CP2012 - Networking

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	School of Business

This subject introduces students to networking standards, architectures, technologies, and operations in enterprise infrastructure. It provides knowledge of standard network protocols, quality of service for critical applications, network management, TCP/IP based on bodies of knowledge such as MCP, CCNA and ITIL. Students will gain hands-on experience in network design, configuration and administration.

Learning Outcomes

• use the OSI and TCP/IT models to describe communications in LAN and WAN environments;
• design and configure a network;
• use access lists to implement network security;
• 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;
• perform post-installation and day-to-day administration in a single-domain or multiple-domain Microsoft Windows based network.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to work individually and independently.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

CP2231 CP3250

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coord/Lect:	Mr Colin Lemmon.
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 26 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (10% - 20%); (30% - 40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coord/Lect:	Mr Colin Lemmon.
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 24 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week starting the second week.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (10% - 20%); (30% - 40%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51
Census Date 25-Mar-2010
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Lecturer:	Mr Chris Christensen.
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 26 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (10% - 20%); (30% - 40%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 18-Nov-2010
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 26 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (10% - 20%); (30% - 40%).
Beijing UT, Internal, Study Period 69
Census Date 07-Oct-2010
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 26 hours practicals - One two-hour practical each week.
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (10% - 20%); (30% - 40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.