1.  Students will be able to understand fundamental network-
based IT infrastructure concepts and the design and 
implementation of IT infrastructure. 
2.  Students will learn how organizational needs and 
imperatives influence technical decisions about IT 
infrastructure.  
3.  Students will be able to understand the security 
implications and tradeoffs associated with design choices in 
IT infrastructure. They will also learn about the 
cybersecurity challenges and approaches associated with 
specific IT infrastructure design choices.   
4.  Students will be able to understand the Open Systems 
Interconnection (OSI) network model spanning the application, 
transport, internet, network, and physical layers. 
5.  Students will be able to understand TCP/IP applications 
and their varied architectures (e.g., cloud computing and 
client-server), their connection to data management (with an 
emphasis on big data and data streams). 
6.  Students will learn about the physical components of 
Internet backbone and last-mile networks as well as the 
associated protocols. 
7.  Students will learn about how the design of various IT 
infrastructure components affects their security, performance, 
and scalability. 
8.  Students will learn about the interdependencies among 
scalability in infrastructure, data, and applications. 
9.  Students will learn about the implications of IT 
infrastructure design at the enterprise level for application 
layer-level design choices. 
10. Students will learn about capacity planning, load 
balancing, and virtualization. In-class exercises and cases 
will be used to demonstrate the application of the themes in 
the course.   

1.  The course will cover fundamental concepts, design, 
implementation, and security of network-based IT infrastructure. 
It will follow the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) network 
model spanning the application, transport, internet, network, 
and physical layers. 
2.  The course will cover all three facets of modern IT 
portfolios: Foundational IT infrastructure, TCP/IP 
applications, and data. The emphasis will be on how these 
facets are influenced by the business needs and priorities of 
an organization.   
3.  Physical layer: Students will learn about the physical 
components of Internet backbone and last-mile networks and the 
associated protocols. 
4.  Network and Transport layers: Students will understand the 
standard Internet protocols. 
5.  Security implications:  Students will examine the 
strengths and weaknesses of TCP/IP and how to design and 
manage a system from both the client and server side. The 
security implications and tradeoffs associated with each 
architectural design choice for IT infrastructure at various 
levels of the overall IT portfolio will be covered.   
6.  Architecture: Students will learn about the security, 
performance, and scalability implications of various 
enterprise-level IT infrastructure design choices and 
application layer-level architectural design choices (e.g., 
cloud computing versus client-server). 
7.  Scalability: Students will learn about vertical versus 
diagonal scalability in infrastructure, data, and applications

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