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This course introduces the development tools for designing and creating custom applicants, using products like PL/SQL procedural programs, and developer products such as Procedure Builder, Form Builder, Report Builder, Graphic Builder. Students use Oracle client/server database application to complete several database projects.

This course introduces the students to administration of industry-standard database software and the role of a Database Administrator (DBA). Students are exposed to major topics such as installation and configuration of database software and its components; server and database maintenance; optimization and troubleshooting; backup and restore strategies; import and export of data; database security; managing users and roles, and their permissions; and implementation of high availability with mirroring. Students will attain DBA skills and will be in a better position to help solve complex business problems in their chosen careers.

This course offers students an overview of information security planning and staffing. Students learn about key issues for protecting information assets, determining the levels of protections, and for responding to security incidents using the latest technologies. Students learn authentication techniques and how to distinguish different types of attacks and malicious codes. This course provides the information and skills necessary for students to take the Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification exam.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the overall investigative process of computer forensics as well as the tools and techniques used. Students are introduced to the steps necessary to detect intruders, discover damage, and identify the offending intruder. The documentation of an incident response plan will also be taught. This course provides students with the information and skills necessary to take the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (ACIS) certification exam.

In this course, the relationship between information technology and the fundamental processes driving the business enterprise are evaluated. The course aims to reorient students from a “business as usual” approach to information systems toward an integrated, cross-functional reassessment of the critical processes of the firm. The role of information technology as both an objective of and a participant in effective change is emphasized in relation to crucial organizational, managerial, and cultural factors. Students work as members of project teams to analyze case studies of actual reengineering efforts and to participate in original prototype exercises.

Under the guidance of a faculty advisor, students in their final semester are required to utilize their full scope of training and academic abilities in the design and development of an individualized computer-based management information system intended for business use. The project entails system conceptualization, detailed documentation, design, writing and testing of student written software, hardware specifications, user training manuals and other support and background materials. Students also are required to “sell” the project results at a formal presentation to fellow seminar members and faculty Projects and teams are critiqued on the basis of content, approach, and degree of professionalism.