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NTC 300 Wk 1 Discussion – Cloud Constraints

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Define cloud computing workload and environmental constraints.

Discuss how these concepts affect the performance and the capability of the cloud instance. Consider the effects of each individually as well as combined.

Offer a solution to reduce cloud constraints on cloud performance.

Consider suggesting additional solutions of elasticity, shared resources, or infrastructure consolidation to reduce the constraints while highlighting the benefits of the selected solution.

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

NTC 300 Wk 2 Discussion – Cloud Security

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

You work for an IT department that has weekly IT roundtables. This week the topic is cloud security and you will lead one of the conversations.

Select one of the following types of security that can be included in the cloud:

• Layering
• Least privilege
• Separation of duty

Research whether the security type you identified is frequently used by businesses and why or why not.

Post your responses to the following prompts to the discussion area:

• Provide a short summary about what you found to be the usage of the security type in business.
• Describe the circumstances in which the security type would be appropriate.
• Describe the circumstances that would indicate the security type would not be appropriate.
• What are some high-level steps to implement the security type?

Consider sharing additional information or insights about how technologies may affect the use of security solution. Alternatively, consider sharing an experience or something you read to further the solution described.

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

NTC 300 Wk 3 Discussion – Patch Mangement

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

Patch management is critical to ensuring system security and functionality. Non-IT professionals, however, may question the resources dedicated to ensuring proper patch management.

Prepare to justify patch management and to explain how patch management works by answering the following questions:

• What is the purpose of patch management?
• What is the order of operations for patching?
• Are patches cumulative? Why or why not?

Research instances of security breaches that could have been avoided with sound patch management.

Describe one example that could help persuade your non-IT colleagues of the importance and value of patch management.

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

NTC 300 Wk 4 Discussion – Service Level Agreement

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

You have been asked by your manager to draft a service level agreement (SLA) with your new third-party cloud service provider.

Identify three components (e.g., uptime or storage availability) you believe are critical to include in the SLA.

Describe the component and why the component is critical to include.

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.

NTC 300 Wk 5 Discussion – Troubleshooting

Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to other students.

Due Thursday

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

You lead an IT team assigned to support users of cloud-based applications. You are concerned the team members do not appreciate the importance of identifying and resolving issues affecting the security or performance of the applications as quickly as possible. You decide to address this at the next team meeting.

Research recent security events of cloud-based systems.

Explain the event and its negative effects.

Describe how a thorough troubleshooting process could have reduced the negative effects of the event.

Due Monday

Reply to at least 2 of your classmates. Be constructive and professional in your responses.