ACIT4430 Infrastructure Services and Operations Emneplan

This course provides an overview of the most common services and components found in IT infrastructures in medium- to enterprise-sized organizations and businesses. The services are focused around the internal functioning of the IT department such as backup, logging and configuration management as well as inventory and directory systems.

The course is organized around weekly practical labs and lectures that complement each other. The student will get hands-on experience with the technologies as well as a holistic perspective on IT infrastructures.

No formal requirements over and above the admission requirements.

The student should have the following outcomes upon completing the course:

Knowledge

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should have:

• advanced knowledge of how system administration and operations facilitate organizations
• advanced knowledge of the terms and terminology used when system administration interfaces with an organization
• advanced knowledge of processes applied to system administration in order to facilitate requests from other parts of an organization
• deep knowledge of how an IT infrastructure is organized and what components it traditionally comprises of
• a good understanding of the support architecture of an IT infrastructure, such as backup, issue tracking and configuration management

Skills

Upon successful completion of the course, the student can:

• analyze an IT infrastructure with regard to its components and their purpose
• apply feature analysis in order to rank alternative components relative to their purpose
• organize the flow of tasks in an operations team
• propose ways to measure the performance of an operations team
• can leverage IaaS (cloud computing and virtual infrastructures) to provide systems, network and storage components to users
• utilize infrastructure support services in order to leverage system deployment to users

General competence

Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• discuss the role of system administration in an organization and society at large
• analyze how operations can interface with the rest of an organization in order to improve overall proficiency

Knowledge

On successful completion of this course the student has:

• knowledge of basic legal privacy concepts and data protection regulations and will be able to apply them in systems analysis and design
• knowledge of concepts of privacy by design and privacy impact assessment and the ability to compare different assessment methods
• applicable knowledge of principles of architectural tactics for privacy and privacy patterns.

Skills

On successful completion of this course the student can:

• map legal privacy principles to technical privacy concepts
• design and plan solutions that map security and privacy goals to mitigation mechanisms and technologies
• apply privacy by design and analyze software architectures using privacy impact assessments

• apply appropriate architectural tactics for privacy and privacy patterns in order to derive and create solutions that mitigate privacy risks

General competence

On successful completion of this course the student can:

• explain and apply their knowledge of security and privacy enhancing technologies

Ingen.

Kunnskap

Studenten:

• har inngående kunnskap om et utvalg av relevante vitenskapsteoretiske perspektiver på et avgrenset estetisk felt
• kan analysere og vurdere de teoretiske og praktiske elementene i utprøvings- og forskningsprosessen
• har kunnskap om og kan forholde seg kritisk til kildebruk og etiske vurderinger i utprøving, kreativ praksis og forskningsprosesser

Ferdigheter

Studenten 

• kan anvende utvalgt vitenskapsteori og metodekunnskap som er relevant for et avgrenset estetisk fagfelt på en selvstendig måte
• kan vurdere og drøfte forskningsmetodiske valg opp mot formål og problemstilling

• kan vurdere og anvende ulike kilder og forskningsetiske normer knyttet til forskningsprosessen

Generell kompetanse

Studenten

• kan arbeide selvstendig med utvikling av en problemstilling i kombinasjon med ulike relevante metoder

• kan anvende og formidle sine kunnskaper med forskningsmetodisk argumentasjon
• kan anvende kunnskaper og ferdigheter på de estetiske fagfeltene for å bidra til nytenking og innovasjonsprosesser

Undervisningen vil veksle mellom forelesninger og ulike studentaktive læringsformer. Studentene forventes å delta aktivt i undervisningen og i gruppearbeid utenfor undervisningen. 

Masterstudiet er basert på individuelle studier med deltagelse i grupper, forelesninger og tematiske workshops. Det legges vekt på både teoretisk og praktisk arbeid som studieform.

Studenten skal i emnet ha særlig fokus på å jobbe aktivt med et utvalg relevante forskningsmetoder som kan være relevante for sin fremtidige masteroppgave.

None.

Grade scale A-F

Two internal examiners. External examiner is used periodically.