In June 2017, a story appeared in the Washington Post about a federally funded program in which the digital divide is deeply implicated. In October, 2018, another story appeared which is the most recent update, at the time these instructions are being written, on the same federal program. Copies of both these 2017 and 2018 stories — by Brian Fung — will be placed in the attachments. They should give you some helpful background information on the specific federal program as well as societal reactions to that program. This background material is necessary for you to write your essay, so be sure you have read and understood both stories. For the final essay, here is your task. Write me an essay, minimum 1500 words in length, not counting references. The specific question to focus on in this essay has two parts: Part 1. Presume that the LifeLine Program is continued. How and why might the LifeLine Program potentially close the digital divide? Part 2. Presume that the LifeLine Program is not continued. How and why might this closure have no effect on the digital divide? You must address both parts of that question in your essay. Answering only Part 1 or Part 2 is not enough. This is not a question with a necessarily “Right” or “Wrong” answer; like many real-life questions, it is too complex for that. Rather, what we will be grading you for is your ability to support a well-constructed argument with high-quality, relevant sources of evidence. A rubric showing how the essays will be graded will be placed in the attachments. The essay will be graded by one of two people: the professor or your TA. The professor is asked to resolve dilemmas encountered by the TAs as necessary. Style and content requirements: Please use APA style for your citations. It is not necessary to format the body of the paper using APA style; we do not need to see an abstract; the citations are what we are focusing on. This means using in-text citations using the author/date style, for example (Smith, 2019) when you are citing material in the body of the paper, instead of using footnotes [1]. It also means using APA style for the references at the end of your paper. A minimum of 5 citations to scholarly literature is required for this essay exam [see below for definition of “scholarly”]: Three of the 5 scholarly citations *must* be to readings assigned during any week of this course — anything appearing in the syllabus is considered assigned. These readings will be placed in attachments. The other 2 scholarly citations must be to readings of your choice from “outside” every week of the course–anything NOT appearing in the syllabus is considered non-assigned. The Washington Post articles about LifeLine do not count towards this minimum of 5 citations. (They aren’t scholarly, anyway). Note well: For the purposes of this final exam, “scholarly” is defined this way: * it “has citations” and * it is “not Wikipedia”. A citation is a reference to the source of information used by the author to express their thoughts. In the scholarly materials you find, a citation *may* appear as a footnote, for example [2] and it *may* appear as an in-text citation (Smith, 2019); it depends on the academic field and the style used in that field. If you are unsure whether something is a citation, inspect it to see if you can see a source of information. For example, in footnote 2, below, the source of information is a journal that I made up called “The Journal of Final Exam Writing.” If you can’t see a source of information– it’s probably not a citation!

4. How do “paper plate” systems improve efficiency?

8. What is state? What is irreproducible state?

14. What are the benefits of moving variations to the end of the process?

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3. What are the benefits of IaC?

9. What is idempotency? Why are most CM systems idempotent?

14. Suppose you are going to cook dinner. You have no ingredients, so you must buy them. Then you must mix and cook them. Finally, you serve the food at a dinner table. Suppose the world was controlled by computers. Write a pseudo-program to make dinner using an imaginary imperative language, and another pseudo-program to make dinner in an imaginary declarative language.  (Hint: Study the syntax of modern/popular declarative languages such as “Ant” and “make”.)

 * You will found all answer in Chapter 3 & 4 

This is link for text book:

http://ebook-dl.com/item/the-practice-of-system-and-network-thomas-a-limoncelli

Information Systems

Case Study 2: Federal CIO Council’s Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Toolkit

The consumerization of Information Technology (IT) has given rise to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon in which employees bring personally owned mobile devices to the workplace and connect them to the corporate network. The Federal CIO Council released a BYOD Toolkit that includes three case studies of agencies that are implementing BYOD. Read “Bring Your Own Device – A Toolkit to Support Federal Agencies Implementing Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Programs”, located at http://www.whitehouse.gov/digitalgov/bring-your-own-device.
Write a two to four (2-4) page paper in which you:
1. Examine the three (3) case studies in the toolkit in terms of:
a. policy implications.
b. “opt in” and “opt out” of government-provided devices.
c. expenditure reduction by the Federal government or State governments.
2. Examine the IT support requirements for the employee devices.
3. Examine potential security risks, data breaches, and lost devices. Provide guidelines on how these risks could be mitigated.
4. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.