CP3250 - Network Administration 1

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:

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 Outcomes

• explain administration issues in information system environment;
• implement secure connection over Internet virtual private networks;
• install intranet/Internet (web server);
• 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;
• manage users and domains;
• optimise system performance, including security considerations;
• perform post-installation and day-to-day administration in a single-domain or multiple-domain Microsoft Windows based network;
• understand and install appropriate hardware and network software.

Prerequisites:	CP1300 plus 6 units of CP subjects
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	CP2250 and CP5250

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc138789.
Contact hours:	26 hours 52 hours
, , Study Period 22
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc138789.
Contact hours:	26 hours 52 hours
, , Study Period 23
Census Date 23-Dec-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc138789.
Contact hours:	26 hours 52 hours

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