Addictions

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Research the SAMHSA.gov website and at least 2 other websites pertaining to addictions.  Websites must be a government or professional (e.g. ACA, APA) organization/ association.  Each student should download, print or order from SAMHSA at least 1 publication useful in current job or future job as a mental health professional.  On February 26 a one page report with following information is due: websites explored, materials ordered, evaluation of website (positives and negatives).  You will upload this assignment to Moodle

Accident Prevention Plan

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 Assignment: You are to complete an accident prevention plan for a company. The Complete list of content/sections to be covered is listed in the contents section below. The company profile, which you need to match to the content/sections, is listed in the company profile section below. The expected finished length of this assignment is from 75 pages.

template has been attached to help you organize your Accident Prevention Plan. 

 Formatting:
Body Text Size: All of the body text in this assignment needs to be set in 12-point size. Please resist the temptation to mix and match point sizes.
Header Text Size: All of the header text in this assignment can be set in 14-point or 16-point size. Please resist the temptation to mix and match point sizes. Pick your text size and use it consistently throughout the assignment.
Double Spacing: For this assignment select all of your text and set it for double spacing. This includes the headers and body of your work.(The exception to the double spacing is the text on the title page.)
Page Margins: Set your pages to one-inch margins. One-inch margins mean one (1) on all sides. The only text that ends up on the outside of the one-inch margin is the page number. 

 Title Page: This page will contain the title, Accident Prevention Plan, . Place the title in the center, right to left and about one-third the way down the page. 

 

Spelling/Grammar Checking: Remember to do your spelling and grammar checking before turning your assignments in. When doing the spelling/grammar checking keep in mind that some words such as mush and must, woods and words, or here and cow, will not be caught by either check. To correct these problems, you will need to proofread your work.
Page Numbers: Any assignment that has more than one page, needs to have page numbers on it. Please place your page numbers on the bottom of the page. In MS Word, use the footer selection and place the page number in the bottom center or bottom right of the page.

Content: (Major Contents/Sections Check-Off List)

___      1. Title Page

___      2. Table of Contents Page

___      3. Divider Pages

___      4. Introduction

                        A. Purpose & Intentions

                        B. Company Presidents Statement

___      5. Management Responsibilities

                        A. Manager Responsibilities                

                        B. Supervisors Responsibilities

___      6. Employee Orientation

                        A. How and When

                        B. Emergency Action Plan

                        C. Emergency Shutdown Procedures

___      7. Injury and Illness Procedures

                        A. Procedures

                        B. Record Keeping

                        C. Supervisor Responsibilities

                        D. Report Form

___      8. Incident/Accident Investigation Procedures

                        A. Procedure Steps

                        B. Worksheet Form

                        C. Incident/Accident Table

___      9. Safety Guidelines

                        A. Guidelines

                        B. Equipment Specific

                        C. Individual Specific

___      10. Safety Disciplinary Policy

___      11. Safety Awareness Program

                        A. Safety Committee

                        B. Safety Meetings

                        C. Safety Training and Forms

                        D. Safety Award Program

___      12. Appendices

                        A. MSDS

                        B. State & Federal Posters

                        C. OSHA Forms and Instructions

Company Profile:

Company Size: 350 employees

Company Product: Custom manufacture of industrial hardened computers (CPU, Keyboards, etc)

Processes at factory include:

            Circuit board assembly

            Circuit board production

            Metal case production

            Plastic forming processes

            Plastic pellet storage and transport to machines

            Shipping/receiving

Specific equipment in factory:

            Air compressor

            Conveyors

            Electric forklift

            Hoists

            Metal punch presses

            Metal bending and cutting machines

            Plastic injection molding machines

            Plastic sheet forming equipment

            Shearing machine for sheet plastic

Safety Promotion Budget: $8,000 annually 

CIS 518 Discussion Responses To Student

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CIS 518 Discussion 1 post responses.

Respond to the colleagues posts regarding:

“Software Certification Test” Please respond to the following:

From the first e-Activity, describe two types of software testing, identify when they are applied, and explain their corresponding standards.

As a software engineer in a software development company, explain how you would apply testing standards when testing your development projects.

LGs post states the following:

“Software Certification Test” Please respond to the following: 

From the first e-Activity, describe two types of software testing, identify when they are applied, and explain their corresponding standards.

One type of software testing is acceptance testing.   Acceptance testing is the determination if the system is acceptable for use.  The acceptance testing evaluates the system functionality and uses with the business requirements and, , after completion, determines if they feel the system is acceptable for delivery.  The testing is focused on real-case situations that would transpire in the business and how the business would utilize the system in daily settings.  There are different accepting testing, including benchmark, pilot, alpha, beta, and parallel.  

Benchmarking:  Performs loading testing of a component or entire end-to-end system; repeatable while performance measures between the hard/software

Pilot:   Verifies a component of the system or entire system under real-time operation. It is completed between the time the user (customers) accepting testing and production. 

Alpha:   Initial testing usually conducted in a controlled environment, such as in a lab with internal customers.  This testing is performed in the early stages of the development or at the end of the development but before the beta testing.

Beta:   This type of testing is performed by real customers (users) of the system in a business (real) environment.  The testing is performed; the system is presented to the customers for use. 

Parallel:   Is perform in the combination of multiple applications concurrently.  The objective of the is to test the functional characteristics of the application

The ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 is the standard for software testing that follows the system development life cycle (SDLC) for software development.  

Phleeger, S. L., Atlee, J. M.  (2009-02-01). Software Engineering: Theory and Practice,  4th Edition [VitalSource Bookshelf version].  Retrieved from vbk://9781323089309 

What is Acceptance Testing? (2019, September 24). Retrieved from https://www.agilealliance.org/glossary/acceptance/#q=~(infinite~false~filters~(postType~(~’page~’post~’aa_book~’aa_event_session~’aa_experience_report~’aa_glossary~’aa_research_paper~’aa_video)~tags~(~’acceptance*20test))~searchTerm~’~sort~false~sortDirection~’asc~page~1)

As a software engineer in a software development company, explain how you would apply testing standards when testing your development projects.

A s/w engineer would apply the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 by performing a series of steps;

1.Basic functionality Testing:  Benchmarking

2.Code Review Testing:  Alpha

3.Code Analysis Testing: Beta

4.Unit Testing: Pilot

5.Single-User Testing: Parallel

CIS 518 Discussion 2 post responses.

Respond to the colleagues posts regarding:

“User Documentation” Please respond to the following:

From the second e-Activity, discuss the readability and usefulness of the online user manual that you have researched. Identify its strengths and weaknesses, and areas where it could be improved.

From the second e-Activity, describe how you would modify the documentation to improve the user s ability to interpret failure messages and look up topics in the documentation if that user had little or no experience with computers and software.

 

 

LGs post states the following:

“User Documentation” Please respond to the following: 

From the second e-Activity, discuss the readability and usefulness of the online user manual that you have researched. Identify its strengths and weaknesses, and areas where it could be improved.

 

Readability is important because its how the online user manual would be used to communicate the information to the user.  Online user manuals need to be content that a user can access to help convey information on how to use the system, ability to troubleshoot issues or provide helpful information for a particular function the user is attempting to perform.  The readability measures how easy the content is to read.   The intent of the user manual is to give assistance to the user on the system that is more self-service instead of a technical expert.

 

Online user manuals are cost-effective to develop because it’s developed in full once and then its easily updated by pages or sections and swapping out the old with the new.  The other aspect s it doesn’t require one person to develop as individuals can be designated to update section(s) accordingly following a content management structure for the guide. Ultimately the online user manual provides answers about the product and its functionality allowing the user to self-manage and acquires the answers to the information they want when they want it.  Although online user manuals provide many benefits, there are do disadvantages.  Examples of disadvantages include searching for techniques.  Most online user manuals allow us to search for a keyword or term but not necessarily a concept.  For example, a user may be an attempt to execute a particular capability within the system but may not know the term its called.  They may encounter issues trying to find through the search index. Another issue may be the online user manual may have screenshots or a video of how to execute the function, but the quality of the video is of poor quality or not very clear or screenshots are not displaying the latest version so its confusion to the user.  

 

Ways to improve these areas is to ensure that after each new releases there is an update to the online user manual accordingly.  Another way to improve is follow standards such as content management standards, style sheets or web/video standards so there is some uniformity.  Also dating and versioning will help the user to know when the information was last updates and which version of the system is the content is referring to. 

 

Bhatia, S. (2019, December 18). How Online Manuals Can Cut Costs and Improve Support. Retrieved from https://itchronicles.com/itsm/online-user-manuals/

Levinson, M. (n.d.). Web Help: Pros and Cons. Retrieved from https://clickhelp.com/clickhelp-technical-writing-blog/web-help-cons-and-pros/

McCoy, J., Smith, V., Mcghee, R., & Kristel. (2016, August 26). The Web Content Writer’s Guide to FleschKincaid Readability. Retrieved from https://expresswriters.com/guide-on-flesch-kincaid-readability/

From the second e-Activity, describe how you would modify the documentation to improve the user s ability to interpret failure messages and look up topics in the documentation if that user had little or no experience with computers and software.

Ways online user manuals can be improve include:

Transition text content, where applicable, to visuals, including screenshots (displaying the date updated and version of the software), flowcharts to demonstrate steps)

Content should be written for a broad audience, hence the readability, i.e., 60+ score (most people with eighth-grade education) should focus on scoring that meets the masses, in plain language and have simplicity where possible

The content should focus on the problem and not having the user have to go to other sections

Searchable (keyword, terms and content)

Accessible (meaning 508 compliant, i.e., caption, color-blindness, browser-friendly)

Link to further resources i.e., web, online chat, blogs, forum, or contact (email/phone) where needed.

 

 

CIS 515 Discussion Response To Student

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CIS 515 Discussion post responses.

Respond to the colleagues posts regarding:

Having an adequate data model to serve specific business needs of an organization is important. Evaluate the need for denormalization within an organization. Provide at least three examples that prove denormalization is useful to data consumers.

Using a data-modeling checklist can help database developers design efficient data repositories. Suggest at least two possible scenarios that could take place if one of the steps in the data-modeling checklist (table 6.7 in Chapter 6 of the textbook) is missed.

JMs post states the following:

Denormalization is a technique used on a previously-managed database to enhance performance. The concept behind the process is to arrange redundant data where technicians think it will be of assistance the most (Bendel, et al., 2015). The process utilizes additional characteristics in an already-designed table, add extra tables, or even develop conditions of prevailing tables. The goal overall is to reduce the running time of select queries by allowing accessibility of information (Bendel, et al., 2015). Demoralization is useful for data consumers in different ways. Firstly, it maintains history; as data can transform and fluctuate with time, the storage of values that were valid before is important enough. Secondly, the query performance improves; at times, multiple tables and variables may be required to support information needed (Bendel, et al., 2015). Thirdly, it speeds up reporting.

If one of the steps in the data-modeling checklist is missed, the first possible scenario will be a confused state of mind; the professional carrying out the data analysis will become unsure and uncertain about the results, especially if the data tables are incorrect. The second scenario may involve inaccurate derivation of data queries and patterns (Bendel, et al., 2015). If any of the steps from the checklist is missed, the analyst is not going to be able to streamline the information in a suitable manner. Since the process is initiated with the efficient use of analytical resources, any mismanagement of the steps can imbalance the end goal. As the tables are formed in a sequential manner, their data entry and calculation procedures will ultimately be affected resulting in ineffective and wrongful results. Suitable planning can also improvise performance mechanisms for the data modeling.

References

Bendel, P., Czech, M., Koeth, O. C., & Stolze, K. (2015). U.S. Patent No. 9,020,910. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

RRs post states the following:

I would choose the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) for a Small Office/Home Office (SOHO). RIP is a protocol that routers can use to exchange network topology information. It is characterized as an interior gateway protocol, and is typically used in small to medium-sized networks (What is a, n.d.). RIP is also easy to configure and use, and is well known and widely used.

If I had to work in a company, I would choose the Open Shortest Path First protocol (OSPF) as my preferred protocol. Mainly because the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) designed OSPF to be a scalable, efficient, and quickly converging routing protocol. Overall, the protocol helps ease the pain of network administration and troubleshooting (Heaton, 2000).

A transmission medium is a physical path between the transmitter and the receiver. In other words, it is the channel through which data is sent from one place to another. I would use the Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) if I were a large company that had multiple campuses.  STP is used in fast-data-rate Ethernet and in voice and data channels of telephone lines. Advantages include better performance at a higher data rate, eliminates crosstalk, and is comparatively faster than other mediums (Type of Transmission, n.d.).

References:

What is a Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and how does it work with my managed switch? (n.d.). Retrieved from https://kb.netgear.com/21661/What-is-a-Routing-Information-Protocol-RIP-and-how-does-it-work-with-my-managed-switch

Heaton, W. (2000). Get IT Done: OSPF boasts enterprise benefits. Retrieved from https://www.techrepublic.com/article/get-it-done-ospf-boasts-enterprise-benefits/

Type of Transmission Media. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/types-transmission-media/