Current Events and Country Presentations   During the semester (August – December 2025), we read and discussed numerous global business topics and current events. In addition, you participated in and listened to the Country presentations. A. Discuss the three (3) global business topics/current events that were most interesting to you. I know tariffs, COVID-19, supply chain disruptions, wars, and inflation have dominated the past few years. Please, select other topics. B. Discuss three (3) things you learned from the Country presentations. C. Discuss two (2) recommended changes you would make to improve this course. 

There are three primary approaches when hiring staff for positions in a foreign country. a.    Explain the three staffing approaches  b.    Assume you a young French person and work for Carrefour (a large French retail and grocery company; they compete worldwide against Walmart). Carrefour has promoted you and transferred you to become the General Manager of a newly built retail store in Malaysia. Your immediate goal is to help Carrefour hire people to work in the Malaysian store and hold a spectacular grand opening within the next three (3) months. a. Discuss the staffing approach you would follow to hire both your local management team and store workers. b. Briefly (2 sentences) explain why your approach will be the most successful one in this situation. c. What is an expatriate? Why do companies use them?

The World is Flat  In The World is Flat Chapter 7 (The Right Stuff), Thomas Friedman discusses the need to make yourself “untouchable” and the five (5) skill sets or attitudes toward learning that will prepare young people to compete in a flat world. A. List and explain the five (5) skills or attitudes towards learning which will help prepare you for the new middle jobs in a flat world. B. How will you use these skills/attitudes to be successful in your chosen career?

Which of the following components represents a specific hardware device or software component that can be monitored?

Which service can be started on a system to reduce the amount of time it takes to repair filesystem errors?

Which DHCP option number provides a default gateway router?

Which task should you perform in Task Manager before stopping a problematic process for a program that was created by your organization?

Which of the following commands can be used to start the Apache Web server in a Linux container or WSL Linux distribution on a Windows Server 2019 system?

Which of the following steps is not a common troubleshooting procedure?

What can you configure in the Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security tool to automatically protect network traffic between computers using IPSec?