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Subject aims
To train students to:
develop a simple business application using a micro-computer
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.
Subject description
Data base management concepts: file concepts, reporting
tool (Dbase Ill).
Systems development concepts: packages v Bespoke, systems
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life cycle, prototyping, professional development v user
u" development.
q Internal controls: developing effective internal controls and
p audit trails.
Justification and selection of systems.
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Production systems: job cost, bill of materials.
Systems implementation, operation and maintenance.
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%. 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.
systems integration - including general ledger, integrated
software.
Case study presentations.
IT222 Mathematics
10.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: four hours
Prerequisites: nil
Assessment: assignment and examination
An elective subject of the Bachelor of lnformation
Technology.
Subject description
Vectors and matrices; manipulation of vectors, linear
combination of vectors, linear independence and basis,
matrix manipulation, inverse of a matrix, matrix solution of
equations.
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.
Simulation; introduction to random number generators,
simulation techniques and some applications.
Forecasting; definitions, requirements, time series forecasting,
moving averages, exponential smoothing and their
applications.
Decision theory; classification of decision problems; decision
trees and related topics.
Multicriteria decision models.
1~301 Systems Software 1
16.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: twenty-seven houa for
three weeks
Prerequisites: successful completion of the
segments one and two
A first-year summer term subject of the Bachelor of
lnformation Technology degree.
Subject aims
To develop an understanding of the fundamental principles
of operating systems so as to promote a more efficient use
of the resources provided in the computing environment,
and to prepare for more in-depth studies in later systems
software units.
To develop an undentanding of how these principles apply
to a specific general purpose operating system such as IBM's
MVS.
Subject description
Operating system principles: introduction, operating system
services, file systems, process scheduling, memory
management, virtual memory, storage system scheduling,
deadlocks, job and task management, protection
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.
IT302 Organisation Behaviour (OB)
17.0 credit points
No. of hours per week: twenty-one hours for
three weeks
Instruction: an experiential model of learning is
utilised supported by appropriate reading
A first-year summer term subject of the Bachelor of
lnformation Technology degree.
Subject aim
The broad aim is to enable students to learn how to apply
the theory and skills of organisation behaviour and to
transfer that learning into information systems contexts.
Subject objectives are:
to enable students to develop a perspective which
demonstrates the place of IS departments in the total
organisation
to give an understanding of themselves, their impact on
others and of the way others influence their behaviour
to allow students to experience the satisfactions and
difficulties inherent in working in groups
to learn behavioural skills applicable to IS environments
to be able to analyse and provide solutions for
peopleHechnology problems
to enable students to make sense of interdepartmental
relations and suggest some way of overcoming
intergroup conflict
to apply OB knowledge to and further learn from
industry based learning experiences.
Subject description
Organisational socialisation; theories of managing people;
motivation; personal growth; career development; group
dynamics and team performance; managing multigroup
work; leadership; organisation culture and change; power
and influence; performance appraisal; managing
presentations.
IT303 Data Base Management S~tems 1
16.5 credit points
No. of hour; per week: twenty-seven hours for
three weeks
Prerequisites: IT202 COBOL Programming and
IT203 Business Applications and Systems 2
A first-year summer term subject of the Bachelor of
lnformation Technology degree.
Subject aims
To equip students with practical and theoretical knowledge
of database management systems so that they can work
productively on database applications (specifically relational
data bases).