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Enterprise Technologies and Architectures

Unit Code: HIT1322




Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

1 Semester

36 Hours

Hawthorn

Nil
 

Nil

Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points


Related Course/s:

Aims & Objectives:

After successfully completing this unit, you should be able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of organisational management and fundamental business strategies and apply techniques to achieve successful business outcomes
  • Apply supply chain management techniques and Porter’s value chain principles to business situations
  • Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental computer hardware and apply that knowledge to produce hardware configuration specifications for a business context
  • Demonstrate knowledge of various desktop and server operating systems and be able to explain the fundamental differences between them
  • Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental networking principles and design and apply that knowledge to produce a network design model for a simple business problem
  • Demonstrate knowledge of Work Flow Modelling techniques
  • Demonstrate knowledge of various UML diagrams, specifically System Sequence Diagrams and Class Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and Use Case Diagrams, and identify their components.

Teaching Methods:

Lectures/Seminars (24 hrs), Tutorial (12 hrs)

Assessment:

Assignments, Presentations, Test, Exam

Generic Skills Outcomes:

The graduate attributes which relate to this subject help to produce graduates who:

  • Are capable in their chosen professional, vocational or study areas
  • Are adaptable and manage change.
  • Are aware of environments.
  • Operate effectively and ethically in work and community situations
  • Are entrepreneurial in contributing to innovation and development within their business, workplace, and community

Content:

  • Overview of hardware and operating systems.
  • Single and multiple CPU and core architectures
  • Data communication protocols, routers, gateways, security and firewalls
  • Data organisation and management systems
  • Web servers and server loads
  • Modelling of business organisations/ Organisational Structures
  • Business applications/ resource planning systems
  • Supply chain management/ value chain management

Reading Materials:

J McGovern, S Ambler,M Stevens, J Linn, V Aharran, E Jo. A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture, Prentice Hall 2004
John Satizinger, Robert Jackson, Stephen Burd : Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World 4th Edition: Thomson Publication
Alan Evans, Kendall Martin, Mary Ann Poatsy: Technology in Action 2nd Edition Prentice Hall