Information Technology Management

Syllabus

Course Code: MS-109

Information Technology Management

Unit I                                                                                                                                              6 Hours

Information Technology: Components of IT Systems, Characteristics and Classification of Computers. Computer Architecture, Computer Memory: Types of Memory, Storage Devices, Mass Storage Systems. Concept of Cloud Computing, Data Centres and their Challenges. 

Unit II                                                                                                                                          14 Hours

Computer Software: Types of Software. System Software: Introduction to Operating System, Need, Functions and Types of Operating Systems. Introduction to GUI. Compiler, Interpreter and Assembler, Types of Computer Programming Languages. 

Application Software and their uses. Features of Good Software and Emerging Trends in Software Development. Spreadsheet and Presentation Software. Data Analysis using Excel. 

DBMS: Traditional File Concepts and Database Environment, Database Management Systems Concepts, Types of Data Models, ER Modeling, Integrity Constraints, SQL Queries.

Unit III                                                                                                                                         12 Hours

Data Communication and Networks: Concepts of Data Communication, Types of Data-Network Topologies, Network Architectures-The OSI Model, Inter-Networking Devices. The Internet, Intranet and Extranets: Internet Services, World Wide Web, Creating Web Pages using HTML.

Unit IV                                                                                                                                         10 Hours

Functional and Enterprise Systems: Data, Information and Knowledge Concepts, Decision Making Process, Concept and Classification of Information Systems. Security Issues in Information Technology, Emerging Trends in Information Technology: Block Chain, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Internet of Things and their Applications.