Assessment Task – Tutorial Questions Unit Code: HC1041 Unit Name: IT for Business Assignment: Tutorial Questions Due: 5:30pm 16th October 2020 Weighting: 40% Purpose: This assignment is designed to...

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Assessment Task – Tutorial Questions Unit Code: HC1041 Unit Name: IT for Business Assignment: Tutorial Questions Due: 5:30pm 16th October 2020 Weighting: 40% Purpose: This assignment is designed to assess your level of knowledge of the key topics covered in this unit Unit Learning Outcomes Assessed.: 1. Evaluate and justify theoretical and practical knowledge of information technology in a business context 2. Analyze information technology issues in a business environment and provide solutions to these issues using their knowledge of information technology and practical techniques in a business environment 3. Understand the ICT profession in information technology 4. Communicate using effective oral and written communication tools, act in a professional manner 5. Review and describe the major privacy, legal, ethical and societal issues with respect to managing digital information and information systems Description: Each week students were provided with three tutorial questions of varying degrees of difficulty. The tutorial questions are available in the Tutorial Folder, for each week, on Blackboard. The Interactive Tutorials are designed to assist students with the process, skills and knowledge to answer the provided tutorial questions. Your task is to answer a selection of tutorial question for weeks 2 to 11 inclusive and submit these answers in a single document. The questions to be answered are; Question 1: Week 2 Question 2 (1.2 × 5 = 6 marks) Describe how five career areas can benefit from computer systems. Question 2: Week 4 Question 3 (1.6 × 5 = 8 marks) Considering a new chain of shoe stores. The marketing department of the corporation would like to know the customers and their preferences. What questions would you ask before developing an IS for data collection and analysis? Please list five questions. Question 3: Week 7 Question 2 (2 × 3 = 6 marks) List three jobs in which working from home is infeasible. Explain why remote work doesn’t work for everyone. Question 4: Week 9 Question 1 (3 + 3 = 6 marks) If you were giving advice to a business on using social media, what would you list as advantages and disadvantages? Question 5: Week 10 Question 1 (2 × 3 = 6 marks) Give three examples of cultural imperialism. Why do you think your examples reflect cultural imperialism? Question 6: Week 11 Question 1 (2 × 4 = 8 marks) What is a geographic information system (GIS)? What purpose does it server? Name the two major elements that are combined to make up a GIS. Submission Directions: The assignment has to be submitted via Blackboard. Each student will be permitted one submission to Blackboard only. Each student needs to ensure that the document submitted is the correct one. Academic Integrity Holmes Institute is committed to ensuring and upholding Academic Integrity, as Academic Integrity is integral to maintaining academic quality and the reputation of Holmes’ graduates. Accordingly, all assessment tasks need to comply with academic integrity guidelines. Table 1 identifies the six categories of Academic Integrity breaches. If you have any questions about Academic Integrity issues related to your assessment tasks, please consult your lecturer or tutor for relevant referencing guidelines and support resources. Many of these resources can also be found through the Study Skills link on Blackboard. Academic Integrity breaches are a serious offence punishable by penalties that may range from deduction of marks, failure of the assessment task or unit involved, suspension of course enrolment, or cancellation of course enrolment. Table 1: Six categories of Academic Integrity breaches Plagiarism Reproducing the work of someone else without attribution. 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Describe how five career areas can benefit from computer systems.
1. Big data engineer- The big data engineers are mainly known for communicating with users and data scientist of the business to have a goal of translating all the objectives of the business into data processing these positions need to robbers knowledge of all the statistics and experience of the prog
ramming to implement working solution for big data challenges.
2. Applications architect- The applications architect needs to have a high level technical expert ice show that they can Excel into the areas of coordination, planning, teamwork and communication these professional have a task to design major aspects of the architecture for any application and provide technical leadership to the team to perform design and code reviews to make sure that the application can be the standard.
3. Web developer- The web developer is responsible to build and maintain a website because the website is the primary property of any organization as the public face and it is very important for the developers to understand the needs of the business and build a website which can accommodate them. This position needs to have in depth knowledge about the Internet protocols and development languages like JavaScript, HTML, CSS and PHP as well
4. Database administrator- The data administration needs to have specialized software which can store and organise the data securely to make sure that data is available for the users and it is secure from the unauthorised access. Additional duties for them is to identify the user needs for creating administrating the databases and performing some modifications to its structure as per the requirement.
7. Data security analyst- The data security analyst can use their complete information about the network security and computer which also include different aspects about network protocols, encryption technologies and firewall administration to perform risk assessment and security in the organization.
Considering a new chain of shoe stores. The marketing department of the corporation would like to know the customers and their preferences. What questions would you ask before developing an IS for data collection and analysis? Please list five questions.
for collecting the data and analysing it we can ask the following questions to understand the customers and their preferences (Chan, Z.C., Fung, Y.L. and Chien, W.T).
· Where the data is present which means we can ask the questions like which data sources are used in the organization, how familiar with the schema and tables in each database, when the data has to be standardised , will I analyse data which is collected from external sources, do I have to get permission to access the data and do I need all the data to perform granular analysis or just a subset is enough.
· The second major question is do you have to change the data in which we can ask for the completeness, accuracy and reliability of the data from each source, can we use the data for answering the questions in business, can the tool get connected with the row data to perform data discovery and if there are any inconsistent or redundant values in the data set which needs to be clean.
· How can we connect with the data in which we can ask the relationships which are present between the fields, is there any need of scalability for data model, is it easy to add the data sources and make changes to the model and can we simplify the relationship without affecting the performance.
· 3rd question is related with the consolidation of the data. It is mainly related with creation of the summary tables for analysing the data and joining the...
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