1. What might be causing the slow response time? Prepare a brief memo explaining system performance and workload measurement, using nontechnical language that Personal Trainer users can understand easily. 2. What could be causing the network slowdowns at Personal Trainer? If a problem does exist, which performance and workload measures would you monitor to pinpoint the problem? 3. You decide to prepare a security checklist for Personal Trainer. Prepare a list of security issues that the firm should evaluate and monitor. Be sure to organize the items into categories that match the six security levels.

Jaina and tomas are being considered as new tenants in an apartment. the landlord looks at their creditworthiness because he wants to be sure his new tenant pays the rent on time and in full. the table below summarizes the information that was on their applications. application information questions jaina tomas how many years have you had your job? 5 2 what is your monthly salary? $1,850 $2,500 how many credit cards do you have? 4 1 how much debt do you have? $13,000 $7,000 how many times were you late with payments on credit cards in the past year? 5 1 who will the landlord decide to be more creditworthy and why? tomas because the ratio of his debt to income is less. jaina because she has had her job longer, which makes her look more stable. jaina because she has more credit cards available to her. tomas because he makes more money per month.

Anewly established internet company with 40 employees needs your advice. they are looking for a collaboration tool and have narrowed their choices to gotomeeting, webex, and my web conferences. after reading the information presented in this chapter and other sources, prepare a two- page document ( double spaced) that includes two advantages and two disadvantages of each tool. which one is your final recommendation? why did you choose that tool over the other two?

Acommon algorithm for converting a decimal number to binary is to repeatedly divide the decimal number by 2 and save the remainder. this division is continued until the result is zero. then, each of the remainders that have been saved are used to construct the binary number. write a recursive java method that implements this algorithm. it will accept a value of int and return a string with the appropriate binary character representation of the decimal number. my code: public class lab16{public string converttobinary(int input){int a; if(input > 0){a = input % 2; return (converttobinary(input / 2) + "" +a); } return ""; } }