Define and describe business continuity.

PART1:

Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.

The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 10-13 (Jamsa, 2013).

Chapter 10 topics:

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• Define and describe business continuity.
• Define and describe disaster recovery.
• Discuss pros and cons of cloud-based backup operations.
• Discuss threats to an IT data center infrastructure and provide cloud-based solutions to mitigate the risks.
• Create a DRP for a company with which you are familiar.

Chapter 11 topics:

• Define software architecture.
• Define and describe SOA.
• Compare and contrast a web page and a web service.
• Search the Web for companies that offer web services and then describe three to five web services that programmers might integrate into the applications they create.
• Discuss what it means for a web service to be interoperable.

Chapter 12 topics:

• Discuss key items that should be included in an SLA.
• Define predictive analytics and discuss how an IT manager might use such analytics.
• Discuss how an IT manager might use load testing on a site.
• Define and discuss vendor lock-in and identify steps a company should take to mitigate this risk.
• With respect to cloud-based solutions, list and discuss 5 to 10 operations or tasks an IT manager should oversee.

Chapter 13 topics:

• List and describe common system requirements one should consider before moving an application to the cloud.
• Discuss why a company should consider using a consultant to oversee a cloud migration and list specific skills you would expect the consultant to have.
• List and discuss resource utilization characteristics one should monitor for an application prior to moving the application to the cloud.
• List possible training requirements for an SaaS solution integration, a PaaS application migration, and an IaaS application migration.
• List and describe budget considerations one should evaluate before moving an application to the cloud.
• List and describe IT governance considerations one should evaluate before moving an application to the cloud.
• Define and describe cloud bursting.

PART2

Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.

The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 14 & 15 (Jamsa, 2013).

Chapter 14 topics:

• Define and describe the mobile web.
• Describe the different generations of cell phones.
• Describe how smartphones differ from ordinary cell phones.
• Select a mobile or traditional website that interests you. Describe the site in terms of the ecosystem that makes up the site’s user experience.
• Describe how web pages differ from apps and how apps differ from widgets.
• Discuss why developers say that HTML5 will drive mobile solutions.
• Describe some development best practices for designing solutions for the mobile cloud.

Chapter 15 topics:

• Define corporate governance.
• Discuss the events that led up to the need for increased corporate governance.
• Define business strategy. List five possible business strategies.
• Discuss the purpose of the Capability Maturity Model.
• Define auditing.
• Define internal control and provide an example of a control.
• Discuss the role Sarbanes/Oxley has played with respect to corporate governance.
• Define IT governance.
• List factors one should consider with respect to governing the cloud.
• Need 200 words answer for Part1 question and Part2 all discussion questions200 words, total : 400 words. No plagiarism and no copy and paste sentence directly from any website. if using online source then should Rephrase the sentence and cite them according to APA format (version 7) and mention the reference at end of document. Need 2 word documents for Part1 and 2. Need APA text citation and reference at bottom for both parts.