CLA 1 Comprehensive Learning Assessment 

Case Study: Proposing a Data Gathering Approach at TLG Solutions (pages 171 – 175)

Read the TLG Solutions case and consider the following questions:

1. What is the client requesting, and what goal does the client have for this project?
2. What are the presenting problems?
3. What do you believe may be any underlying problems?
4. Which of these underlying problems is most likely? Why?
5. What data would illustrate whether these underlying problems are occurring?
6. Which method of data gathering would you use and why? (Consider using the method of analysis shown in Table 7.2.)
7. Write a proposal that explains what data you will gather through what means (interviews, surveys, focus groups, observations, and/or unobtrusive measures). Include any questions you might ask, observations you would undertake, and/or documents you would want to gather.
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of your data gathering choice(s)?
9. Include a rationale and proposed timeline for your approach and any details about the data gathering method itself, including possible interview or survey questions, documents to gather, or observations you would conduct.
10. Finally, ensure that your proposal addresses any additional contracting needs you may have in your relationship with Greenfield.

Post a summary of your research and recommendations to your colleagues covering the
following:
• What network security issues could you encounter?
• What (if any) data classification issues are there to consider?
• What identity management issues need to be considered?
• How would you share responsibilities for securing your project with the Service
Provider?
• How does Cloud security compare to on-prem security?
• Are there any other potential cloud security issues that you should identify?

Assembly assignment

A valid password consists of up to 7 characters and must contain one lowercase letter, at one uppercase letter, and one digit from 0-9. You are a security consultant for company XYZ. Your job is to assess the security of their password protected network. To enter their network, the user must pass the password checker. This is accomplished by calling a function and passing into the function a password string:

int check_password(char *passwd);

check_password returns a 7-digit integer of 0s and 1s to indicate which character was correct (0 to indicate a character was incorrect, 1 to indicate it is correct, and 2 to indicate it was not used). If the password entered is “aB2” and the passwd is “a11”, then check_password returns the integer 2222100. If passwd entered is “ab2”, then check_password returns the integer 2222101.

Your assignment is to write an assembly function “hack_password” that will find the secret password stored in “check_password” by iterating through all possible combinations of a-z, A-Z, and 0-9 according to password rule given above and calling the function check_password to determine when the return value is all 1’s and 2’s (e.g., 2211111, 1111111, 2222111, etc…). Note that the correct password decoder returns indicator that a character was not used as well. hack_password will print out the correct password.

You may write the main driver in C as follow:

int main()

{

hack_password();

return 0;

}

Assignment 1: Deficit Spending

During the Great Recession, like any other economic downturns, as unemployment rises, aggregate income declines causing a major decline in tax collections. On the other hand, with the rise in unemployment, spending on safety net programs rise. So, there are not too many good options available to resort the health of the national economy. It will be very difficult to defend cuts in the federal government programs and especially the programs geared to sustain the minimum of the standard of living for the recent “poor.” So, government needs to increase its borrowing. Deficit spending refers to government spending exceeding what it brings in federal income and corporate taxes during a certain period. Deficit spending hence increases government debt. Most economists accept that deficit spending is desirable and necessary as part of countercyclical fiscal policy. In such a case, government increases its borrowing and hence its deficit to compensate for the shortfall in aggregate demand. This is derived from Keynesian economics, and has been the mainstream economics view. Following John Maynard Keynes, many economists recommend deficit spending to moderate or end a recession, especially a severe one. When the economy has high unemployment, an increase in government purchases creates a market for business output, creating income and encouraging increases in consumer spending, which creates further increases in the demand for business output. (This is the multiplier effect). This raises the real gross domestic product (GDP) and the level of employment and lowers the unemployment rate. Government borrowing under such circumstances increases the demand for borrowing and thus pushes interest rates up. Rising interest rates can “crowd out” (discourage) fixed private investment spending, canceling out some of the demand stimulus arising from the deficit

Write an essay analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of deficit spending and the effects of federal government borrowing on the economy i.e., the “crowding out” effect.

Complete this essay in a Microsoft Word document, and in APA format. Note your submission will automatically be submitted through “TurnItIn” for plagiarism review. Please note that a minimum of 700 words for your essay is required.

Your paper should be structured as follows

1. Cover page with a running head
2. Introduction: What is deficit spending and how does it work.

2.1. Advantages

2.2. Disadvantages

3. Crowding-out Effect
4. Conclusions: Do you believe that deficit spending helps or hinders short-term and long-term economic growth?
5. References