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3.2 Lannion and Co. is engaged in providing and marketing a standard advice service. Summarised results for the past two months reveal the following:October November Sales (units of the service) 200 300 Sales revenue (£) 5,000 7,500 Operating profit (£) 1,000 2,200 There were no price changes of
3.1 The management of a business is concerned about its inability to obtain enough fully trained labour to enable it to meet its present budget projection.Service: Alpha Beta Gamma Total £000 £000 £000 £000 Variable costs Materials 6 4 5 15 Labour 9 6 12 27 Expenses 3 2 2 7 Allocated fixed
3.4 If there is a scarce resource that is restricting sales, how will the business maximise its profit?Explain the logic of the approach that you have identified for maximising profit.
3.3 When we say that some business activity has high operating gearing, what do we mean? What are the implications for the business of high operating gearing?
3.2 What is meant by the BEP for an activity? How is the BEP calculated? Why is it useful to know the BEP?
3.1 Define the terms fixed cost and variable cost. Explain how an understanding of the distinction between fixed costs and variable costs can be useful to managers.
2.8 A business places substantial emphasis on customer satisfaction and, to this end, delivers its product in special protective containers. These containers have been made in a department within the business. Management has recently become concerned that this internal supply of containers is very
2.7 Rob Otics Ltd, a small business that specialises in building electronic-control equipment, has just received an order from a customer for eight identical robotic units. These will be completed using Rob Otic’s own labour force and factory capacity. The product specification prepared by the
2.6 A local education authority is faced with a predicted decline in the demand for school places in its area. It is believed that some schools will have to close in order to remove up to 800 places from current capacity levels. The schools that may face closure are referenced as A, B, C or D.Their
2.5 A business in the food industry is currently holding 2,000 tonnes of material in bulk storage. This material deteriorates with time, and so in the near future it needs to be repackaged for sale or sold in its present form.The material was acquired in two batches: 800 tonnes at a price of £40 a
2.4 SJ Services Ltd has been asked to quote a price for a special contract to render a service that will take the business one week to complete. Information relating to labour for the contract is as follows:Grade of labour Hours required Basic rate/hour Skilled 27 £12 Semi-skilled 14 £9 Unskilled
2.3 Andrews and Co. Ltd has been invited to tender for a contract. It is to produce 10,000 metres of an electrical cable in which the business specialises. The estimating department of the business has produced the following information relating to the contract:l Materials: The cable will require a
2.2 The local authority of a small town maintains a theatre and arts centre for the use of a local repertory company, other visiting groups and exhibitions. Management decisions are taken by a committee that meets regularly to review the financial statements and to plan the use of the
2.1 Lombard Ltd has been offered a contract for which there is available production capacity.The contract is for 20,000 identical items, manufactured by an intricate assembly operation, to be produced and delivered in the next few months at a price of £80 each. The specification for one item is as
2.4 What is meant by the expression ‘committed cost’? How do committed costs arise?
2.3 Define the word ‘cost’ in the context of management accounting.
2.2 Distinguish between a sunk cost and an opportunity cost.
2.1 To be relevant to a particular decision, a cost must have two attributes. What are they?
1.2 Jones Dairy Ltd (Jones) operates a ‘doorstep’ fresh milk delivery service. Two brothers carry on the business that they inherited from their father in the early 1960s. They are the business’s only directors. The business operates from a yard on the outskirts of Trepont, a substantial town
1.1 You have been speaking to a friend who owns a small business and she has said that she has read something about strategic management and that no modern business can afford not to get involved with it. Your friend has little idea what strategic management involves.Required:Briefly outline the
1.4 ‘Accounting information should be understandable. As some managers have a poor knowledge of accounting we should produce simplified financial reports to help them.’ To what extent do you agree with this view?
1.3 Assume that you are a manager considering the launch of a new service. What accounting information might be useful to help in making a decision?
1.2 Management accounting has been described as ‘the eyes and ears of management’. What do you think this expression means?
1.1 Identify the main users of accounting information for a university. Do these users differ very much from the users of accounting information for private-sector businesses? Is there a difference in the ways in which accounting information for a university would be used compared with that for a
What are useful mechanisms for managing cultural tourism appropriately?
Has cultural tourism the capacity to be managed appropriately to meet the needs of the tourist, the presenter and the site?
What are some of the initiatives under way with a view to developing tourism in a suitable way for the future?
What are some of the main circumstances of cultural tourism today?
If a site is not able to operate as a commercial enterprise itself, how might income for it be generated?
How can a site be evaluated for visitor attractiveness and revenue-generating capacity?
Are there types of site which are not suitable to be treated as commercial commodities?
Can entertainment affect a site?
What types of entertainment might be appropriate in attracting tourists to which type of site?
What might be the benefits of using entertaining methods at a site?
How can information about a site be made compelling and interesting to people round the world?
Is it possible to communicate to a mass audience simultaneously and if so, how?
What are the main audience groups at a tourist site and what are their distinguishing characteristics in communications terms?
What might be beneficial about providing a diversionary attraction?
What types of devices might be deployed to deter tourists from visiting a site, and why?
Why might tourists not visit a site, and what might constitute a bad tourism experience?
What are some of the ways of attracting tourists to a site?
What might be the disadvantages in seeking to develop a new attraction, and how could they be minimized or avoided?
What are some of the characteristics which distingush an attractive tourism site?
Might needs of a directly involved site presenter and those of the community surrounding a site conflict, and if so, how?
What might be a community’s needs of a site in its midst or environs?
What are some of the principal needs of a site presenter who is directly involved?
A visitor need being defined, how might this be translated into a presentation which is appropriate at a site?
Is it possible for any one cultural site or item to meet the full range of visitor needs?
What do cultural tourists in particular want from a visit to a site?
What are some of the major groups and needs of tourists?
What are some of the main matters for consideration in regard to tourism and its operation?
Who are some of the ‘players’ and principals in tourism, and why?
Why is tourism a growth industry?
What major initiatives in global society have there been in recent years which affect tourism?
Can tourism be democratic; and can the cultural heritage be accessible to all?
. A system has three components and requires all three components to be operational 24 hours, Monday through Friday. Failure of component 1 occurs as follows:n Monday = No failure.n Tuesday = 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.n Wednesday = No failure.n Thursday = 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.n Friday = 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.Calculate
. The IT infrastructure of an organization consists of three storage arrays directattached to a heterogeneous mix of 45 servers. All servers are dual-attached to the arrays for high availability. Because each storage array has 32 front-end ports, each could support a maximum of 16 servers. However,
. An organization wants to implement a full mesh FC SAN. Following is the specifi cation of servers, storage systems, and switches involved in the design:n Number of hosts = 30. Each host has two single-port HBAs.n Number of storage arrays = 4. Each array has eight front-end ports.n Available
. Research management of object-based storage and scale-out NAS.
. An engineering design department of a large company maintains more than 600,000 engineering drawings that its designers access and reuse, modify, or update as required. The design team wants instant access to the drawings for its current projects but is currently constrained by an infrastructure
. Research storage multitenancy and its advantages and disadvantages.
. Research management of cloud infrastructure and services.
. Research and prepare a presentation on SMI-S.
. Research and prepare a presentation on multifactor authentication security technique.
. Explain various security concerns and measures in the virtualized and cloud environment.
. Develop a checklist for auditing the security of a storage environment with SAN, NAS, and iSCSI implementations. Explain how you will perform the audit. Research possible security loopholes. List them and provide control mechanisms that should be implemented to eliminate them.
. A storage array dials a support center automatically whenever an error is detected. The vendor’s representative at the support center can log on to the service processor of the storage array through the Internet to perform diagnostics and repair. Discuss the security concerns in this
. Research the following security mechanisms, and explain how they are used:n MD-5 algorithm n SHA-256 algorithm n RADIUS n DH-CHAP
. What are the costs that should be evaluated to determine the financial advantage of cloud?
. Research various considerations for selecting a public cloud service provider.
. Research cloud orchestration.
. Research Service Oriented Architecture and its application in cloud computing.
. How does cloud computing bring in business agility?
. What are the essential characteristics of cloud computing?
. A database is stored on ten 9-GB RAID 1 LUNs. A cascade three-site remote replication solution involving a synchronous and disk-buffered solution has been chosen for disaster recovery. All the LUNs involved in the solution have RAID 1 protection. Calculate the total amount of raw capacity
. Discuss the effects of a source failure in a three-site replication for the following implementations and the available recovery options:n Multihop — synchronous + disk buffered n Multihop — synchronous + asynchronous n Multitarget
. Discuss the effects of a bunker failure in a three-site replication for the following implementations:n Multihop — synchronous + disk buffered n Multihop — synchronous + asynchronous n Multitarget
. Explain the RPO that can be achieved with synchronous, asynchronous, and disk-buffered remote replication.
. What are the considerations for implementing synchronous remote replication?
. An administrator configures six pointer-based virtual replicas of a source LUN and creates eight full-volume replicas of the same LUN. The administrator then creates four pointer-based virtual replicas for each full-volume replica that was created. How many usable replicas are now available?
. Research continuous data protection technology and its benefits over array-based replication technologies.
. Research factors that determine storage capacity requirements for a save location in pointer-based virtual replication.
. Describe the uses of a local replica in various business operations.
. Research various techniques used to ensure consistency of a local replica.
. Research and prepare a presentation on the benefits and challenges of using cloud storage for archiving.
. Describe the benefits of using a virtual tape library over a physical tape library.
. List and explain the considerations in using tape as the backup technology. What are the challenges in this environment?
. What are the various business/technical considerations for implementing a backup solution, and how do these considerations impact the choice of backup solution/implementation?
. There are limited backup devices in a file sharing NAS environment.Suggest a suitable backup implementation that can minimize the network traffic, avoid any congestion, and at the same time not impact the production operations. Justify your answer.
. A customer performs a full backup on the first Sunday of the month followed by a cumulative backup on the other Sundays. They also perform an incremental backup each day Monday through Saturday. Tapes are sent offsite for disaster recovery every morning at 10 a.m. The customer experiences a
. Research server clustering technology used in a data center.
. Research various planned and unplanned occurances of information unavailability in the context of data center operations.
. The IT department of a bank provide customers access to the currency conversion rate table between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday. It updates the table every day at 8:00 a.m. with a feed from the mainframe system. The update process takes 35 minutes to complete. On Thursday,
. A system has three components and requires all three to be operational during 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. business hours, Monday through Friday. Failure of component 2 occurs as follows:n Monday = 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.n Tuesday = No failure n Wednesday = 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.n Thursday = 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.n Friday = 1
. A system has three components and requires all three to be operational 24 hours, Monday through Friday. Failure of component 1 occurs as follows:n Monday = No failure n Tuesday = 5 a.m. to 7 a.m.n Wednesday = No failure n Thursday = 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.n Friday = 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.Calculate the MTBF
. When is unified storage a suitable option for a data center? Justify your answer by comparing the unified storage offering with traditional storage solutions.
. Research REST and SOAP and their implementations.
. Research and prepare a presentation to demonstrate a scenario in which object-based storage is a better choice over SAN and NAS.
. Explain the storage and retrieval process for block, file, and object access in a unified storage system.
. Discuss the object storage and retrieval process in an OSD system.

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