You have been hired as the security professional in your current work or school environment. Your department has experienced a recent breach within its database architecture. Your manager feels it is time to reassess the network as a first step in a phased approach to hardening the network security. You have been delegated to lead this assessment. Research your organization or school to determine its database architecture. Write a paper describing your assessment process. Imagine you are doing this for the company you work for.

Just copying this over just in case others with similar questions turn this up in search results rather than the other, haha!
When you multiply or divide a negative by another negative, you get a positive. When it is a negative and a positive, it remains negative.
Assuming your question simplified into a equation (or number form? Been a while, haha!) is 32÷-2÷(-16÷4), it would end as a positive. Because you first divide the positive 32 by a negative 2, you get a negative. Because -16÷4 is in parenthesis, it is done because following the rest of the equation (P.E.M.D.A.S.!), it would be 32÷-2÷-4. Going from left to right, as you should, it results in a negative being divided by another negative, so you get a positive. 32÷-2÷(-16÷4) = 32÷-2÷-4 = -16÷-4 = 2!