This document outlines the assignments, discussions, tutorials, and other course materials for CIS 500. It includes: - 10 weekly assignments on topics like data analytics, cybersecurity, mobile technologies, and an IT strategic plan. - 10 weekly discussions on related topics to the assignments. - Tutorials and additional resources for each topic through the course website. The course appears to cover a wide range of information technology topics and their application in business through both individual and group assignments. Students will develop an understanding of IT management, strategies, and how technologies impact and enable organizations.

1. CIS 500 All Assignments
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CIS 500 Week 2 Assignment 1 The New Frontier Data Analytics
CIS 500 Week 4 Assignment 2 Harnessing Information Management,
the Data, and Infrastructure
CIS 500 Week 6 Case Study 1 Cyber Security in Business
Organizations
CIS 500 Week 8 Case Study 2 Wireless and Mobile Technologies
CIS 500 Week 10 Term Paper Information Technology Strategic Plan
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CIS 500 Week 1 Discussion Top Management
Concerns
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CIS 500 Week 1 Discussion, "Top Management Concerns" Please
respond to the following: According to the text, the authors asserted
that business productivity and cost reduction were the top concerns by a
wide margin among the top five (5) management concerns. Give your

2. opinion on whether or not you agree with this assertion. Justify your
response. Review Figure 1.6 “Top 5 management concerns and 5 most
influential ITs”, located in Chapter 1 of the text. Select one (1) out of the
top five (5) management concerns that you believe is the most
important. Then, select one (1) out of the five (5) most influential ITs
that you believe would support the top management concern that you
previously selected. Next, analyze whether or not changing your
management concern would impact the IT that you chose. Justify your
response.
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CIS 500 Week 1-10 All DQs
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CIS 500 Week 1 Discussion Top Management Concerns
CIS 500 Week 2 Discussion Information Management
CIS 500 Week 3 Discussion Data Warehouses and Network
Infrastructure
CIS 500 Week 4 Discussion Cybersecurity
CIS 500 Week 5 Discussion e-Business and e-Commerce
CIS 500 Week 6 Discussion Mobile and Wireless
CIS 500 Week 7 Discussion Fraud and Risk Factors and Enterprise
Systems

3. CIS 500 Week 8 Discussion Visualization Technologies
CIS 500 Week 9 Discussion Project Management and SDLC
CIS 500 Week 10 Discussion IT Ethics and Responsible Conduct
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CIS 500 Week 2 Assignment 1 The New Frontier Data
Analytics (2 Papers)
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Assignment 1: The New Frontier: Data Analytics Due Week 2 and worth
120 points In this highly competitive business environment, businesses
are constantly seeking ways to gain traction and understand what is on
the minds of current customers and potential customers in order to
increase business efficiency. Many companies have turned to business
intelligence (BI) and data analytics. Use the Internet or Strayer Library
to research articles on data analytics. Select one (1) industry or one (1)
company that is currently using data analytics. Use the industry /
company you have selected as the basis for your written paper. Write a
four to six (4-6) page paper in which you: Define data analytics in
general and provide a brief overview of the evolution of utilizing data
analytics in business. Analyze the main advantages and disadvantages of
using data analytics within the industry or company that you have
chosen. Determine the fundamental obstacles or challenges that business
management in general must overcome in order to implement data

4. analytics. Next, suggest a strategy that business management could use
to overcome the obstacles or challenges in question. Provide a rationale
for your response. Analyze the overall manner in which data analytics
transformed the industry or company you selected with regard to
customer responsiveness and satisfaction. Speculate on the trend of
using data analytics for the chosen industry or company in the next ten
(10) years. Next, determine at least one (1) additional type of data that
one could collect by using data analytics. Provide a rationale for your
response. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and
other Websites do not qualify as academic 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.
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CIS 500 Week 2 Discussion Information Management
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CIS 500 Week 2 Discussion, "Information Management" Please
respond to the following: According to the textbook, “at no time will a
specific target architecture ever be achieved”. State the main reasons

5. why the authors make this assertion and decide whether or not you agree
with this assertion. Justify your response.According to the textbook,
information management is among the most critical functions of
business success. Evaluate the level of impact of IT / enterprise
architecture on information management (e.g., the flow of information
throughout the company / organization, etc.) within a company or
industry of your choice. Next, determine at least one (1) obstacle or
challenge that the IT organizational leader would face in order to support
organizational information within the company or organization that you
have chosen.
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CIS 500 Week 3 Discussion Data Warehouses and
Network Infrastructure
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CIS 500 Week 3 Discussion, "Data Warehouses and Network
Infrastructure" Please respond to the following: Imagine that you are
an IT organizational leader in a mid-sized company. Comprise a
justifiable argument for the use of data warehouses, data centers, and
data marts in order to support for business intelligence (BI) within the
organizational structure. Ascertain the need for a robust network
infrastructure to support strategic initiatives related to BI within an
organization of your choice. Moreover, analyze the main reasons why
the network is the key to data needs throughout the organization.

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CIS 500 Week 4 Assignment 2 Harnessing
Information Management, the Data, and
Infrastructure (2 Papers)
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Harnessing Information Management, the Data, and Infrastructure In
Assignment 1, you investigated data analytics and the utilization of data
analytics in business. In this assignment, use the company or industry
that you selected in Assignment 1. Use the Internet or Strayer Library to
explore the relationship between information management and data
storage techniques. Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you: 1.
Ascertain the importance of information management for the company
or industry that you have chosen. 2. Analyze the fundamental impact of
IT architecture or enterprise architecture on information management for
your chosen company or industry. Determine if IT architecture impacts
the effectiveness or efficiency of information management and vice
versa. 3. Suggest at least two (2) data storage methods regarding
database, data warehouse, and / or date mart for your chosen company or
industry. Provide a rationale for your response. 4. Determine the optimal
data storage method between the methods that you suggested in
Question 3. Provide a rationale for your response Use at least three (3)
quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as
academic resources.

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CIS 500 Week 4 Discussion Cybersecurity
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CIS 500 Week 4 Discussion "Cybersecurity" Please respond to the
following: Analyze the connection between corporate governance and
a company’s cybersecurity posture. Provide at least three (3) points to
justify whether or not there is an impactful relationship between
corporate governance and a company’s cybersecurity posture. Analyze
the overall manner in which poor cybersecurity policy can disrupt
business continuity. Provide at least two (2) examples of such disruption
to support your response.
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CIS 500 Week 5 Discussion e-Business and e-
Commerce
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CIS 500 Week 5 Discussion, "e-Business and e-Commerce" Please
respond to the following: Determine the fundamental business
advantages and disadvantages of e-business and e-commerce across the

8. business organization. Next, select one (1) out of the five (5) key
challenges faced by online retail businesses in the business-to-consumer
(B2C) marketplace and suggest one (1) strategy to mitigate the challenge
in question. Specify the key ethical issues related to e-Business and e-
Commerce. Next, propose at least two (2) ethical and legal
considerations that the management must consider in order to establish
organizational policy regarding e-Business and e-Commerce within
organization. Provide a rationale for your response.
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CIS 500 Week 6 Case Study 1 Cyber Security in
Business Organizations (2 Papers)
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Study 1: Cyber Security in Business Organizations Protecting
organizational assets and information within the company has become a
top priority for many organizational leaders. Review the article titled
“Missed Alarms and 40 Million Stolen Credit Card Numbers: How
Target Blew It”,located here. Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in
which you: Determine the fundamental challenges that organizations
face in general in regard to protecting organizational assets and
information. Specify the red flag(s) that Target overlooked or ignored
before the retail attack and give your opinion as to why Target
overlooked or ignored the red flag(s). Determine the main actions that
Target took after the breach occurred and evaluate the efficiency of such

9. actions. Conclude the main reasons why the attack on Target occurred.
Give your opinion as to whether or not the attack was mainly due to the
poor infrastructure or the inability of management to act accordingly.
Justify your response. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note:
Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic 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.
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CIS 500 Week 6 Discussion Mobile and Wireless
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CIS 500 Week 6 Discussion, "Mobile and Wireless" Please respond to
the following: Decide whether or not mobile computing and wireless
computing are synonymous. Provide at least two (2) reasons to support
your assertion and justify your response. Give your opinion on whether
or not mobile and wireless devices have contributed to the rise in social
media activity. Next, determine at least two (2) ways that business
organizations use mobile technologies to become more efficient,
productive, and profitable. Support your response.

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CIS 500 Week 7 Discussion Fraud and Risk Factors
and Enterprise Systems
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CIS 500 Week 7 Discussion, "Fraud and Risk Factors and Enterprise
Systems" Please respond to the following: Review the Fraud Risk
Factors on page 288 of the textbook. Choose one (1) factor which you
believe is the most important. Justify your response. Next, choose one
(1) factor and determine two (2) policies that a company could put in
place in order to counter the risk factor in question. Review the types of
enterprise systems on page 305 of the textbook. Next, imagine that you
are an IT organizational leader in a mid-sized company, and determine
the type of enterprise system that your company would choose for an
initial implementation if your company were to move away from legacy
systems. Provide a rationale for your response.
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CIS 500 Week 8 Case Study 2 Wireless and Mobile
Technologies (2 Papers)
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Study 2: Wireless and Mobile Technologies In this very competitive
climate, many companies are seeking ways to connect with customers in
ways that add value. Mobile and wireless computing have become key
focal points to attract and retain customers. Review this Article titled
“Delta Named Top Tech-Friendly U.S. Airline”, located here.
http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=20295&item=123856 Use Internet or
Strayer Library to search articles on wireless and mobile technologies as
well as the application in business. Select one (1) company other than
Delta which uses mobile and wireless technology. Write a four to six (4-
6) page paper in which you: Define wireless technologies and mobile
technologies. Next, determine at least three (3) ways which companies
or organizations utilize such technologies to improve business
efficiency. Determine the wireless technologies and mobile technologies
that Delta has implemented. Next, evaluate the level of efficiency of the
technology implementation. Provide a rationale for your response.
Specify the overall manner in which the company that you selected from
your research implements organizational systems, wireless technologies,
and mobile technologies. Next, evaluate the level of efficiency of such
implementation within the selected company. Provide rationale for your
response. Give your opinion as to which company (i.e., Delta or the
selected company from your research) is using the mobile and wireless
technologies more strategically. Justify your response. Determine the
operational and enterprise systems that support wireless and mobile
technologies for each company. Provide a rationale for your response.
Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other
Websites do not qualify as academic 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;

12. 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.
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CIS 500 Week 8 DiscussionVisualizationTechnologies
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CIS 500 Week 8 Discussion, "Visualization Technologies" Please
respond to the following: Determine the main reasons why
visualization technologies are becoming an important part of
organizational success. Select two (2) such technologies related to
information systems and analyze the manner in which the utilization of
the selected technologies could help the organization stay efficient.
Include at least one (1) example of such utilization to support your
response. Assume that you are the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for
a mid-sized company. Speculate on the overall manner in which you
would use mobile visualization technology to aid your risk management
activities. Provide a rationale for your response.
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CIS 500 Week 9 Discussion Project Management and
SDLC

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CIS 500 Week 9 Discussion, "Project Management and SDLC" ,
"Project Management and SDLC" Please respond to the following:
Read the article titled “IT Project Failure Rates: Facts and Reasons”,
located in the online course shell. to view the article. Next, propose three
(3) critical areas or phases that the IT project manager must pay
attention to in order to have a successful project completion. Support
your response. Per the textbook, the System Development Life Cycle
(SDLC) is a development methodology that organizations use for large
IT projects. Review Figure 13.11 “An eight-stage system development
life cycle (SDLC)”, located on page 409 of the textbook and select one
(1) stage which you feel is most important for the success of the project.
Provide a rationale for your response.
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CIS 500 Week 10 Discussion IT Ethics and
Responsible Conduct
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CIS 500 Week 10 Discussion, "IT Ethics and Responsible Conduct"
Specify the main reasons why

14. green computing should be part of any organization's social
responsibility posture. Next, propose three (3) actions that IT
organizations could take to reduce their carbon footprint. Provide a
Smartphones, PDAs, and software
such as Microsoft Office Communicator now have the function to
provide presence and location information (e.g. online, in a meeting,
busy, idle, etc.) of the users. Decide whether or not the broadcasting of
presence and location information of the users is a valid concern in
terms of security, people's movements, tracking of employees, and other
privacy issues. Provide a rationale for your response.
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CIS 500 Week 10 Term Paper Information
Technology Strategic Plan (2 Papers)
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Paper: Information Technology Strategic Plan Imagine that a company
has recently hired you as a senior business consultant. The company is
seeking to gain better traction with regard to customer satisfaction and
loyalty. The company hired you because of your expertise with mobile
apps, social media, and cloud technology. The management of the
company feels that yearly revenues could top $20 million per year with
the infusion of current technology. Currently the company has revenue
of $5 million per year. Note: You may create and / or make all necessary
assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment. Write an

15. eight to ten (8-10) page paper in which you: Write an introductory
statement of the company including but not limited to the type of the
company, the location, the industry in which it competes, and the
organizational vision and mission that encompasses the nature of the
company. Specify the current situation of the company with regard to its
technology and security aspects. Determine at least five (5) information
technology personnel / roles that would be in place in order to start the
business venture of gaining better traction of customer satisfaction and
loyalty. Justify your response. Conduct a strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis for the business venture in
question for the company. Justify your response. Develop at least five
(5) major goals for the information technology strategic plan. Justify
your response. Speculate on three (3) positive organizational impacts of
implementing the strategic plan. Justify your response. Use at least three
(3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not
qualify as academic 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.
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