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1~504 Data Communications 1
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Subject aims
To introduce the fundamental concepts and components
involved in data communications and to develop an
understanding of communication protocols and computer
networks. To familiarise students with various technologies
used in the electronic office.
Subject description
Historical evolution of computer communications: Standards,
codes. Basic communications theories and terminologies.
Transmission media, signal types, interface standards. The data
link layer. Terminal based networks. Introduction to OSI: the
seven layer mode, comparison of proprietary network
architectures. Public data networks: packet-switched data
networks, circuit switched data networks, ISDN, standards.
Local area networks: topology and access method, LAN
management distributed data processing: pros and cons, the
challenge of distributed data, manaqing the distributed
resources. Network planningmanagement: internetworking,
performance evaluation, management and security issues
overview of Telecom services: Austpac, Fastpac, Datel, DDS,
Megalink services. Office automation. Current issues in
g computer communications: value added networks, 6-ISDN,
2: message handling systems, EDI, EFTPOS.
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r 1~509 Software Engineering 1
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
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Subject aims
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To develop an understanding of the basic problems which are
0 encountered in the development and maintenance of
2. computer software and the current tools and techniques
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which are used by industry to overcome these problems.
This subject complements IT501 Systems and lnformation
o Analysis 1 by concentrating on the latter stage of the software
. life cycle, particularly design. Students develop management
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3 and design documentation and experience working as a
member of a software project team.
Subject description
The software life cycle, human factors, planning tasks,
resource allocation, structured design, object oriented design,
interface design and evaluation, implementation, testing and
maintenance.
1~601 Systems and lnformation Analysis 2
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Prerequisite: IT501 Systems and lnformation
Analysis 1
Subject aims
This subject will build on the technical knowledge gained in
earlier subiects and provide students with an understanding of
the variou; ways in which the total corporate computing -
environment can be designed to meet corporate information
needs and support corporate goals.
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
understand the way that managers think and work and
the need for computer systems to improve their
effectiveness in decision making;
justify the need for careful analysis, risk assessment and
control procedures suitable for different systems
development approaches;
describe the methodologies in use in organisations and
to determine the correct develooment aaoroach . , for
different systems;
understand the need for different approaches to
computer systems development to ensure that corporate
information needs are met and computing productivity is
maxirnised.
Subject description
lnformation systems theory - information needs of
management, impact of information systems on strategic
corporate plans.
Traditional life cycle development.
Problems with traditional life cycle development.
User driven computing -elimination of the functions of user
and analyst, user abilities, quality assurance, private systems;
resource requirements - hardware, software and support
structures.
Life cycle variations - methodology and scope, variations in
roles, controls framework.
Management issues - management of maintenance, risk
assessment and control review, security and privacy, human
resource planning, use and misuse of methodologies.
1~603 Data Base Management Systems 3
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Subject description
This subject completes the study of database management
systems of subjects DBMS 1 & 2. The topics studied in this
subject are:
database recovery
* database integrity
concurrency
database security
distributed databases
special purpose database machines.
IT609 Software Engineering 2
10 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisite: Software Engineering 1
Subject aims
This subject aims to develop in more detail some of the basic
notions of the software life cycle as studied in IT509 Software
Engineering I.
A greater emphasis will be placed upon techniques for
managing and improving the process of large-scale software
development. Students should be able to apply their
understanding to the development of modern software
systems and become fully participating members of software
project teams.
Subject description
Software standards, software cost and schedule estimation,
software risk management, software configuration
management, software quality management, software metrics.
Group project.