Final Project Plan

During this course, you have developed multiple plans and recommendations for your client, Sunshine Health Corporation. It is now time to present the final plan as your contract has been completed through this first phase. Please review your previous work including that of last week with your Network Security Plan and make revisions and modifications as necessary based on our discussions and research up to this point. This is a plan that would be submitted to your customer for their review and their records of the work that you have been contacted to do. It is important that is clear and concise and easily referenced. The project should include at a minimum:

• Overview of the contract (up to 1 page, more than a paragraph)
• Table of contents
• Executive summary (up to 1 page, more than a paragraph)
• Review of the individual projects. Each project should be a separate section (including those that were discussions).
• Review and recommendations.
• Reference page. Instead of references listed per project, develop a single section with all references and resources utilized throughout the project, using APA format.

The assignment should be 8-10 pages of content not counting title page, reference page, or appendices (diagrams, budget sheet, equipment list, etc.). Please follow APA format. This report is a representation of your business. How do you want your business seen and remembered?

Submit your work as one attachment.

Read the following case study on IT sourcing from The Journal of Information Technology (2007): Crafting and Executing an Offshore IT Sourcing Strategy: GlobShop’s Experience. Summarize the case and answer the following questions: What were the factors that led to GlobShop’s decision to offshore significant portions of its IT infrastructure to India? How well did GlobShop manage the change process after making the decision to offshore? Was the decision to offshore successful? Defend your answers.

1. For a binary classification, describe the possible values of entropy. On what conditions does entropy reach its minimum and maximum values?

2. In a decision tree, how does the algorithm pick the attributes for splitting?

3. John went to see the doctor about a severe headache. The doctor selected John at random to have a blood test for swine flu, which is suspected to affect 1 in 5,000 people in this country. The test is 99% accurate, in the sense that the probability of a false positive is 1%. The probability of a false negative is zero. John’s test came back positive. What is the probability that John has swine flu?

4. Which classifier is considered computationally efficient for high-dimensional problems? Why?

5. A data science team is working on a classification problem in which the dataset contains many correlated variables, and most of them are categorical variables. Which classifier should the team consider using? Why?

6. A data science team is working on a classification problem in which the dataset contains many correlated variables, and most of them are continuous. The team wants the model to output the probabilities in addition to the class labels. Which classifier should the team consider using? Why?

7. Why use autocorrelation instead of autocovariance when examining stationary time series?

8. Provide an example that if the cov(X, Y) = 0, the two random variables, X and Y, are not necessarily independent.

Question 1: [15 Marks]

List and explain the activities of the Project planning phase.

Question 2: [12 Marks]

What are the six Activities of the Analysis phase? Write briefly on each.

Question 3: [15 Marks]

Describe the purpose of each phase of the SDLC.

Question 4: [15 Marks]

Explain the differences between a PERT chart and a GANTT chart with the use of examples.

Question 5: [13 Marks]

List 5 or 6 possible sources of tangible benefits from the installation of a new system.

Question 6: [10 Marks]

Describe the 8 knowledge areas of Project Management.

Question 7 [20 marks]

:What are the activities in the Planning phase that are specifically focused

towards Project Management?

Modify your handling of the quantity of items to include the following:

• Only values in the range 1–99 are accepted. Illegal or out-of-range values cause a reprompt for a valid input. Up to 3 such requests for valid input are made, and the program terminates if a valid numeric in-range quantity is not entered by the customer. Exception handling is used to accomplish this.
• You should bundle all of this as a new method, such as getNumericInput( ), and then use a call to this new method in place of your existing quantity request code. 
• Modify your code that validates string input (like returning customer, color, crust, etc.) so that only correct responses are accepted. 
• Check for yes or no, regular or deep dish, and so forth.     
• Modify your display of the cost of the product so that it appears properly formatted with a dollar sign and exactly two digits to the right of the decimal point.     
• Add a phone number to the collection of customer or product attributes. The phone number must be entered in the form (###) #######, where “#” is any digit (0-9) and the parentheses and hyphen are required. 
• The space after the closed parentheses may or may not be present. You must create a method that handles the input and the validation of the phone number. You should use the Java java.util.regex.* pattern matching capabilities to validate the phone number.     
• A file (named “order.txt”) must be written that contains each of the above data items that constitute an order. The items must be written on separate lines in the file. No other information may be written to the file. You must be able to view the file using Notepad to verify that the information that it contains is complete and correct.     
• The order file only should be written if there are no validation errors whatsoever.    
•  You should create a method (named “writeOrderFile( )”) that handles file output.     

Create a confirmation method that reads the data values from the order file into separate variables. It then should create and display a confirmation that shows the values that were read. Each value should be identified using an appropriate label. Consider the following example: 

• Thank you for your order.
  Name: Joe Blow
  Returning customer: Yes
  Color: blue
  Phone: (123) 456-7890
  Quantity: 3
  Etc: etc.

  Note: You must use this confirmation method in place of your existing code that creates the confirmation display.