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The Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) focuses on delivering knowledge and skills in contemporary IT areas , such as analytics, application development, cybersecurity and computer networking to meet the current IT industry needs. The Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems course ensures that graduates develop a broad and coherent body of knowledge in the underlying principles and concepts of information technology. BITS allows students to explore and identify critical IT industry demands and understand how these demands are met.
The BITS course at VIT is designed to produce graduates with a strong industry focus who have demonstrated the full range of knowledge and skills gained through a relevant capstone project in the final year.
Students will explore various units throughout the course, including programming, database, security, networking and IT Project Management. Practical learning opportunities, such as real-world projects and industry internships, allow students to apply their knowledge and gain valuable experience in the field.
Under the guidance of experienced faculty members, students will delve into emerging technologies and industry trends, developing a solid foundation in IT concepts. The course also emphasises developing essential soft skills, enhancing communication, teamwork, and problem-solving abilities.
Upon completing the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems, graduates will be well-prepared to pursue diverse IT career paths, ranging from software developers to cybersecurity analysts and systems administrators. Join us at VIT and embark on an exciting journey towards a successful and rewarding career in information technology.
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Course Code: ICA70112
CRICOS Code: 085576A
Duration: 3 years (full time)
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The BITS degree offers units across the wide spectrum of the Information Technology discipline, including the study of hardware, software, networking, security, database, and programming technologies and includes relevant cognitive, technical and communication skills.
Students who successfully complete the requirements as stated above will be awarded the degree “Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems” along with specialisation name.
A total of 24 units (144 credit points) will satisfy the requirements for qualification.
Graduation Requirements
The Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems course at VIT offers a well-structured curriculum that combines theoretical knowledge with hands-on learning experiences. Over the course of three years, students will undertake a diverse range of units to build a strong foundation in IT and its applications.
The unit introduces modern programming concepts and techniques that are required to implement software programs in a variety of application areas. The unit covers the basic theory of creating algorithms and program design in object-oriented programming paradigm. Students will gain practical skills to develop general software programs which form essential building blocks for a variety of application environments such as Web and desktop applications.
This unit will prepare you over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues and changing demands relevant to software development. Fundamentals will be presented in a form that will enable you to keep pace with the speed of programming methodology/language changes that are experienced in this rapidly changing field.
The unit covers the underlying theory and basic concepts of relational data modelling, query languages and database design. You will develop the knowledge and skills necessary for the effective design and implementation of database systems that satisfy the data management requirements of an enterprise. The unit will also address the various issues and techniques of data management, including retrieval, update, integrity, privacy and security aspects associated with data access, manipulation and administration.
This unit will help you develop a sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to database fundamentals. Unification of multiple data sources is central to the ‘big data’ paradigm likely to dominate design over the coming decades. You will be prepared to critically evaluate and understand database issues as they arise in practice over the coming years. This unit provides the foundation for such understanding.
The unit covers the fundamental concepts of network architecture and network technologies. It includes internetworking protocols, operational tools, and techniques for network management. The unit provides the in-depth knowledge and skills that are required to implement defined network architecture that factors various types of networks, inter-networking, and network security.
Implementation of appropriate network architectures is now crucial for the full exploitation of IT infrastructure within competitive environments. This unit is designed to ensure you have the fundamental knowledge to adapt and innovate within this context and be prepared for specialised units of the course. Through undertaking this unit, you will broaden your knowledge and understanding of the issues relevant to network architecture.
This unit introduces the underlying theories and mechanisms of modern computer systems and networks. It provides the fundamental knowledge of the hardware, software, data and network technologies of computer systems and the skills required for the operation of computer systems and networked environments. You will gain critical knowledge and application of how various components of computer systems and networks work together in various architectures and operating system environments.
You will be prepared over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to computer systems and networking. Resolution of such issues is critical in a changing environment, as is seen in the impact on networking resulting from the rise of mobile device usage.
The unit provides a theoretical introduction to the professional and ethical practices in a typical IT workplace of today. In particular, the unit emphasises organisational and professional communication and teamwork, ensuring that the personal information of stakeholders is handled in a confidential and professional manner when dealing with stakeholders in an IT environment. It also covers a range of issues related to health and safety requirements in the IT workplace, maintaining professionalism as well as software copyright requirements and licencing.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound understanding of the issues relevant to IT professional practice. As IT becomes more and more central to organisational operations, the need to maintain ethical and professional practice becomes increasingly paramount. This unit ensures a fundamental understanding of the issues and theories that drive Ethics, Data Privacy and Security in professional practice.
You will be prepared to demonstrate writing of effective business communication artefacts such as letters, memos, proposals, formal and informal reports, work plans, and progress reports. You will be able to use the knowledge and skills imparted in this unit to your IT work situations resulting in better-quality software documentation/operation manuals, improved interpersonal communications with peers and customers.
This unit focuses on providing you with basics of software systems modelling and design principles and methodologies to formalise all aspects of systems development processes. It will develop your ability to apply contemporary tools and techniques that are effectively used at various stages of software systems development lifecycle.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to systems analysis and design. Being a second-year level unit, increased emphasis is placed on critical analysis and interpretation skills. In the context of systems analysis and design, this includes consideration of the pros and cons of various techniques, considered through contemporary research in published articles.
The unit presents an integrated approach covering systems and processes for managing IT projects within various industry sectors. It covers the IT project management life cycle, problem definition, project planning, project scheduling and estimation, project monitoring and controlling including earned value management techniques, risk management, project issues and project closing. You will also be able to apply conceptual methodologies using techniques such as networking, resource planning and control, team coordination, time and budget estimation using estimation models, project monitoring via earned value management tools including a range of management strategies.
You will be prepared over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to IT project management. Due reference will be made to the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) to facilitate your fundamental understanding of project management principles and theory.
The unit teaches the use of discrete structures, their properties, and applications in the field of information technologies. The unit also exposes you to the basic procedures and styles of mathematical proofs related to computational machines. The unit teaches a range of computational mathematics topics such as logic, number system, set theory, methods of proof, predicate calculus, induction, trees, and graph theory.
You learn techniques to think and analyse computational requirements “logically”, and to apply these techniques in solving problems. You will be able to reason “mathematically” about data types and structures (such as numbers, sets, graphs, and trees) used in algorithms and to synthesize elementary proofs, especially proofs by induction.
The unit is designed for undergraduate level students to enhance their scholarship through research-based study on a topic in information technology. The unit develops the core essentials of understanding the research process, research methodologies and research methods directed towards technical research, covering key elements such as the literature survey, defining research question, experimental design, etc.
You will gain a fundamental experience in doing some preliminary research work and will be able to apply the best practices introduced in the unit to further your research in IT area.
The unit is designed to give final year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have gained throughout the course. This unit is the first of two project units in the course, and it focuses more on analysis and design, while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will be required to design a technology solution for the identified problem. You will showcase your abilities in project management and demonstrate the use of structured methodology in IT projects.
You will work in groups to produce individual quality outputs including a comprehensive report, presentation and in some cases a solution prototype. Your team will extend the project in ITSU3009 Project 2 with detailed technical implementation or investigation. In addition to technical skills, you will also gain other important skills including project management, professional practice, teamwork, and effective communication.
The unit is designed to give final-year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have learned throughout the course. This unit is the second of two project units in the course where the first unit focuses more on analysis and design while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will form a group to work together and provide a feasible solution to the client. Project teams are responsible for their own project management with guidance from the project supervisor.
You will gain skills of technical design and implementation, innovative use of new technologies in IT, writing technical documentation, teamwork, time management, professional ethics, and effective communication to produce quality outputs meeting the client requirements.
The unit is designed to give final year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have gained throughout the course. This unit is the first of two project units in the course, and it focuses more on analysis and design, while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will be required to work in an industry workplace and design a technology solution for the client. You will showcase your abilities in project management and demonstrate the use of structured methodology in IT projects.
You will work in groups to produce individual quality outputs including a comprehensive report, presentation and in some cases a solution prototype. Your team will extend the project in ITSU3019 Professional Project 2 with detailed technical implementation or investigation. In addition to technical skills, you will also gain other important skills including project management, professional practice, teamwork, and effective communication.
The unit is designed to give final-year students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills which they have learned throughout the course. This unit is the second of two project units in the course where the first unit focuses more on analysis and design while the second unit focuses on implementation aspects. The project provides a real-world IT problem, and each member of the project team will play a role substantially related to your chosen specialisation in the course. You will from a group to work together in an industry workplace and provide a feasible solution to the client. Project teams are responsible for their own project management with guidance from the project supervisor.
This unit covers the core concepts of data science and data driven decision making processes. The unit introduces a comprehensive range of methods which include developing a data model, data pre-processing, dimensionality reduction, probability techniques, descriptive and inferential statistics, and regression analysis. It further discusses effective ways of presenting visualisations and reports to the management, clients or investors and how useful insights can be derived from these sources. Through a series of case examples, the unit equips you to perform data analysis, apply appropriate methods and derive useful insights to help businesses make informed decisions.
On completing the unit, you will be able to use data science tools and techniques in a real-world context and will be capable of deriving useful insights through data analysis and visualisation. You will be able to research into emerging techniques and models over time and adopt these new techniques for data analysis and decision making.
This unit provides a concise introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Key topics such as knowledge representation, logic, reasoning and learning algorithms are introduced with relevant practical examples. The unit discusses the types of environments and types of agent representations. The unit makes application-oriented discussions on reasoning and learning systems that will enable students to develop intelligent agents that find application in areas such as games development, expert systems natural language processing and pattern recognition.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to artificial Intelligence. Being a second-year level unit, increased emphasis is placed on critical analysis and interpretation skills. As artificial intelligence is an emerging topic, within this degree program, you are required to understand principles and applications in the context of the latest published models.
There is an increasing demand in industry for the use of IT in analytics and data science due to the availability of large amounts of data and its effectiveness in predicting future trends for making informed decisions. This unit imparts hands on skills using selected sets of tools (e.g., spreadsheets, special programming languages and statistical toolkits) through coding exercises, case studies and projects in analytics. The unit also covers Business Intelligence (BI) and visualisation tools and discusses software libraries that are used in Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) software.
Upon completion of this unit, you will gain expertise in employing popular analytics software and IT tools to domains such as data and business analytics to enhance the business decision making process. The selection of tools can vary depending on the current technical landscape and market trends.
This unit provides an in-depth understanding of Machine Learning (ML) and will enable you to gain an intuitive understanding of the concepts and tools for building intelligent systems. The unit will help you to create and implement ML models using tasks such as linear regression. The unit teaches optimising techniques in Machine Learning built to tune key parameters and improve the accuracy of output. The unit covers stages of feature engineering, data point identification, design of classifier, use of regression models and neural network enhancements relevant to the nature of problems.
By mastering the theories and concepts delivered in this unit, you will be competent in adopting and applying ML algorithms such as regressions, support vector machines, artificial neural networks, and classifiers to real world case examples. Being a third-year unit, you will be equipped to research recent trends such as deep learning and ML-as-a-Service, along with other emerging techniques.
This unit introduces the concepts, tools and techniques used in website authoring. The unit focuses firstly on website design principles and subsequently deals with implementation. You will develop knowledge and skills in creating digital content which is authored to deal with the design and implementation issues of web publishing. The unit examines the use of mark-up and scripting programming languages and models as a website authoring suite, including incorporating images, audio and video into websites. In addition, the unit introduces World Wide Web standards for creating web sites, web usability and web design specification.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound practical understanding of the issues relevant to website development. Full understanding and appreciation of international standards and software tools will be supplemented with fundamental understanding of principles to ensure student adaptability and flexibility into the future.
This unit introduces the principles and concepts of Java programming language. It provides an overview of object-oriented design principles required to create robust Java programs. It covers salient topics of object-oriented programming methods using Java, including encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism and the standard software development practices in the IT industry.
You will be prepared over time to deepen your knowledge and understanding to ensure a sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to Java programming. Being a second-year level unit, increased emphasis is placed on critical analysis and interpretation skills. In the context of this unit, java programming expertise will be explored in the context of general programming good practice. Java programming is discussed and learned in the context of general programming language theory – identifying the key elements of Java that determine whether it is an appropriate programming tool.
This unit provides the fundamental principles of software testing and quality assurance. It covers practical software testing goals and approaches to test software through all phases of the software testing lifecycle. Topics include different testing terminologies, standards and metrics, types of testing (black-box and white-box), test planning, analysis, test case generation, test resources, test scheduling, test execution, test prioritisation, test automation and code reviews. You will acquire the necessary knowledge and skills of a professional software tester.
You will be prepared over time to broaden your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to software testing. This unit covers software testing within the context of the latest research in software quality assurance and reliability.
This unit introduces the discipline of software engineering with emphasis on a fundamental and broad coverage of various software engineering aspects including software development life cycle models, software analysis and modelling, design and architecture, software quality assurance and testing, software maintenance and reuse. You will acquire knowledge and skills in agile, scrum, DevOps, and professional ethics to perform the role of an effective Software Engineer in an enterprise project.
You will be prepared over time to broaden your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to software engineering. Being a second-year level unit, increased emphasis is placed on critical analysis and interpretation skills. You will apply your software development knowledge and problem-solving skills to put theories into practice.
The unit presents a comprehensive overview of data storage structures and associated algorithmic logic. The unit classifies data structures based on space and time constraints, such as lists, stacks, queues, tree structures and binary search trees. Implementation based on a variety of techniques like array and pointer based are taught using case scenarios. The unit also discusses topics such as sorting, searching and graph algorithms and discusses and compares their complexity and merits.
You will gain an in-depth understanding of computer programming practices and they would be able to use the knowledge for designing algorithms. You will apply your knowledge of data structures appropriately to solve computational problems.
This unit provides the principles of advanced Java programming using contemporary Java frameworks. It covers advanced capabilities of the Java programming language such as JDBC, Servlets, JSP and Web Services. The unit introduces architectural concepts such as MVC architecture and Object Relation Mapping frameworks and covers extensively implementation techniques using current frameworks. In addition, efficient programming for multithreading, event handling, and secure transactions for application development in an enterprise environment are covered.
You will gain expertise in implementing enterprise grade software solutions using industry frameworks and apply advanced Java programming language to solve complex real-world problems.
This unit provides advanced concepts in designing enterprise systems using corporate databases. The unit focusses on end-to-end solution building layered systems with sound database design and data management for application integration. It focuses on optimizing the database design and performance fine-tuning of data access and transactions for real-time application solutions deployed in different enterprise environments.
You will be prepared over time to deepen knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to developing data access solutions. Being a final year level unit, it is designed to ensure students undertake independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of the latest published research. Pivotal for this unit is an understanding of the impact of big data trends, bringing massive amounts of disparate data to bear in large and small organisations.
The unit introduces the basic concepts, tools and techniques of website authoring, from design to implementation as well as advanced Web based application design and development. The unit provides the knowledge and skills in creating digital content by covering topics such as use of markup and scripting programming languages and models as website authoring suite, including incorporating images, audio and video into websites, world wide web standards for creating dynamic database driven content, web usability and web design specification. Furthermore, it covers advanced architectural styles for client-server Web applications, and the rapid prototyping and Web deployment principles.
You will be prepared to apply advanced Web programming features for creating highly accessible and reliable Web applications in an enterprise development environment on a popular platform. Being a final year level unit, it is designed to ensure you undertake independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of the latest published research.
The unit provides a comprehensive coverage on the theories, principles and practices of Big Data with specific emphasis on processing big data sets. Key concepts related to Big Data including ingestion, storing, processing and analysing information from large volume of data. The unit covers Big Data key characteristics, forms of data and importance of metadata and processing techniques in RDBMS and NoSQL. In addition, this unit prepares you comprehensively on Big Data engineering through a variety of case studies on Big Data analysis techniques.
By covering major topics and trends in big data processing you acquire the skills that will equip you to handle abundant, rich, and complex data. You will be able to build solutions involving big data in a variety of business contexts using the data pipeline processing techniques you learnt and adopt your knowledge and skills to perform Data Mining, ETL operations, Statistical Analysis, and Visual analysis in real world contexts.
This unit provides the theoretical constructs underpinning small to medium size networks and covers the concepts of network types; network media; routing and switching. The unit introduces monitoring and managing design principles for computer networks, including performance evaluation, predicting and measuring network performance and layered structures of networks. The unit will also look at network interface layers, routing algorithms and protocols, network multicasting and wireless LAN technologies. You will acquire the knowledge and skills required to install, configure and troubleshoot, enterprise network monitoring and management software. This unit also discusses network management functions and architecture as well as protocols and tools used to effectively manage computer networks.
This is an advanced unit that examines design and infrastructure deployed in enterprises, multi-sites, data centres, Cloud and carrier networks. The subject covers large scale implementation technologies including Software Defined Networks (SDN), Proxies, WAN Optimizations, VoIP, Load Balancers and Content Delivery Networks. Topics include Internet of Things (IoT), MQTT and Fibre to the x (FFTX) and advance design issues including Identity Access Management (IAM) and Zero Trust.
You will be prepared over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to network infrastructure. Being a final year level unit, it is designed to ensure you undertake independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of practical industry case scenarios and incorporating trends from the latest published research.
This unit covers the advanced theory and practice of systems and network security. It exposes you to a range of cryptography problems in network infrastructure. Cryptography implementation of networks in enterprise systems including NAC, VPN, public keys and keys management are discussed.
You will develop advanced security skills including the range of cryptographic techniques and their implementations. The unit looks at various cryptography management issues, including the use and abuse of encryption, distributed systems authentication and integrity management. Being a final year level unit, it is designed to ensure you undertake an independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of the latest implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
The unit covers the principles of advanced routing and switching in enterprise networks. It delivers topics on how to plan, configure and verify the implementation of secure enterprise LAN and WAN routing solutions using a range of routing protocols and technologies to support branch offices and mobile workers. This unit also discusses how to plan, configure, and verify the implementation of complex enterprise switching solutions, secure integration of trunks and traffic flows, work with redundant links and monitor enterprise networks WAN.
You will be prepared over time to adapt your knowledge and understanding to ensure a sound theoretical and practical understanding of the issues relevant to advanced routing and switching in computer networks. This final-year unit is designed to provide you with an independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of the latest published research. In addition, you will practice an extensive range of routing and switching configurations on different networking devices using simulation platforms.
The unit covers the fundamentals and theoretical foundations of server administration. It provides you with the knowledge and skills required to perform server administration with an emphasis on key principles related to server hardware, software and storage, disaster recovery and trouble shooting. In addition, you will acquire practical skills needed to plan, install, configure, and manage servers through laboratory work and practical activities.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound theoretical and practical understanding of the issues relevant to server administration. Although server administration is an inherently applied subject, due consideration of fundamental issues will ensure you are well placed to adapt to future developments.
This unit introduces the underlying theories and mechanisms of modern computer operating systems. The unit initially covers the theories surrounding operating systems to provide a strong foundation on the roles and functions of operating systems, and then enlarges to a network operating systems context. You will gain a critical knowledge and application of how various components of computer systems and networks work in various operating system environments. This knowledge is essential for writing secure, high performance and network-based software services and applications. The unit also covers features of popular operating systems products to impart skills on administration and configuration of operating systems in corporate infrastructure.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to computer systems and networking. Resolution of such issues is critical in a changing environment, as evidenced by the impact on the networking resulting from the rise of mobile device usage.
This unit introduces the concept of server virtualisation with comprehensive inputs on theories, principles, and implementation. After covering the concept of virtualisation in enterprise server resources context, the unit explores virtualisation in the context of cloud systems. Through a set of practical exercises and examples you will gain skills required to implement, optimise, and manage virtual servers both in local networks as well as in cloud infrastructures. The unit also covers virtual machine migration and its security concerns, performance issues related to integrating virtual servers into a network and how cloud computing can produce an effective way of network management.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding over time to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to planning and implementing server virtualization. Whilst this is an inherently practical unit, it is concerned with issues of fundamentally higher complexity and cloud infrastructure enabling you to perform in real world settings over time.
This unit introduces contemporary Information Systems used in different industries and their associated risks and management. As an introductory unit within the information security domain, the unit will expose you to a comprehensive set of knowledge covering the threats, vulnerabilities, risks and security breaches related to Information Systems in real-world scenarios. In addition, the importance of understanding the requirements of deploying cyber security mitigation measures and cost benefits will also be introduced.
You will be able to apply the knowledge and skills introduced in the unit to identify security management standards and frameworks for developing secure and robust IT Systems. Over time, you will be able to specify countermeasures in case-based scenarios keeping in view the costs, complexities and user impact.
This unit offers you an opportunity to obtain a comprehensive understanding of cyber security related laws, policies, and implementation of cyber security frameworks for a variety of scenarios in global and local contexts. In this unit, you critically evaluate the requirements for implementing cyber security laws, policies and maintaining up-to-date countermeasures. The unit also presents case examples involving cyber related security incidents and how these violations were handled and risks mitigated through enforcement mechanisms.
Throughout this unit, you will be equipped to contextualise the legal provisions in the real world and ensure that IT implementations involving cyber technologies comply with relevant laws. Over time you will learn to identify appropriate policies, standards, practices, procedures, and guidelines that are required to be implemented in different countries.
This unit provides coverage of threat management methods including Isolation techniques of Quarantine and Sandboxing, Deep file analysis, Allowing or blocking files, restoration, backup, expert review, patch and end point management. The unit covers enterprise level antivirus, Network Access Controller and Endpoint Configuration Manager software.
You will over time be able to critically analyse and implement a threat management solution. As a level two unit, you will be exposed to established technologies that can be adopted for Security Threat Management.
The unit provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept, theory, principles, and practice of Digital Forensics. The field of Digital Forensics has moved beyond the mere investigation of computer crime to encompass a wide variety of criminal activities. In this context, the unit covers techniques such as data acquisition and validation, forensic methodologies, file systems examination, graphics file investigation, network and email investigation, legal issues, professionalism, and ethics to address cybercrimes.
At the completion of this unit, you will be capable of applying appropriate techniques to situations involving criminal or corporate investigation or breaches in IT security. You will also develop skills in communication, investigation, and problem resolution in practical contexts.
This unit provides the necessary mathematical and statistical foundations required by information technologists. After exploring various mathematical theories and models the unit identifies situations and applications to typical Information Technology case situations. The unit also prepares you with the necessary analytical skills to solve IT & Engineering problems encountered in your studies and in professional practice. In addition, the unit provides an understanding of the methods and principles of mathematics and the ability to apply these in everyday situations equipping you with the capacity to model data and to communicate essential results.
You will be prepared to adapt your knowledge and understanding to address Information Technology problems through mathematical methods. The foundations built in this unit will help you to apply these mathematical principles at higher level of studies in areas such as Networking, Software Development, Analytics, Data Design and Data Communications.
This unit covers the principles of technical documentation used in software engineering. It includes methods of writing systems specification documents, including graphical aids for depicting systems processes (analysis, planning, implementation, testing, and maintenance of systems).
You will be prepared to adapt over time your knowledge and understanding to ensure sound theoretical understanding of the issues relevant to software engineering technical documentation. Being a second-year level unit, increased emphasis is placed in this unit on critical analysis, interpretation skills and presentation skills. In the context of technical documentation for software engineers, this includes critical evaluation of different writing styles and documentation methods as referenced through research that is published in the latest journal articles.
This unit provides comprehensive coverage of cloud computing technologies across the various service provisioning models including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). The unit covers cloud services and provisions in a wide range of cloud-based applications including cyber security, networking, analytics and software development. Through the application of knowledge and skills imparted in the unit, you will deploy a range of cloud technologies and evaluate their elasticity and cost performance.
This unit covers the theory and practice of managing IT projects from a program and portfolio perspective. It includes topics on initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, and controlling and closing of IT projects. Using project scenarios drawn from different types of IT Projects such as Software Development projects and Network Implementation projects you will learn to define project cost, employ scheduling techniques, and to prepare change management processes. Case examples in IT Project Management from various industry sectors are discussed to provide a real world understanding of practical aspects of IT Project Management including managing contingencies and risks.
You will be prepared to deepen your knowledge and understanding to manage project life cycle using strategies for human resource management, procurement management, stakeholder and communication management. Being a final year level unit, it is designed to ensure that you undertake independent evaluation of unit principles in the context of the latest published research.
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"I want to express my sincere gratitude for your invaluable support throughout this course. As I near its conclusion, I feel compelled to share my feedback.First and foremost, Sharif has proven to be an exceptional and knowledgeable teacher. He consistently made himself available to assist students and address our concerns. When I commenced this course with limited knowledge of the IT industry, he went above and beyond to provide me with the necessary guidance. Sharif patiently explained fundamental IT concepts, terminologies, and technical jargon.
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"I deeply appreciate your extraordinary dedication to our online classes. Reflecting on my journey in the Diploma of Information Technology Networking course, I recall the initial challenges I encountered while grasping the material and completing assignments. However, your teaching prowess, interactive teaching style, and knack for making intricate topics engaging transformed my learning experience. Your commitment to fostering unity among students and your relentless pursuit of excellence distinguish you as an exceptional educator.
"I completed my first internship at VIT Melbourne, which was a transformative experience. It exposed me to exciting projects and exceptional individuals, allowing me to apply my knowledge in real-world situations and contribute ideas. This opportunity showcased trust in my abilities, for which I'm sincerely grateful. Throughout this journey, I gained practical skills, enhanced my diligence, and accumulated invaluable experience that will shape my future. My heartfelt thanks to Dr. Vo, Robert Walker, and our team coordinator, Dr. Sarath Rangarajan, for their unwavering support. Thank you, VIT internship team!"
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The Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) course is accredited by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the regulator of higher education and the accrediting authority for higher education courses in Australia. You may look up the National Register for this course. VIT is registered by TEQSA to offer and confer Australian higher education award for the completion of an accredited Australian course of study – BITS.
VIT’s Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems (BITS) is an undergraduate course at Australian Qualification Framework (AQF) Level 7.
The qualification conferred upon completion is recognised by the Australian Government and will provide you with a competitive edge in the job market, both in Australia and overseas.
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