Describe and develop maintenance methods and processes and procedures through the use of networking tools, resources, and techniques.

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XYZ Company is a very large retail chain in the Midwest United States. This company operates with a single corporate campus location and 25 regional distribution centers that support 3,000 retail locations. XYZ Company recently deployed a new switching environment using Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) and Spanning Tree technology. The new switching environment includes redundant connections between each switch and includes the HR and Finance VLANs as shown below. Devices plugged into the HR VLAN on any switch require access to the HR VLANs across all switches. Devices plugged into the Finance VLAN require access to the Finance VLANs across all switches.

There have been multiple problems reported with the VLAN and Spanning Tree switching environment.
 
The new switching environment has exhibited the following problems:
Switch 1 HR VLAN communication cannot take place with Switch 2 HR VLAN
Switch 2 Finance VLAN cannot communicate with Switch 4 Finance VLAN
Switch 4 has both trunk ports to switch 3 continuously going from blocking to forwarding
Root bridge election is occurring every minute
           
You were brought in based on your troubleshooting knowledge to address the issues.
 
Write a two to four (2-4) page paper in which you:
Decide the troubleshooting methodology that you would use for each issue. Provide a rationale to support your response.
Provide the main steps that you would use to troubleshoot each of these issues and determine the tools that you would require to complete your troubleshooting. Provide a rationale to support your response.
Speculate on the main cause(s) of each of the (4) four problems. Provide a rationale to support your response.
Use at least two (2) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
 
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
Describe and develop maintenance methods and processes and procedures through the use of networking tools, resources, and techniques.
Summarize and develop troubleshooting processes for enterprise networks.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in internetworking troubleshooting.
Write clearly and concisely about internetworking troubleshooting using proper writing mechanics.
 
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using this rubric.

Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.

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Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.

In your journal, you will reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. The journal should address a variable combination of the following, depending on your specific practice immersion clinical experiences:

  1. New practice approaches
  2. Intraprofessional collaboration
  3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
  4. Ethical considerations in health care
  5. Population health concerns
  6. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
  7. Health policy
  8. Leadership and economic models
  9. Health disparities

Students will outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Explain how organizational structure affects organizational behavior

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This assignment will help you research and understand what impact organizational structure and communication have on organizational behavior within an organization. As you complete this assignment, consider experiences you have had with organizational structure and communication.
Write a 350- to 700-word paper in which you: 

  • Explain how organizational structure affects organizational behavior.
  • Identify how effective and ineffective application of structure impacts organizational behavior.
  • Discuss how organizational communications can be used to support organizational behavior.
  • Include effective and ineffective communication methods.

Cite 2 reputable references used to complete your chart. Reputable references include trade or industry publications; government or agency websites; scholarly works; your textbook, Organizational Behavior, Theory, and Design in Health Care (2nd ed.); or other sources of similar quality.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.

In this assignment, students will pull together the change proposal project components they have been working on throughout the course to create a proposal inclusive of sections for each content focus area in the course.

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In this assignment, students will pull together the change proposal project components they have been working on throughout the course to create a proposal inclusive of sections for each content focus area in the course. At the conclusion of this project, the student will be able to apply evidence-based research steps and processes required as the foundation to address a clinically oriented problem or issue in future practice.
Students will develop a 1,250-1,500 word paper that includes the following information as it applies to the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need profiled in the capstone change proposal:

  1. Background
  2. Problem statement
  3. Purpose of the change proposal
  4. PICOT
  5. Literature search strategy employed
  6. Evaluation of the literature
  7. Applicable change or nursing theory utilized
  8. Proposed implementation plan with outcome measures
  9. Identification of potential barriers to plan implementation, and a discussion of how these could be overcome
  10. Appendix section, if tables, graphs, surveys, educational materials, etc. are created

Review the feedback from your instructor on the Topic 3 assignment, PICOT Statement Paper, and Topic 6 assignment, Literature Review. Use the feedback to make appropriate revisions to the portfolio components before submitting.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Attached are instructions to help complete the assignment. You can complete by  friday.