CIS 161 - Advanced Systems

5 Credits

This course introduces access control as applied to organizational domains, including the trust boundaries inherent to this infrastructure. Students explore the fundamentals of operating systems and the benefits of virtualization and public cloud environments.

Pre-requisite(s) CIS 160 min 2.0 and CIS 150 min 2.0
FeesAcademic Technology Fee

Quarters Typically Offered
Fall Day
Spring Day

Designed to Serve Students enrolled in CIS programs and industry professionals with computing experience.

Active Date 20250401T11:42:11

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 44 Lab 22
Total Contact Hours 66
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Operating System Basics
Virtual Machine Basics
Cloud Basics
Virtual Network Design and Maintenance
Identity as a pillar of Information Security
Managing directories and identities
Virtualization on premises and virtualization in a public cloud
Domain architectures, trust boundaries, and least privilege
Digital certificates for authentication and cryptography

Student Learning Outcomes
Explain virtualization, hypervisor technologies, and cloud computing.

Recommend appropriate technologies based on business needs.

Configure the different types of virtual network interfaces.

Design and build a domain and security management plan.

Describe the role and basic functions of an operating system, and how operating systems interact with hardware and software applications.

Identify and describe basic security issues of operating systems.

Given a specific scenario, identify the design principles involved or needed, and identify security failures that result from violations of design principles.

Explain the interaction between security and system usability and the importance for minimizing the effects of security mechanisms.

Describe how cryptography can be used, strengths and weaknesses, modes, and issues that have to be addressed in an implementation (e.g., key management), etc.