1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

IT203 Business Applications & Systems 2
10 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisite: IT103 Business Applications and Systems I
Assessment: Examination/Assignments
A first year subject in the Bachelor of Information
Technology.
0 bjedives
To train students to:
develop a simple business application using a
microcomputer package;
specify the data inputs, file Contents and information
requirements for common production systems such as
job cost and bill of materials;
specify data that needs to be used to integrate common
business applications and to be able to achieve this on
the computer; . -
explain how systems are justified, developed,
implemented and maintained.
Content
Data base management concepts file concepts, reporting tool
Dbase III+, Dbase IV or related DBMS.
Systems development concepts packages v. Tailored, systems
life cycle, prototyping, professional development v. user
development.
Internal controls developing effective internal controls and
audit trails.
Justification and selection of systems.
Production systems job cost, bill of materials.
Systems implementation, operation and maintenance.
Types of application systems transaction - general purpose
and vertical market, decision support and expert systems -
examination of the necessary hardware, software and people
resources required.
Data transportability micro-mainframe links, PC to PC
links, integrated software.
Case study presentations.
Recommended Reading
Gelinas, U.J., Jr., Orarn, A.E., & Wiggins, W.P., Accounting
Information Systems, 2nd edn, South-Western Publishing Co.,
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1993
Wilkinson, J.W., Accounting and Information Systems, 3rd edn,
John Wiley, 1992
Senn, J.A., Information Systems in Management, 4th edn,
Wadsworth, 1990
IT223 Management Problem Solving
4 hours per week Assessment assignment and examination
Prerequisite: nil
A first year elective subject in the Bachelor of Information
Technology
0 b jedives
To broaden students' understanding of different types of
problems arising in business and industry
To provide students with necessary skills to formulate,
solve, interpret and implement the solutions to those
problems
Content
Matrices.
Matrix manipulation, inverse of a matrix, matrix solution of
equations.
Decision theory; classification of decision problems;
decision trees and related topics.
Multicriteria decision models.
Forecasting; definitions, requirements, time series
forecasting, moving averages, exponential smoothing and
their applications.
Markov process, definition of stochastic systems, transient
and steady systems, first time package.
Queueing theory; classification of queueing systems, basic
queueing models, other queueing models.
IT301 Systems Software 1
16.5 credit points 27 hours over3 weeks Hawthorn
Prerequisites: succes$ul completion of segments one and two
Assessment: examination and assignment
A Bachelor of Information Technology subject studied at
the end of 1st year, during the Summer Semester.
0 bjedives
To develop an understanding of the fundamental
~rinci~les of operating systems so as to promote a more
efficient use of the resources orovided in the comoutine
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environment, and to prepare for more in-depth studies
in later systems software subjects.
To develop an understanding of how these principles
apply to a specific general purpose operating system
such as UNIX and IBM's MVS.
Content
Operating system principles introduction, operating system
services, file systems, process scheduling, memory
management, virtual memory, storage system scheduling,
deadlocks, job and task management, protection.
A user and structural overview of UNIX including process
management and the file system. The main components of
IBM's MVS, including the job entry subsystem, the
supervisor, data facility product, virtual store. Job control
language is also practically covered.
Recommended Reading
To be advised.
IT302 Organisation Behaviour (OB)
17 credit points 18 hours over 3 weeks *Hawthorn
Prereauisite: IT105 Behaviour and Communication in
Organisations Assessment: Assignments, Group Project,
Test
A Bachelor of Information Technology subject studied at
the end of 1st year, during the Summer Semester.
0 b jedives
It enables students to learn how to apply the theory and
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