IT professionals will encounter a variety of platforms in their careers. The role of the IT professional is to select, deploy, integrate and administer platforms or components to support the organization’s IT infrastructure. This knowledge area includes the fundamentals of hardware and software and how they integrate to form essential components of IT systems. This course covers the techniques that are used for the installation, configuration, and maintenance of computer hardware, software, and network infrastructure. The course presents the basic theoretical concepts of computer networks and operating systems in a little less detail than would be the case for specialist courses on these subjects. These basic concepts are complemented by practical demonstrations and hands on exercises of tasks that are carried out by a system administrator.
Students will be required to pass both the coursework and the final examination to pass the course.
COMP2340 - Computer Systems Organization AND COMP2190 - Net-Centric Computing.