Undergraduate - UnitFIT1038 - Introduction to information technology

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to information technology architecture. It gives broad coverage of a range of different devices used to build an IT infrastructure for an organisation. For each device, its usage, functionality, internal architecture and connectivity will be explored. The exploration will enable students to see the relevance of different devices to the overall solution provided by an ICT infrastructure.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, student will be able to:

understand different components of a typical ICT infrastructure;
understand the different roles of devices in supporting human activities through exploration of ICT history;
identify different devices used in ICT, their usage, interfaces, operating systems and connectivity support;
understand the role of each device in building an ICT infrastructure;
design a basic ICT infrastructure for a given real world problem.

Assessment

In-semester assessment: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Campbell Wilson

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

Two hours of lectures
One 2-hour studio

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

A minimum of 8 hours of independent study per week for reading, private study and revision.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Enterprise information management
Information and communication technologies

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu/units/fit1038/