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ITB4 12
System Survey Techniques
Total hours 20 * Prahran
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Software Development; and the Certificate IV
and Diploma in Information Technology: Technical and
User Support.
Content
This module intends to provide students of systems
analysis with skills and practice in a number of methods
used to carry out, analyse and document surveys amongst
data processing system users and clients.
ITB414 Input / Output Design
Total hours 20 Prahran
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Technical and User Support.
Content
This module enables students to learn and practise
techniques for establishing and documenting appropriate
input and output content and dialogues for data processing
applications.
ITB415 User Needs Analysis
Total hours 20 Prahran
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Software Development and the Certificate IV
and Diploma in Information Technology: Technical and
User Support.
Content
This module will provide the knowledge and skills required
to carry out a user needs anaylsis.
ITB416
CASE Tools
U Total hours 20 Prahran Prerequisite: ITB406 System
@ Documentation Methods
2 A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
9 Technology: Software Development.
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r Content
This module ~rovidestudents with knowledge of software
~roducts available to aid in the systems development
process, the function of each of these tools, the ability to
select an appropriate tool.
lTC301 Computer System Basics
Total hours 20 Hawthom/Prahran Prerequisites: nil
A subject in the Diploma of Applied Science Materials
Engineering); the Certificate IV in Materials Science; the
Certificate I11 in Information Technology; the Certificate I1
in Information Technology: Occupational Studies; and the
Certificate I1 in Information Technology: Computer
Applications.
Content
The aim of this module is to familiarise the student with
the terminology used to describe the main components of
the 'traditional' single-CPU computer system in its various
guises, and with the purpose of each component and its
contribution to the functioning of the complete system.
The student will also become familiar with simple measures
of a computer's speed and capacity. The student will have
assembled the components of a typical retail personal
computer into an operating system.
ITC304 Word Processing Operations
A modules in the Diploma of Applied Science (Materials
Engineering) and the Certificate IV in Materials Science.
Students produce, format and electronically file multiple
page word processed documents.
ITC302 /ITC407 Microcomputer Hardware
and Fault Finding
Total hours 20 Prahran
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Technical and User Support.
Content
These modules provide students with skills to assemble a
microcomputer from components. This will include the
ability to select and install appropriate components,
perform a range of hardware upgrades, and identify and
rectify faults in microcomputer hardware.
ITC402 Microcomputer Architecture
Total hours 20 Prahran
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Software Development; and the Certificate I11
in Information Technology.
Content
The aim of this module is to use the study of a particular
microcomputer architecture to provide the student with
transferable skills needed to understand the architecture of
a typical single-CPU computer system with particular
emphasis on the internal structure of the CPU, the nature
of its operational cycle and its control, instruction and data
connections with other digital devices.
ITD50 1 He1 p-Desk Procedures
Total hours 20 Prahran
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Technical and User Support.
Content
This rmdule enables students to effectively carry out tasks
and provide customer service in a 'help-desk' situation.
ITD505 Quality Assurance in Information
Technology
Total hours 20 Prahran Prerequisite: ITB301 l3e
Business Environment
A subject in the Certificate IV and Diploma in Information
Technology: Software Development and the Certificate IV
and Diploma in Information Technology: Technical and
User Support.
Content
This module provides students with the knowledge required
to describe quality assurance principles and techniques used
in information technology business organisations and
apply techniques as appropriate in the workplace.