What do you think is the single greatest physical threat to information systems? fire? hurricanes? sabotage? terrorism? others? be prepared to support your answers.

Determine which of the four levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio) is most appropriate for the data below. internet speed levels of "fast comma " "medium comma " and "slow" choose the correct answer below. a. the ordinal level of measurement is most appropriate because the data can be ordered comma but differences left parenthesis obtained by subtraction right parenthesis cannot be found or are meaningless. nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing b. the interval level of measurement is most appropriate because the data can be ordered comma differences left parenthesis obtained by subtraction right parenthesis can be found and are meaningful comma and there is no natural starting point. c. the nominal level of measurement is most appropriate because the data cannot be ordered. nothing d. the ratio level of measurement is most appropriate because the data can be ordered comma differences left parenthesis obtained by subtraction right parenthesis can be found and are meaningful comma and there is a natural starting point.

3. ranga ramasesh is the operations manager for a firm that is trying to decide which one of four countries it should research for possible outsourcing providers. the first step is to select a country based on cultural risk factors, which are critical to eventual business success with the provider. ranga has reviewed outsourcing provider directories and found that the four countries in the table that follows have an ample number of providers from which they can choose. to aid in the country selection step, he has enlisted the aid of a cultural expert, john wang, who has provided ratings of the various criteria in the table. the resulting ratings are on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is a low risk and 10 is a high risk. john has also determined six criteria weightins: trust, with a weight of 0.3; quality, with 0.2; religious, with 0.1; individualism, with 0.2; time, with 0.1; and uncertainity, with 0.1. using the factor-rating method, which country should ranga select? why? (2 points)

Use a while-end loop in a script file to calculate the sum of the first n terms of the series: summation sign on the top n bottom k=1 : )^k * k^2 +5k)/3^k show the script file and the two results of n = 10 and n = 20.