IMIS Communications and Business Technology

Course

In Leicester

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  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    1 Year

An understanding of the information systems infrastructure: hardware, software, data storage, and telecommunications technology. Suitable for people who want to work with computers and need some entry level education.

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Leicester (Leicestershire)
24 Millstone Lane, LE1 5JN

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Course programme

Theme: Technological Support for Information Systems
Course: Diploma
Module Title: Communications and Business Technology
Module Code: D23
Resources: Internet connections
Assessment: By a single 3-hour externally set
examination paper
CATS Equivalent: 200 Notional Hours:

  • 80 Hours Structured,
  • 120 Hours Directed Self-Study

SPECIFIC COURSE AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • D3.3 Describe the technology required to support Information Systems (IS), and explain how such technology may be acquired, and the role of security systems.

MODULE AIMS:

To provide students with:

  • An understanding of the information systems infrastructure: hardware, software, data storage, and telecommunications technology. (A1)
  • Knowledge of how all this information technology works together with the Internet to create a new infrastructure for the digital integration of the enterprise. (A2)
  • An awareness of the opportunities created by the power of contemporary information systems and the global connectivity of the Internet, ensuring security and control. (A3)

MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Students should be able to:

A1:

  • Identify the hardware components in a typical computer system and interactive multimedia and their role in processing information. (LO1)
  • Compare the capabilities of mainframes, midrange computers, Personal Computers (PC), workstations, servers and supercomputers and identify different arrangements of computer processing. (LO2)
  • Describe the major types of software and compare leading PC operating systems. (LO3)
  • Analyse the strengths and limitations of the major application programming languages and software tools and describe contemporary approaches to software development. (LO4)
  • Describe the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems. (LO5)

A2:

  • Describe the basic components of a telecommunications system. (LO6)
  • Identify t he capacity of telecommunications channels, analyse transmission media and compare the various types of telecommunications networks. (LO7)
  • Analyse the alternative network services and identify the principal telecommunications applications for supporting electronic commerce and electronic business. (LO8) 19
  • Identify the features of the new information technology (IT) infrastructure and important connectivity standards.(LO9)
  • Describe how the Internet works, identify its major capabilities, recognise the benefits the Internet offers organisations and describe the principal technologies for supporting electronic commerce. (LO10)

A3:

  • Demonstrate why information systems are so vulnerable to destruction, error, abuse, and system quality problems and compare general controls and application controls for information systems. (LO11)
  • Identify the special measures required to ensure the reliability, availability and security of electronic commerce and digital business processes. (LO12)
  • Demonstrate the importance of auditing information systems and safeguarding data quality. (LO13)
  • Analyse important issues in managing hardware technology and organisational software assets. (LO14)

DETAILED MODULE CONTENT:

LO1: The Computer Hardware and IT Infrastructure

  • The computer system, how computers represent data, the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and primary storage, microprocessors and processing power, multiprocessors and parallel processing.
  • Storage, input and output technology: magnetic disks, optical disks, magnetic tape, new storage alternatives, input and output devices, interactive multimedia.

LO2: Categories of Computers and Computer Systems

  • Categories of computers, computer networks and client/server computing, network computers, peer-topeer computing.

LO3: System Software

  • Functions of the operating system, multiprogramming, virtual storage, time-sharing and multiprocessing, graphical user interfaces.

LO4: Application Software

  • Programming languages, fourth-generation languages and PC software tools, software for enterprise integration.

LO5: Distributed Processing Systems

  • Distributed systems definitions, evolution of distributed systems, duplicated databases and inconsistent data, centralisation and its disadvantages, networked systems, distributed file systems.
  • Advantages and disadvantages of distributed systems.

LO6: Components and Functions of a Telecommunications System

  • Telecommunication system components, functions of telecommunications systems, types of signals, communications channels, communications processors and software.

LO7: Communications networks

  • Network topologies, private branch exchanges, local area networks, wide area networks, network services and broadband technologies, and network convergence.

LO8: Electronic Business and Electronic Commerce Technologies

  • Electronic mail and groupware, voice mail and fax, teleconferencing, data conferencing and video conferencing, and electronic data interchange.
  • The information superhighway.

LO9: New IT Infrastructure for the Digital Firm

  • Enterprise networking and internetworking, standards and connectivity for digital integration.

LO10: The Internet and Electronic Commerce

  • What is the Internet, Internet technology and services, next generation Internet.
  • The world-wide web:
  • searching for information on the web, intranet and extranet technology
  • wireless communications.
  • Web servers and e-commerce servers, web content management tools, web performance monitoring tools, web hosting services.

LO11: System Vulnerability and Abuse

  • Why systems are vulnerable, system quality problems – software and data.

LO12: Creating a Control Environment

  • General controls and application controls, internet security challenges, security and e-commerce, developing a control structure – costs and benefits.

LO13: System Audits, Privacy, and Data Integrity Implications

  • The role of auditing in the control process, analyse security vulnerabilities, data quality audits and data cleansing.
  • Information rights: privacy and freedom in an information society, property rights, system quality: data quality and system errors.

LO14: Managing Hardware and Software Assets

  • Hardware technology requirements for electronic commerce, hardware acquisition and the total cost of ownership of technology assets, monitoring technology trends.
  • Rent or build decisions, software maintenance, selecting software for the organisation.

IMIS Communications and Business Technology

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