Infrastructure Management

Question 1 [6 marks]:

Define and explain the concept of the following terminologies:

  • IS concepts and classification.
  • Big data analytics.
  • Change data capture.
  • ETL, RDBMSs.
  • Hadoop and MapReduce.
  • Internet of Things.

Question 2 [4 mark]:

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Describe the differences among 3G, 4G, and 5G (do your own research on 5G).

Question 3 [5 marks]:

Study “Researchers Use Genomics and Big Data in Drug Discovery”  in your text book [Chapter 3, IT at Work 3.2] and answer the following questions:

  • What are the consequences of new drug development failures?
  • What factors have made biomedical analytics feasible? Why?
  • Large-scale big data analytics are expensive. How can the drug makers justify investments in big data?
  • Why would drug makers such as Glaxo and Pfizer be willing to share data given the fierce competition in their industry?

RATIONALE

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This assessment task will assess the following learning outcome/s:

  • be able to investigate, analyse and evaluate the impact of new and current ICT services to an organisation.
  • be able to understand that effective IT Infrastructure Management requires strategic planning with alignment from both the IT and business perspectives in an organisation.
  • be able to demonstrate the technical and communications skills that contribute to ICT governance in an organisation.

Learning Outcomes

1. be able to describe the business value and processes of ICT services in an organisation and understand the knowledge and skills of an enterprise architect in the workplace;

  1. be able to investigate, analyse and evaluate the impact of new and current ICT services to an organisation;
  2. be able to understand that effective IT Infrastructure Management requires strategic planning with alignment from both the IT and business perspectives in an organisation;
  3. be able to demonstrate the technical and communications skills that contribute to ICT governance in an organisation;

5. be able to synthesise the key theoretical concepts with the technical and management issues in delivering ICT services to an organisation.