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CP3250:03

Network Administration 1

Townsville

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 52 hours practicals. Semester 1 and 2.

Staff:

Dr B Litow.

Popular network operating systems (NT, Unix, Netware); configuring networks, including DNS, DHCP, routing; user management and access control; file systems, including striped and fault-tolerant file systems; sharing file systems via the network; disk configuration and administration, backup and restore; managing printers and printer pools; managing processes, performance optimisation and capacity planning; securing systems, implementing security policies and system auditing; automating system administration tasks with scripts; secure connection technologies over regular Internet VPNs; remote network access; Web server installation and configuration; system management tools, trouble-shooting and maintenance.

Learning Objectives:

explain administration issues in information system environment;

understand and install appropriate hardware and network software;

manage users and domains;

optimise system performance, including security considerations;

install intranet/Internet (web server);

implement secure connection over Internet - virtual private networks;

perform post-installation and day-to-day administration in a single-domain or multiple-domain Microsoft Windows based network;

install, configure, customise, optimise, network, integrate and troubleshoot a windows environment, including tasks such as capacity planning on a server and a network and multiple domain management.

Assessment by end-of-semester examination (45%); quizzes/tests (25%); assignments (15%); practicals (15%).