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Week 5 - The Final Post

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It’s wild to think how something as everyday as a mobile app is rooted in so many deep IT fundamentals. After learning more throughout this course, I now see how connected my blog topic is to everything we’ve studied—from the history of computers to networks and databases. Web and mobile apps aren’t just creative tools or job-generating platforms; they result from decades of IT evolution, hardware innovation, and software development (Hanif et al., 2019). Tied to Tech’s Origins and Operation    Web and mobile apps wouldn’t exist without the evolution of computing. Applications have gone from running on massive mainframe computers to living in the cloud today. They remain closely tied to the foundational IT principles of input/output, software architecture, networking, and programming logic. We witness a modern take on decades of computer science advancement each time we tap an app. Hardware Still Matters    Even though apps seem simple, they rely on essential hardwar...
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Network Security; Week 4

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How to effectively integrate AI tools into your blogging process to produce high-quality, engaging, and accurate content? Integrating AI tools into the blogging process can enhance creativity, improve content quality, and help create different tones for topic suggestions or by helping present a tone that helps your posts become more engaging based on what type of blog you are trying to achieve. How to ensure the content maintains your brand voice and consistency? Even with AI’s help, maintaining a consistent brand identity is still a task for us humans. Whether your blog tone is casual, humorous, professional, or a mix of everything, it’s essential to personalize and edit AI content to reflect your own unique personality and voice in your blog. How to double-check all facts, statistics, and references for accuracy to avoid spreading false information? Whenever you are using AI for any facts, stats, or references, you should always be checking multiple sources and even testing out the r...
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Computers in the workplace; Week 4

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  I chose the topic of  Sales  since  I am a licensed insurance agent who spends most of my workday writing auto and home policies and working directly with clients while using my computer.  Everything I do daily for my job currently relies on computer-based systems. Our software platforms allow me to input client information and receive quotes based on our rates. CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems help me follow up or find potential prospects, schedule renewals, and reviews, and keep my book of business organized and trackable. Most of the time, communication (outside of coming "in person" to the office) is done by using email, text, and electronic signatures, which makes things super convenient compared to having a massive physical paper trail for hundreds or thousands of clients. Computer literacy isn't optional; it's critical. I must understand how to move between our systems smoothly, protect sensitive client data, and adapt quickly whenever sof...
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Traveling through the network; Week 3

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  Part 1 - PING: Part 2 - TRACEPORT:     Running the  ping  and  traceroute  commands gave me a better understanding of how data moves across a network. The ping command sends packets to a specific IP address and calculates the roundtrip time (RTT), which tells you how fast the connection is and if the destination is reachable. It’s a simple but effective tool to test network performance. On the other hand, traceroute shows the exact path that packets take to get to the destination, listing every router or "hop" along the way. When I tested google.com, amazon.ca, and amazon.in, there were some clear differences in response times. Google returned the fastest RTTs, mostly ranging between 16–21 ms. Amazon Canada was somewhere in the middle (16-31ms), and Amazon India was the slowest, with RTTs mostly between 102–134   ms.   These results make sense to me, since the farther the server is physically, the longer it takes for data to travel there an...
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