Marketing as a concept is so ubiquitous in organisations that a marketing orientation extends well beyond the marketing department. The Information Technology student will inevitably encounter Marketing opportunities and challenges. This module seeks to enable students apply classic and contemporary marketing tools and concepts.
This module gives students the skills and techniques to setup, administer and maintain a network based on Computers/Servers running the Linux Operating System, a predominant Operating System for Server based Systems and services.
Brief description of aims and content: Web Security can be described as a way of securing the web infrastructure such that the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of content and user information is maintained. In other words, it’s the ability to secure a collection of application-layer services used to distribute content such as: Web content (HTML), Multimedia, Email, Instant messaging
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Introduction to web security: they will also learn security at different layers such as: Secure Socket Layer (SSL).Different web security issues will also be studied such as: Cookies, Dynamic Content, web server security, web content (client side), spywares, Application/plugins, malicious content injection, etc. Students will have an opportunity to apply and practice this knowledge through a series of programming languages like: JAVA, Oracle, etc
Cloud computing systems today, whether open-source or used inside companies, are built using a common set of core techniques, algorithms, and design philosophies. The students will learn about fundamental distributed computing "concepts" for cloud computing including among others:
- Clouds, MapReduce, key-value stores
- Classical precursors
- Widely-used algorithms
- Classical algorithms
- Scalability
- Trending areas
This module on research methodology aims to assist students to plan well and execute their final year projects. It addresses the essential concerns of the structure, conduct and reporting of research that necessarily includes proposal writing also. It covers the constituent considerations and ordering of problem identification, assumptions, justification, scope, limitations, organization, literature review and information sources, objectives, hypothesis setting and testing, research questions, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, research design, design of experiments (including manufacture of prototype or experimental rig), sampling, research methods, data collection methods, field tools and techniques, techniques of data measurement, statistical as well as computer supports for data analysis, interpretations, conclusions, recommendations and implications as well as financial and time budgeting (Scheduling and Gantt Charts). Technical report writing and approaches to referencing are also given emphasis