George is considering acquiring Alabama Woods. Like The North Georgia Products SBU, Alabama Woods, sells lumber specifically milled for barns and other farm-related outbuildings directly to its customers through a company-owned store in Muscle Shoals (Alabama); near the Mississippi state line. Unlike  North Georgia Products, Alabama Woods also sell product through its robust eCommerce website. George is considering buying Alabama Woods but running it as a separate SBU. The firm would not be consolidated into a single SBU with North Georgia Products; instead, The Georgia Lumber Company would be run as 3 SBUs with a corporate “umbrella”.  Alabama Woods would continue to focus its physical store on its Alabama customers while extending its eCommerce capabilities to the Georgia Lumber Company to service North Georgia Products retail customers. That said, the eCommerce capabilities are not a driver nor is it an important part of the strategy and would merely be considered a potential but uncertain benefit of the acquisition. This initiative, if approved by Otis Thomsan, could best be described as  a _____________ strategy NOTE: For those of you unfamiliar with US geography, Alabama and Georgia share a common border and Muscle Shoals is approximately 130 to 140 miles west of the state of Georgia state line. 

  Find the Laplace transform of the given function    

What is the pH of a buffer composed of 0.35 M H2PO4–(aq) and 0.65 M HPO42–(aq)? (Ka of H2PO4– is 6.2 x 10–8) a. 6.94 b. 7.21 c. 7.48 d. 7.73 e. 8.06

A network administrator is looking for an alternative network operating system (NOS) but also does not want a steep learning curve. Which of the following optimizes for NOS functionality?  

A network administrator analyzes the physical placement of routers or network appliances to ensure a secure location. What is the administrator helping to prevent?  

Which of the following statements concerning entropy is/are CORRECT?   1. The entropy of a substance increases when converted from a liquid to a solid.   2. The entropy of a substance decreases as its temperature increases.   3. All substances have positive entropy values at temperatures above 0 K.   a. 1 only b. 2 only c. 3 only d. 1 and 2 e. 1, 2, and 3

A Windows administrator wants to become more familiar with Linux but still wants to use Windows primarily. The administrator installs the bash subsystem for Windows and is reading about how Windows has made strides to become more compatible with Linux. Which of the following was part of the changes to the underlying New Technology File System (NTFS) structure?  

A company contracted out a development project to another country and had to grant certain permissions to the team, but during the extent of the project, the team was accessing files they should not have. The administrator investigates why they were able to access certain files. Which of the following applies last and sets the precedence for access?  

A user wants to use the netstat command but is unfamiliar with the different parameters. What can they use to learn more? (Select all that apply.)  

A user finds that their home computer fails to boot. The user believes part of the operating system (OS) is corrupted. They want to recover it but do not want to lose any personal documents. What should the user do?