VIU Configuration management Team

You are a member of the Configuration Management Team at VIU that is responsible for the configuration management activities associated with development, testing, operations, monitoring and maintenance of all software. You are also in charge of change management related to the above areas. Your mission is to maintain high quality and availability software operations at VIU.

1) Make an inventory of all the software/hardware systems that you believe should fall within your area of responsibility.

2) Develop a partial list of the CM articles that should be kept in CM repository in order to enable you to achieve your goals.

3) Describe the process by which your team members will collaborate in developing or maintaining the CM articles. The use of a graph to illustrate the process would be good.

4) Can you think of any tools that could help you in your CM activities?

Prepare a report in M.S. Word format answering the questions above. All group members should participate in discussion and preparation of the report. Collaboration is highly encouraged.

Be prepared to discuss your findings in class.

Discuss the need of having a “Time to Live” field in IP packets and how this field is structured in both, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes. (It is recommended that students research this topic using wider reading resources such as other relevant books and research publications to support their discussions) “

BSOP 334 Week 8 Final Exam

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1. (TCO 1) Which of the following functions involves
budgeting, analysis of investment proposals, and provision of funds?

2. (TCO 1) Transformation includes all of the following,
except

3. (TCO 1) Which of the following is providing new
opportunities for productivity improvements?

4. (TCOs 3 & 6) In an effort to reduce inventory, which
of the following interactions with vendors would potentially be helpful?

5. (TCOs 3 & 6) Which of the following costs related to
order size is nonlinear?

6. (TCO 2) Which of the following is a computer-based
information system designed to handle ordering and scheduling of dependent-demand
inventories?

7. (TCO 2) Net material requirements can be described as

8. (TCO 2) When an MRP system is periodically updated to
account for all changes that have occurred within a given time interval, the
process is called

9. (TCOs 4, 5, & 6) How does a net-change system work?

10. (TCOs 4, 5, & 6) The MRP approach that is used for
components or subassemblies to compensate for variations in lead times is
called

11. (TCOs 4, 5, & 6) A lead time service level of 90
percent implies which of the following?

12. (TCOs 5, 7, & 9) The dynamic store of information on
the status of each item by time period (e.g., scheduled receipts, lead time,
lot size), which is an input to the MRP, is the

13. (TCOs 5, 7, & 9) What will be the quantity of the
first planned receipt if net requirements for component J are as follows: 60
units in Week 2, 40 units in Week 3, and 60 units in Week 5? A fixed-period,
two-period lot-sizing method is used.

14. (TCO 11, 12, 13, & 14) Given a product mix,
scheduling difficulties, quality factors, and so on, the maximum expected
output is

15. (TCOs 11, 12, 13, & 14) Given the following
information, calculate the efficiency.
Effective capacity = 50 units per day
Design capacity = 100 units per day
Actual output = 30 units per day
16. (TCOs 10, 15, & 16) In an assignment method problem,
it takes Abe 3 hours to build a birdhouse and 4 hours for a doghouse, while
Betty takes 4 hours for a birdhouse and 3 hours for a doghouse. What is the
reduced cost (in hours) of assigning Abe to build the doghouse?

17. (TCOs 10, 15, & 16) The matrix below shows relative
costs for various job-machine combinations. Which set of pairs constitutes the
minimum cost solution using the assignment method?

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1. (TCO 1) A company has found that introducing one
additional worker enables a process improvement that reduces processing time
for each unit so that output is increased by 25% with less material. Under the
old process, five workers could produce 60 units per hour. Labor costs are
$12/hour, and material input was previously $16/unit. For the new process,
material is now $10/unit. Overhead is charged at 1.6 times direct labor cost.
Finished units sell for $31 each. What increase in productivity is associated with
the process improvement?

2. (TCOs 3 & 6) If instantaneous replenishment is
assumed when given the same demand, setup/ordering costs, and carrying costs,
then the EOQ calculated using incremental replenishment will be _____.
Illustrate using a numeric example.

3. (TCO 2) For the product tree below, how many Cs are
needed if 17 Ps are needed and on-hand inventory consists of 10 As, 15 Bs, 20
Cs, 12 Ms, and 5 Ns? Show your work.

4. (TCOs 4, 5, & 6) Given the tree below, develop a
material requirements plan for end-item P and its components. Assume that all
lead times are one week and that lot-for-lot ordering is used, except for Item
F, which is ordered in multiples of 400 units.

5. (TCOs 5, 7, & 9) Explain the advantages and
disadvantages of frequent deliveries of small shipments.

6. (TCOs 11, 12, 13, & 14) A small business owner is
contemplating the addition of another product line. Capacity increases, and
equipment will result in an increase in annual fixed costs of $50,000. Variable
costs will be $25 per unit. What unit selling price must the owner obtain to
break even on a volume of 2,500 units a year?

7. (TCOs 10, 15,& 16) Compare and contrast kanban and
CONWIP.

8. (TCOs 8 & 9) MPS planners use what is referred to as
time fences? What are they, and why are they used?

Write a well organized essay, a minimum of 700 words (but not limited to), including supporting details from the documents/textbook/other sources in which you analyze and discuss the material that has been assigned by addressing the following question:

Discuss in what ways the United States was an “unfinished nation,” and how the accomplishments of the Civil Rights era completed the process. In your opinion, is the United States currently a “finished nation” or is there still “unfinished business” that needs to be addressed? Reminders Paragraphs in an essay are not numbered. Any questions that are associated with an assigned reading are there to serve as a guide for your discussion. Your discussion should incorporate all of the information from the documents and or textbook, and outside sources as one essay. Students are required to research and incorporate into their discussions additional sources that relate to the content.Recommendations can be found in at the end of textbook chapter in Additional Reading. All statements must be supported and all sources must be identified and cited, and included in your reference list. This also applies to the textbook. Failure to do so constitutes Plagiarism, and the college has strict policies and penalties for failure to comply. Under the Resources tab you will find links to sites that review how to format a paper or essay.  Please use APA style to format your essay. Proofread your work. Make sure that you have looked for all of the spelling and grammatical errors and corrected them, and that you have organized your work into coherent paragraphs. Prepare the assignment as a Word Document, double-spaced and using a standard font of 12 points. Submit it in the Dropbox as an ATTACHMENT. Any work that is submitted directly into the box will be graded as a 0.