Economics Capital Expenses Questions

Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. 

The discussion questions this week are from Chapter’s 16-20  (Jamsa, 2013).

Chapter 16 topics:

• Define and describe total cost of ownership. List at least 10 items to consider when determining a data center’s total cost of ownership.
• Define and describe a capital expense. How are capital expenses different from operational expenses?
• Define and describe economies of scale and provide a cloud-based example.
• Define and describe “right sizing” as it pertains to cloud computing.
• Define Moore’s law and discus how it might influence cloud migration.
• Given company revenues of $2.5 million and expenses of $2.1 million, calculate the company’s profit and profit margin.

Chapter 17 topics:

• Compare and contrast functional and nonfunctional requirements and provide an example of each.
• Discuss why a designer should avoid selecting an implementation platform for as long as possible during the design process.
• Discuss various trade-offs a designer may need to make with respect to nonfunctional requirements.
• Discuss why the system maintenance phase is often the most expensive phase of the software development life cycle.

Chapter 18 topics:

• Using Yahoo! Pipes, create a pipe that displays the names of pizza restaurants within a given zip code.
• Using Google App Engine, create a page that displays the following Python script:
  • print “Content-type: text/htmlnn”
  • print “<html>Cloud Computing, Chapter 18</html>”

Chapter 19 topics:

• Define scalability.
• List five to ten potential relationships that align with the Pareto principle, such as how 80 percent of sales come from 20 percent of customers.
• Compare and contrast vertical and horizontal scaling.
• Explain the importance of the database read/write ratio.
• Assume a site guarantees 99.99 percent uptime. How many minutes per year can the site be down?

Chapter 20 topics:

• List and describe five ways you think the cloud will change the future of TV.
• List and describe five potential uses for intelligent fabric.
• List and describe five ways the cloud will influence the mobile application market, or vice versa.
• Discuss the importance of HTML 5.
• Discuss how the cloud will impact future operating systems.
• List and describe three potential location-aware applications.
• List and describe five ways intelligent devices may work together.