This week, you have read about server virtualization and cloud computing in chapter 6 of your textbook. For your written assignment this week, complete a case study of the organization you work for (use a hypothetical or “other” organization if more applicable) that will address the following prompts:

• Describe the organization’s environment, and evaluate its preparedness for virtualization.
• Explain Microsoft (or another product) licensing for virtualized environments.
• Recommend a configuration for shared storage; make sure to discuss the need for high availability and redundancy for virtualization for the organization.
• Explain Windows Azure capabilities for virtual machines and managing a hybrid cloud, including Windows Azure’s Internet as a Service (IaaS) and storage capabilities

Make a recommendation for cloud computer use in the organization, including a justification for your recommendations.Submit your midterm research paper as a single document. Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately four to five pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.
• Support your answers with the readings from the course and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find resources.
• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

 This assignment consists of two parts:

Part 1: When you write an email to your family, the email is sent  over the Internet. Before the message is sent, it is broken into many  data packets. These data packets are numbered consecutively, but they  are out of order while transferred over the network. The packets need to  be sequenced when they reach the destination computer so your family  can read your message. Discuss how you would sort these packets with two  kinds of sort algorithms.

Part 2: Choose one sort algorithm from the ones covered in this  module and write a program to sort students’ GPA in descending order.  After you are done, send the original Java code along with screenshots  of the result.

Assignment Expectations

1. Discuss and explain clearly why you chose these two kinds of algorithm.
2. Use numbers to demonstrate how these algorithms work. Hint: Create a series of numbers to represent the data packets.

Assignment Description

For this assignment, complete the following steps:

1. Write a research paper of 4-5 pages (cover and references pages not included in page count) that details the design and layout characteristics of Android phone applications.
2. Specifically describe the design process for an Android phone application.
   • Include a discussion of the role of Extensible Markup Language (XML) in the design process and how XML is used in the Android application files.
3. Discuss the best practices and also the problems and solutions regarding design, layout, performance, compatibility, and security.
4. Explain the difference between a light and a heavy layout and how they both relate to overall performance

 UNIT2

Assignment Description

Note: Prior to developing your project, please make sure you have downloaded and installed the Android Studio IDE and the Android Development Tools (ADT) according to the instructions found by clicking here.

Assignment Details

You have been hired to create a mobile application for Healthy Life, a local organic bakery and grocery store. The owners want to offer a mobile application to customers that features recipes that contain ingredients that they sell in their store. Over the next few weeks, you will be developing, testing, and deploying the mobile application based on the specifications provided for each assignment. Once completed, you will be demonstrating the mobile application to the client.

The following specification is what the client has requested:

1. Create a new Android Application Project.
2. The main screen should state the name of the person who owns the phone.
3. The recipe application should have a tile or visual shortcut placed in the application list.
4. The application should have a splash screen that serves as an appropriate graphical advertisement for the application.
5. The application should use an appropriate template design and application icon image.
6. Once opened, the main page of the application should use the page name of Healthy Life and a normal full-screen layout using a 2-column grid control in the Content Panel with 4 buttons in the right column and 4 corresponding images in the left column of the grid control. The text of the four buttons should read: Bread, Fruits, Vegetables, and Soup, respectively. Note: In Phase 5, the buttons will be linked to the corresponding recipe category in a local database.
7. Test your application by running the Android Phone Emulator.
8. Create screenshots of all of the relevant screens of your running application, and save them in a Word document named “yourname_ITSD427_IP2.docx.” You should also use this document to describe the work you performed for this assignment, with specific details regarding the locations and changes of the code you created and modified.
9. Save and close the project. Zip the entire project, including your screenshots and work description, to a file named “yourname_ITSD427_IP2.zip,” and submit the ZIP file to the dropbox.

UNIT3

Assignment Details

Assignment Description

In the prior phase, you started work on some of the application’s graphical user interface (GUI). In this assignment, you will add a data entry form to the GUI and create a local database that will synchronize data to the isolated storage container of the mobile device.

The following are the steps that you need to accomplish:

1. Create a second page with a data entry form and the following fields: recipename, category, ingredients, and instructions.
2. Make the Category field a dropdown box that contains the recipe categories listed in the Individual Project for Unit 2.
3. Create Add and Delete buttons.
4. Create the database necessary to store the information associated with the data entry form.
5. Modify the application code to support addition and deletion of data in the database.
6. Test the application in the Android Phone Emulator.
7. Create screenshots of all of the relevant screens of your running application, and save them in a Word document named “yourname_ITSD427_IP3.docx.” You should also use this document to describe the work you performed for this assignment, with specific details regarding the locations and changes of the code you created and modified.
8. Save and close the project. Zip the entire project, including your screenshots and work description, to a file named “yourname_ITSD427_IP3.zip,” and submit the zip file to the dropbox. 

This assignment consists of two parts:

Part 1:

1. Draw a simple undirected graph G that has 10 vertices and 15 edges.
2. Draw an adjacency list and adjacency matrix representation of the undirected graph in question 1.
3. Write a short paragraph to describe the graph you draw.

Part 2:

1. Based on the course reading in this module and your own research,  use big O notation to explain the complexity and performance of the  following data structures:

Arrays, linked list, and vector

1. Based on the course reading in this module and your own research,  use big O notation to explain the complexity and performance of the  following data structures:

Stacks and Queues

Write a Java program that performs the following tasks:

1. Declare and create a vector with initial size of 10, increment of 2.
2. Add two numbers to this vector, test and display the size of the vector.
3. Add six more numbers to this vector, test and display the size of the vector.
4. Display all elements in the vector.

After you are done, submit the source code with some screenshots.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Demonstrate understanding on how to use Vector in your program.