IT5017: Infrastructure Management Syllabus for IT 6th Sem 2019 Regulation Anna University (Professional Elective-II)

Infrastructure Management detailed syllabus for Information Technology (IT) for 2019 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IT students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Information Technology 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IT 6th Sem 2019 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to IT Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of infrastructure management is as follows.

Course Objective:

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Unit I

Introduction To Infrastructure
Introduction to IT Building Blocks – Infrastructure – Nonfunctional Attributes – Calculating Availability – Availability Percentages and Intervals – Mean Time Between Failures (MTBR) – Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) – Sources of Unavailability – Availability Patters -Introduction to Performance – Performance During Infrastructure Design – Performance of a Running System – Performance Patterns.

Suggested Activities:

• Identifying IT building blocks for various applications development.
• Flipped classroom on IT projects failure articles or white papers.
• Study of performance metrics for IT infrastructure.

Suggested Evaluation Methods:

• Presentation on IT building blocks.
• Quizzes on IT project articles white papers.
• Tutorials on IT infrastructure performance measure.

Unit II

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Unit III

Compute and Storage
Introduction – Compute Building Blocks – Memory – Interfaces – Compute Virtualization -Container Technology – Mainframes – Midrange Systems – X86 Servers – Supercomputers – Compute Availability – Compute Performance – Compute Security – Popular Operating Systems – Operating System Availability – Operating System Performance – Operating System Security – Storage Building Blocks – DAS – NAS – SAN – Software Defined Storage – Storage Availability – Storage Performance – Storage Security.

Suggested Activities:

• Discussion on compute and storage building blocks
• Flipped classroom on technical details of DAS, NAS and SAN.

Suggested Evaluation Methods:

• Quizzes on virtualization and compute performance.
• Presentation on technical details of DAS, NAS and SAN.

Unit IV

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Unit V

Infrastructure Security
Introduction – Risk Management – Risk Response – Exploits – Security Controls – Attack Vectors – Identity and Access Management – Segregation of Duties and Least Privilege -Layered Security – Cryptography – Monitoring – Vulnerability Patching – Go Live Process/Checklist – Decommissioning a Service/Device.

Suggested Activities:

• Study of risks associated with Infrastructure.
• Deployment of application with secured features.

Suggested Evaluation Methods:

• Quizzes on Infrastructure risks.
• Demonstration of security features in the deployed cloud application.

Course Outcome:

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Text Books:

1. SJaak Laan, “IT Infrastructure Architecture – Infrastructure Building Blocks and Concepts”, Third Edition, Lulu Press Inc, 2017.
2. Thomas Erl, Zaigham Mahmood, Ricardo Puttini, “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology and Architecture”, Prentice Hall, 2013.

References:

1. IBM, “Introduction to Storage Area Networks and System Networking”, Redbooks. 2012, https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/domains/san?Open&start=46.
2. Ray J. Rafael, “Cloud Computing: From Beginning to End”, Second Edition, Wiley, 2018.
3. Matthew Portnoy, “Virtualization Essentials”, John Wiley, 2012.
4. Lee Brotherson, Amanda Berlin, “Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for securing Infrastructure”, O”Reilly, 2017.
5. Microsoft, “Microsoft High Availability Overview”, White Paper, 2008.
6. Microsoft, “Overview of Failover Clustering with Windows Server 2008”, White Paper, 2007.
7. VMware, “Understanding Full Virtualization, Para-virtualization, and Hardware Assist”, White paper, 2007.

For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Information Technology 6th Sem, visit IT 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2019 regulation.

For all Information Technology results, visit Anna University IT all semester results direct link.