Courses & Units

Network Administration and Security KIT216

Introduction

This unit builds on the fundamentals of distributed networked environments explored in KIT111 Data Networks and Security and extends your knowledge of internetworking standards to consider advanced topics such as network scalability, quality of service, reliability and fault tolerance, efficiency, and security. It will equip you with an understanding of: the OSI model framework; switching concepts, switch security (including access control and identifying LAN security threats), VLANs and inter-VLAN routing, trunking and dynamic trunking, loop-free topologies with spanning tree protocols, link aggregation and automatic negotiation, dynamic addressing with first-hop redundancy protocols for reliability and fault tolerance. Practical activities include the configuration and analysis of real networking hardware coupled with investigation of complex scenarios and topologies through simulation.

Summary

Unit name	Network Administration and Security
Unit code	KIT216
Credit points	12.5
College/School	College of Sciences and Engineering School of Information and Communication Technology
Discipline	Information & Communication Technology
Coordinator	Mr Tony Gray
Available as an elective?	Yes
Delivered By	University of Tasmania

Availability

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Learning Outcomes

Explain network and security techniques, standards, and practices
Apply industry standard techniques to configure network infrastructure and protocols for efficiency, security and reliability
Analyse faults and configuration errors in networking infrastructure and protocols

Fee Information

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Requisites

Prerequisites

KIT111

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	Weekly 1hr lectorial Weekly 2hr theoretical content (Networking/Security) delivered asynchronously through MyLO Weekly 2hr tutorial (Networking/Security) For this unit, students are expected to attend on-campus tutorials.
Assessment	MyLO Quiz (20%)\|Network Device Configuration (20%)\|Structured Network Design (20%)\|Tutorial Practical Demonstrations (40%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable \| View the full unit timetable

Teaching Pattern

Weekly 1hr lectorial

Weekly 2hr theoretical content (Networking/Security) delivered asynchronously through MyLO

Weekly 2hr tutorial (Networking/Security)

For this unit, students are expected to attend on-campus tutorials.

Assessment

MyLO Quiz (20%)|Network Device Configuration (20%)|Structured Network Design (20%)|Tutorial Practical Demonstrations (40%)

Timetable

View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes.
Links	Booktopia textbook finder

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