Course Contents

Teaching Material: 

Week 1 Definition if IT Infrastructure, Nonfunctional Attributes, Availability Concepts, Sources of Unavailability, Availability Patterns.
Week 2 Performance during Infrastructure Design, Sources of Performance Metrics, Performance Pattern
Week 3 Risk Management, Cryptography, Computer Crime, Security Patterns
Week 4 Datacenter Introduction and History, Building Blocks, Datacenter Availability, Datacenter Security 
Week 5 Networking Building Blocks, Availabiity, Performance
Week 6 Storage History, Availability, Performance, Security
Week 7 Virtualization History, Availability, Performance, Security
Week 8 Operating System Building Blocks, Implementing various Operating Systems
Week 9 Operating System  Availability, OS Performance, OS Security
Week 10 End User Devices Introduction and History, Building Blocks
Week 11 Device Availability, Performance, Security
Week 12 Infrastructure Hosting options, Enterprise Infrastructure Deployment, Software-defined Datacebter SDDC, Hyper-converged Infrastructure
Week 13 Cloud definition, Cloud Characteristics, Cloud Deployment Models, Cloud Service Models, Infrastructure as Code
Week 14 Purchasing Infrastructure and Services, Choice of Suppliers, Bidding and Tendering, Ordering, Delivery, Warranty, Renewal
Week 15 Assembling the Infrastructure, Testing the Infrastructure, Go Live Scenarios
Week 16 System Management Processes, Monitoring, Management using SNMP, Logging, Capacity Management