Chapter 17 introduced some challenges to policy making in developing countries. If you were an analyst working for the St. Petersburg Informational and Analytical Center, explain how you would use data available to you to prepare a report for the Governor for the State Program “Combating Proliferation of Drugs.” Briefly explain what you would include in your report to detail the problem, and what the forecast results would be for each of several responses to the problem. (You do not have to use actual data from a real model for this discussion.) The idea is to focus on how models can use real data to create forecasts. 

Note: please ref attached doc(chapter 17)

Scenario

You are the lead developer for the software development team at Great Code Inc. Your company has been contracted by the Acme Company, a small manufacturing company, to develop a set of software system solutions to bring their existing manual, paper ordering process into an automated, digital online ordering system. The Acme Company has very limited experience with the process of developing software.

Instructions

The Program Manger has asked you to develop a test plan for the Acme Company online ordering system project that includes the following:

• Ensure that at least three types of testing techniques are detailed within the test plan.
• Construct at least three test cases within each type of testing technique.
• Within each test case, detail the scope of the test case, the procedure in executing the test, and the success/failure criteria.

1. Using the components of risk assessment documentation presented in the chapter, draft a tentative risk assessment of a lab, department, or office at your university. Outline the critical risks you found and discuss them with your class.

2. Create a spreadsheet that takes eight values that a user inputs into eight different cells. Then create a row that transposes the cells to simulate a transposition cipher, using the example transposition cipher from the text. Remember to work from right to left, with the pattern 1 > 3, 2 > 6, 3 > 8, 4 > 1, 5 > 4, 6 > 7, 7 > 5, 8 > 2 where 1 is the rightmost of the eight cells. Input the text ABCDEFGH as single characters into the first row of cells. What is displayed?

3. Go to the Web site of VeriSign, one of the market leaders in digital certificates. Determine whether VeriSign serves as a registration authority, certificate authority, or both. Download its free guide to PKI and summarize VeriSign’s services.

4. Go to csrc.nist.gov and locate “Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 197.” What encryption standard does this address use? Examine the contents of this publication and describe the algorithm discussed. How strong is it? How does it encrypt plaintext?

Dear Students,
After you review all course materials attached below please answer the following question.

Assignment:

Which skills do you think are more important for information technology project managers to possess at various points in their careers: strong technical skills or strong communications skills?