You've been given an assignment to evaluate NoSQL databases as a part of a big data analysis initiative in your organization. You've downloaded an open source NoSQL database from the internet and installed it on a test system in an isolated lab environment. What should you do to harden this database before implementing it in a production environment

1. which of the following statements are true about routers and routing on the internet. choose two answers. a. protocols ensure that a single path between two computers is established before sending packets over it. b. routers are hierarchical and the "root" router is responsible for communicating to sub-routers the best paths for them to route internet traffic. c. a packet traveling between two computers on the internet may be rerouted many times along the way or even lost or "dropped". d. routers act independently and route packets as they see fit.

The program below has been generalized to read a user's input value for hourlywage. run the program. notice the user's input value of 10 is used. modify that input value, and run again. generalize the program to get user input values for workhoursperweek and workweeksperyear (change those variables' initializations to 0). run the program. monthsperyear will never change, so define that variable as final. use the standard for naming final variables. ex: final int max_length

3. ranga ramasesh is the operations manager for a firm that is trying to decide which one of four countries it should research for possible outsourcing providers. the first step is to select a country based on cultural risk factors, which are critical to eventual business success with the provider. ranga has reviewed outsourcing provider directories and found that the four countries in the table that follows have an ample number of providers from which they can choose. to aid in the country selection step, he has enlisted the aid of a cultural expert, john wang, who has provided ratings of the various criteria in the table. the resulting ratings are on a 1 to 10 scale, where 1 is a low risk and 10 is a high risk. john has also determined six criteria weightins: trust, with a weight of 0.3; quality, with 0.2; religious, with 0.1; individualism, with 0.2; time, with 0.1; and uncertainity, with 0.1. using the factor-rating method, which country should ranga select? why? (2 points)