionally? How do you foster relationships with those teams?
3. Please describe 2-3 experiences you have working with external clients? What was the level of contacts you worked with? How did you ensure you effectively communicated what was expected/needed from them?

 1. This chapter’s opening scenario illustrates a specific type of incident/disaster. Using a Web browser, search for information related to preparing an organization against terrorist attacks. Look up information on (a) anthrax or another biological attack (like smallpox), (b) sarin or another toxic gas, (c) low-level radiological contamination attacks.
2. Using a Web browser, search for available commercial applications that use various forms of RAID technologies, such as RAID 0 through RAID 5. What is the most common implementation? What is the most expensive?

Requirements:

• Type your responses with proper headings in a word document.
• Detailed and significant scholarly answers will be graded with full point value. Incomplete, inaccurate, or inadequate answers will receive less than full credit depending on the answers provided.

Write a Python program that reads in the academic achievements of three international applicants and determines which one is the best candidate for the university graduate program. To this end: 

1. Write a function named getInputs that reads in the academic achievements of an applicant, which are ranking of the undergraduate university (low-ranked, medium-ranked, top-ranked and of type string), undergraduate GPA ([0.0-4.0] and of type float), TOEFL score ([0-120] and of type int), GRE score ([260-340] and of type int), and number of publications (of type int). The function takes no arguments and returns a tuple containing the five inputs gotten from the user [15 pts]. 


2. Write a function named computeNormGPA that takes the undergraduate university ranking and GPA of an applicant as arguments and returns a normalized GPA in [0.0, 1.0]. The normalized GPA is (rank weight * GPA) / 4, in which rank weight is 0.9, 1.0, 1.1 for low-ranked, medium-ranked, high- ranked, respectively. If the result of ((rank weight * GPA) / 4) is greater than 1, it must be rounded to 1.0 [15 pts]. 


3. Write a function named computeNormTestScore that takes TOEFL score and GRE score as argu- ments and returns the normalized test score. The normalized test score is ( 0.6 * (TOEFL Score / 120) + 0.4 * (GRE Score / 340) [15 pts]. 


4. Write a function named computeNormPubScore that takes the number of publications of an appli- cant as argument and returns normalized publication score, which is 0 if the applicant has no publication, 0.5 if the applicant has only one publication, and 1.0 if the applicant has 2 or more publications [15 pts]. 


5. Write a function named computeNormTotalScore that takes undergraduate university ranking, un- dergraduate GPA, TOEFL score, GRE score, and number of publications of an applicant as arguments and returns a normalized total score, which is (0.5 * normalized GPA + 0.3 * normalized test score + 0.2 * normalized publication score) [15 pts]. 
Hint: Call computeNormGPA, computeNormTestScore, and computeNormPubScore inside this function. 


6. Write a function named findBestCandidate that gets academic achievements of three applicants from the user, computes the normalized total score for each applicant, prints the total score of each applicant with four digits of precision, and determines the best candidate based on the normalized total score. The function takes no arguments and returns no value [25 pts]. 
Hint: Call getInputs to get the academic achievements of each applicant from the user and compute- NormTotalScore to compute the normalized total score of each applicant inside this function.

 Provide a 100 word discussion reply to the following post below.

There are many new trends when referring to web technologies. One big trend that is being used in huge companies like IBM and Amazon is blockchain technology. “Blockchain technology enables distributed public ledgers that hold immutable data in a secure and encrypted way and ensure that transactions can never be altered.” (“Blockchain”) The financial sector has experienced tremendous positive impacts from blockchain technology. Although, the technology is finding other uses besides just cryptocurrencies. Uses like data storage, asset management, an array of transactions, and even real estate are just some areas being explored. Using blockchain is understandable as it will give you increased security, fraud reduction, less risk, and more. “Currently, researchers are delving into deeper realms, attempting to incorporate blockchain into more sophisticated areas of technology such as big data, IoT, and most especially; Artificial Intelligence.” (Budko, 2018) When AI and Blockchain are merged together, many more businesses can profit from this new technology. The businesses will get accurate data, high security, and be able to execute while AI can assist in other ways needed like making decisions. AI has had an issue with availability of data from numerous sources. This issue is something blockchain can most definitely assist with. Blockchain would fix the issue of accessible data by developing the notion of peer-to-peer connection. “Since it is an open distributed registry, the data becomes accessible to everyone on the network.” (Budko, 2018) If there is concern of any crisis, disaster, or hacking the data will not be stored in one specific location, so all of the data would be preserved in these scenarios. I think the blockchain technology is highly important as technology advances. It is even more impressive when paired with AI. Privacy and security are so important for not only businesses but individuals as well. This technology is ideal to address these concerns. “The future of technology is inevitably a decentralized system of operation, whereby machines interact better and the understanding of human activities is better modeled.” (Budko, 2018)

Resources

Blockchain. (n.d.). Retrieved February 5, 2019, from https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/blockchain/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0M2Gtbel4AIVWrbACh2RSAo0EAAYAiAAEgIadvD_BwE

Budko, D. (2018, February 12). How Blockchain Can Transform Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved from https://dashbouquet.com/blog/blockchain/how-blockchain-can-transform-artificial-intelligence

Using a Web browser, search for “incident response template.” Look through the first five results and choose one for further investigation. Take a look at it and determine if you think it would be useful to an organization creating a CSIRT. Why or why not?350 words APA format with references