Overview
This unit equips you with the skills and knowledge to design enterprise-level networks using contemporary on-premises, wireless, cloud, and cybersecurity technologies. It develops your ability to gather business and technical requirements and to justify the selection of networking and security solutions where competing priorities such as cost, performance, risk, security, and business objectives must be balanced. The unit also covers the use of industry-standard tools and techniques for network and security design, deployment, management, and protection, including automation, remote access, high availability, testing, monitoring, and documentation.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: COIT20261 Network Services and Automation
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2027
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Academic Progression Policy and Procedure
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student Feedback
Insufficient interactions in the lectures.
Develop interactive activities, such as checkpoint questions, to enhance student interaction during online lectures.
Feedback from Unit Coordinator's Reflection
Integrate advanced cloud computing practices to facilitate capstone projects.
Develop and integrate practical cloud computing practices (web server, email server, and Azure Active Directory service) within this unit.