INFOSYS 304 : IT Infrastructure

Business and Economics

2025 Semester One (1253) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Modern IT infrastructure relies on a functionally hierarchical network designed around the OSI model. Explores internet-oriented backbones and high-speed access infrastructure, and uses the TCP/IP suite, cloud infrastructure and digital services, and applications to understand basic and business-oriented infrastructure challenges such as capacity planning, architecture design, and scaling of IT infrastructure and applications.

Course Overview

This course provides an introduction to information technology (IT) infrastructure principles and applications. It covers topics related to both computer and systems architecture and communication networks, with an overall focus on the services and capabilities that IT infrastructure solutions enable in an organizational context. The course is aimed to give students the knowledge and skills for designing organizational processes and solutions that require an understanding of the IT infrastructure capabilities and limitations. The course core strongly relies on Internet-based solutions and an understanding of their dependence on computers and networks.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: 15 points from COMPSCI 230, INFOSYS 220 and 15 points from COMPSCI 215, 235, INFOSYS 222 Restriction: INFOSYS 224, 322, 339

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 3: Knowledge and Practice
Capability 4: Critical Thinking
Capability 5: Solution Seeking
Capability 7: Collaboration
Graduate Profile: Bachelor of Commerce

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Describe the key principles of digital representation of data and information and their manipulation in computing solutions. (Capability 3)
  2. Apply the principles underlying layered systems architecture to describe how information technology infrastructure functions and how to plan and manage it. (Capability 3 and 5)
  3. Work individually and as a team to demonstrate a clear understanding of security principles as they pertain to information, networks protocols and network architectures. (Capability 5 and 7)
  4. Deploy the components of cloud computing models and network architecture and service virtualization in a simulated environment. (Capability 4 and 5)
  5. Work collaboratively as a team to apply the principles and tools of service virtualization and their advantages to a simulated organization case. (Capability 5 and 7)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Assignments 20% Individual Coursework
Midterm test 20% Individual Test
Quizzes 10% Individual Coursework
Laboratories 30% Group & Individual Coursework
Course project 20% Group Coursework
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4 5
Assignments
Midterm test
Quizzes
Laboratories
Course project

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15-point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in every 15 points they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect 2 hours of lectures, a 1-hour tutorial, 3 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 4 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including labs to complete/receive credit for components of the course.
Lectures will be available as recordings. Other learning activities including labs will not be available as recordings.
Exam timetables are normally published online during the mid-semester break of the relevant semester. At that point, you will also learn the mode for each of your exams, e.g., if it will be a remote/online exam, or an on-campus exam.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Learning resources include:
- Suggested textbooks (non-mandatory; available as e-resources at UoA Library). 
- A Talis reading list (will be available on Canvas).
- WireShark application (free to download; you are encouraged to use it on your own device).
- Access to a commercial cloud provider platform student edition.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

This 2025 version of Infosys 304 Information Technology Infrastructure strengthens the role of foundational concepts about the technical processes and the technology that allows us to process, transmit, route, receive, deliver, and store information in digital format. To such effect, the course adheres to recommendations contained in the ACM/AIS 2020 IS Curriculum.  
The course has two major and differentiated components: the lecture and the lab activities. Students are encouraged to attend both as they complement each other to make the learning process effective. 
Students are also reminded that Infosys 3034 is neither an online course nor its delivery occurs online. 

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.

Published on 18/11/2024 10:59 a.m.