IT Infrastructure
Information Technology Infrastructure
Credit Hours: 3 (3-0)
Prerequisites:
Computer
Communication and Networks
Course Outline:
Definition of IT Infrastructure, Non-functional
Attributes, Availability Concepts, Sources of Unavailability, Availability Patterns.
Performance. Security Concepts.
Data centers. Servers: Availability, Performance, Security.
Networking: Building Blocks,
Availability, Performance, Security. Storage: Availability, Performance, Security. Virtualization:
Availability, Performance, Security. Operating Systems: Building Blocks,
Implementing Various OSs, OS
availability, OS Performance, OS Security. End User Devises: Building
Blocks, Device Availability,
Performance, Security. IT Infrastructure Management. Service Delivery Processes. Service
Support Processes. Ethics,
Trends, organizational and technical issues related to IT
infrastructure.
Reference
Materials:
1.
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts
by Sjaak Laan, Lulu.com (November
5, 2011). ISBN-10: 1447881281.
2.
IT
Infrastructure and its Management by
Prof Phalguni Gupta, Tata McGraw
Hill Education Private Limited (October 6, 2009). ISBN-10:
0070699798.
3.
IT
Architecture For Dummies by
Kalani Kirk Hausman and Susan Cook, For Dummies; 1st Edition (November 9,
2010). ISBN-10: 0470554231.
4.
IT
Architectures and Middleware: Strategies for Building Large, Integrated
Systems by Chris Britton and Peter Bye, Addison-Wesley
Professional; 2nd
Edition (June 3, 2004). ISBN-10: 0321246942
Week
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Description
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Book
Name
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Page no
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Week
1 |
Defining
an Enterprise, Finding the Best Solution, Providing Leadership, Using
Maturity Models, identifying data requirements, Defining technical standards,
Knowing the Roles of Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise architecture
frameworks, Standardizing Your Platform, Making the Hard Software Choice:
Open Source or Closed Source, Reducing Complexity through, Standardization
and Consolidation. |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
1-24 |
|
Week
2 |
IT
building blocks, infrastructure model, applications building block,
Recognizing Complexity in the Enterprise, Planning for Consolidation,
Addressing Concerns about Standardization, Consolidating the Data Center,
Automating the Data Center, Planning Enterprise Information Security,
Creating a Security Plan, Developing a Security Policy, Using Technology to
Support Security Operations |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
24-32 |
|
Week
3 |
Non-functional
attributes, Availability concepts, Complying with Mandates and Managing Risk,
Keeping Your Company Compliant, planning to Manage Risk, Addressing Risk,
Developing Identity and Access Management Strategies, Identifying Users,
Authenticating Users, Security Concepts, CIA classification, Cryptography,
Denial of service, using root kits, Cryptographic attacks, Security Patterns,
Separation of duties, Ethical hacking |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
42-48 |
|
Week
4 |
Planned
maintenance, Physical defects, environmental issues, complexity of
infrastructure, Employing Groupware, Working with Enterprise Portals,
Identifying Classes of Communication, Community Sites, Conferencing,
Broadcast Communications |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
48-48 |
|
Week
5 |
Performance
concepts, benchmarking, prototyping, user profiling, performance testing(load, stress,
endurance), performance patterns, caching, |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
48-74 |
|
Week
6 |
Web
proxies, operational data store, load balancing, Network Attached Storage,
grid computing Storage availability, Performance and security. Data center
building blocks, location of datacenter, physical construction, Power Supply,
cooling, Fire Suppression, Racks, Data Center, Cabling and patching, Data
center availability, Performance and security, |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
74-80 |
|
Week
7 |
Capacity
management, security concepts, Servers building blocks, main frame platform,
midrange platform, x86 platform, server availability, performance and
security. Networking Building blocks, OSI reference Model, |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
80-90 |
|
Week
8 |
Attack
vectors, Malicious code(worms, virus,
trojan horse), Denial of service attack (Daniel of service, distributed
denial of service), social engineering, phishing, Baiting, security patterns,
identify and access management, segregation of duties and least privilege,
layered security, cryptography, |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
90-102 |
|
MID
EXAM |
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Week
9 |
Hash
functions and digital signatures, cryptographic attacks, architecture
building blocks, data centers, data center building blocks (sub equipment
room SER, Main equipment room MER, location of data center, physical
structure, |
IT Infrastructure
Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
102-115 |
|
Week
10 |
Availability
tiers, redundant data centers, Operating systems, operation system building
blocks, implementation of various OS, Z/OS, open VMS, UNIX, LINUX, Windows,
operating system availability, Performance and security, End user devices
building blocks. End user devices availability, performance and security. |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
115-124 |
|
Week
11 |
Reviewing
Hardware Update Strategies, Planning for Sub-System Updates, Planning
Software Updates, Planning Security Strategies, Identifying Threats to the
Enterprise, Selecting Appropriate Countermeasures |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
124-136 |
|
Week
12 |
Networking
building blocks, OSI reference model, networking layers, Challenges for
Redesigning an Existing Enterprise, Dealing with Lack of Executive Support,
Integrating Legacy Systems, Dealing with Separate Revenue Streams,
Low-Hanging Fruit” Opportunities. |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
136-172 |
|
Week
13 |
Network
virtualization, Virtual LAN (VLAN), Virtual extendable network VXLAN, Virtual
NICs, Virtual switch, Software defined networking SDN, network function
virtualization |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
172-182 |
|
Week
14 |
Network
availability , Layered network topology, spine and leaf topology, network
teaming, the spanning tree protocol multihoming, network performance,
Nielsen’s law, throughput and
bandwidth, Latency, Qualify of service
(QoS), WAN link compression, Congestion management, Queue management, Link
efficiency, Traffic shaping |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
182-193 |
|
Week 15 |
Network
security, Firewalls, Packet filtering, proxy, application layer firewalls,
stateful inspection, IDS(intrusion
Detection system)/IPS (Intrusion Prevention system), Network based IDS
(NIDS), Host based IDS (HIDS), statistical anomaly based IDS and signature
based IDS, De-Militarized Zone, screened subnet, perimeter network, back to
back DMZ, Trihomed DMZ, Remote authentication dial in user service (RADIUS),
Network Access Control (NAC) |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
193-198 |
|
Week 16 |
Storage
in infrastructure model, Drum memory, tapes, controllers, direct attached
storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN),network attached storage (NAS),
object storage, software defined storage, storage availability, redundancy
and data replication, storage replication, backup and recovery (full backup,
incremental backups, differential backups, continuous data protection CDP), archiving |
IT
Infrastructure Architecture: Infrastructure building blocks and concepts |
198-236 |
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FINAL
EXAM Here is the links for lectures https://pern-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/rabiashahid_gcwuf_edu_pk/EWFI4eFhGTVNjd8qp_AtjikB87YU4VFudFYoei4k96gcxw?e=FeeIZn |
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