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Unit Synopsis
This unit provides you with the skills and knowledge required to design wired and wireless networks using the Top-Down Network Design methodology. The unit equips you with the approaches used to gather business and technical requirements, and analyse them together with the security policies of the organisation. The unit includes campus, branch, WAN, wireless and Internet edge designs as well as testing and documentation.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisite: COIT20261 Network Routing and Switching Co-requisite: COIT20262 Advanced Network Security 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
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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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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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.
Source: Student Feedback
Students asked for more useful feedback to their assignments.
Update the marking guidelines (e.g. include samples of common feedback) to support the markers in providing more constructive feedback.
A more detailed marking guideline and moderation process were provided to markers to ensure that students received more constructive feedback.
Source: Student Feedback
The unit has provided a good understanding of cloud computing, which will be helpful for my future endeavours as an IT professional.
Students have acknowledged and commended the introduction of cloud computing. As cloud computing becomes mainstream nowadays, future teaching materials should include more of the latest cloud computing technologies.
There are extensive eight-week, cloud-based in-lab exercises designed to further enhance students’ skills.
Source: Student Feedback
Insufficient interactions in the lectures.
Develop interactive activities, such as checkpoint questions, to enhance student interaction during online lectures.
In Progress
Source: 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.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Prepare the business and technical requirements of the organisation in relation to network design
- Analyse the business and technical requirements
- Compare and contrast the possible alternative logical and physical network designs
- Design a network by applying the top-down network design methodology
- Justify that the designed network satisfies the requirements.
Australian Computer Society (ACS) recognises the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA). SFIA is in use in over 100 countries and provides a widely used and consistent definition of ICT skills. SFIA is increasingly being used when developing job descriptions and role profiles.
ACS members can use the tool MySFIA to build a skills profile at https://www.acs.org.au/professionalrecognition/mysfia-b2c.html
This unit contributes to the following workplace skills as defined by SFIA. The SFIA code is included:
- Network Planning (NTPL)
- Project management (PRMG)
- Network Design (NTDS)
- Availability Management (AVMT)
- Capacity Management (CPMG)
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