Domains
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Systems Administration -
- Demonstrate technological literacy skills necessary to design components of information systems solutions.
- Minimize systems risks, threats, and vulnerabilities using best practices in user and resource administration.
- Identify and manage data storage techniques and resource requirements using virtualization best practices.
- Perform scripting techniques and/or programming skills to administer and automate information systems.
- Analyze, identify, and implement common operating systems within a corporate or enterprise environment.
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Network Administration - Students will explore various IT applications which involve networking. The IT operations are examined within the context of data communications, telecommunications, inter/intranetworking, and infrastructure security. It also includes application of networking to multimedia, information storage and distribution, and the World Wide Web.
- Select, design, deploy, integrate, and administer network and communication infrastructures in an organization using in-house and cloud-based solutions.
- Explain routing switching, physical and transport layers relevant to the IT discipline.
- Implement tools and strategies to ensure network security.
- Discuss issues of network management and propose possible solutions.
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Information Security -
- Develop policies and processes that ensure the security of information.
- Implement security measures in code to protect information systems.
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Project Management -
- Analyze leadership skills in terms of diversity, effectiveness, and responsiveness to organizational needs.
- Communicate a vision of leadership, synthesized through critical thinking and conceptual skills, which is intended to motivate and inspire others to achieve organizational goals.
- Execute strategy in projects, manage the creation of IT and technology infrastructures, create plans and schedules, measure performance, and ensure quality.
- Evaluate project risks while developing and implementing strategies to resolve various issues including conflict management, resource challenges, and change management.
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Professionalism and Ethics -
- Analyze the social and professional context of information technology and computing, and adhere to ethical codes of conduct.
- Research the historical, social, professional, ethical and legal aspects of computing.
- Articulate and demonstrate how teamwork is integrated in IT and how IT supports an organization.
- Recognize and demonstrate the importance of professional oral and written communication skills.
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