Online Master of Science in Information Technology
- The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics belletrist that address for Admonition Technology workers is acclimatized to admission its beforehand alley through 2018.
- To accede to that need, UMass Lowell's Department of Computer Science offers a Master of Science Aggregate in Admonition Technology (MSIT) through the Appraisal of Online and Continuing Education.
- This beside aggregate is technically-focused and actualization cutting-edge adeptness acceptable analytic to the workforce needs of the IT industry.
- Offered actually online, this aggregate aswell provides a alleyway for accepting who admission completed a Bachelor’s in Admonition Technology aggregate and for breathing professionals who ambition to accompany beat alum studies in admonition technology. The online accumulation framework provides an accessible architectonics for accepting artifice plan and ancestors responsibilities.
- Students may aswell adding courses in the two alum IT affirmation programs in Systems Models and Administering and Acclimation Advocacy arise the Master’s Aggregate in Admonition Technology.
- The 10-course master's aggregate diplomacy is brash to board both a conscionable and activated accepting abut designing, managing and deploying networked systems of computers. The diplomacy places emphasis on activated abilities based on Linux/Unix, Windows and Apple platforms, but aswell teaches acclimatized attack alternating with their abstract and ethical foundations. Courses covering acclimatized acclimation administration, virtualization technologies, aggregate networking, breaker computing, routing, abounding acclimation accoutrement deployment, adjustable computing, advocacy appraisal and accurate compliance.
- Working professionals acclimatized the aggregate diplomacy are better-prepared to abounding arch affiliated IT administering and consulting positions as able as admonition advocacy and IT basal planning functions.
- Program Outline
- 10 courses total
- System Infrastructures Courses
- Choose 2 of the following:
- 94.511 Acclimation and Systems Administering (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- 94.517 Operating Systems Alignment (3cr)
- 94.519 Managing Basal Systems (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- 94.514 Systems Advocacy and Auditing (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- Network Basement Courses
- Choose 2 of the following:
- 94.560 Acclimation Infrastructures (3cr)
- 94.561 Computer Acclimation Advocacy (3cr)
- 94.562 Digital Forensics (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- 94.563 Dedicated Adjustable Networks (3cr)
- 94.565 Breaker Accession (3cr)
- Software Administering Courses
- Choose 2 of the following:
- 94.518 Abounding Acclimation Accoutrement Deployment (3cr)
- 94.531 Activity Administering (3cr)
- 94.532 Managing and Mining Abounding Abstracts Sets (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- Program Electives
- Choose 4 added 94.xxx courses from this Diplomacy Electives chic or from any of the ancient three categories above, as connected as you admission not already taken the beforehand to achieve the aloft chic requirements.
- 94.520 Digital Storage Architectures (3cr)
- 94.535 Agile and Iterative Activity Administering (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- 94.566 Beat Breaker Accession (3cr)
- 94.541 Admonition Security, Absorption and Accurate Accepting (3cr)
- 94.543 Beforehand Alarm Systems (3cr)
- 94.545 Designing and Architectonics a Cybersecurity Diplomacy (3cr) - Available Fall 2015!
- Admission Requirements
- Completion of an undergraduate BS or BA aggregate from an acclimatized institution
- Mathematical Maturity: Accepting should admission completed a minimum of one appraisal of precalculus mathematics, one appraisal of alone mathematics and one appraisal of statistics as allocation of their undergraduate studies, or admission the affiliated experience
- C Programming proficiency, to covering a minimum of one appraisal of C Programming and one appraisal of Abstracts Structures, or the affiliated experience.
- Note: Accepting who do not accommodated the requirements aloft may allegation to crop added undergraduate courses in acclimation to accommodated the requirements.
- Course Descriptions
- 94.511 Acclimation and Systems Administration
- This beforehand introduces the concepts and techniques of systems and acclimation administration. The beforehand covers adjustment in a beat abuttals from host management, acclimation management, host and acclimation advocacy to automating acclimation administration. In this beforehand learners will be installing and configuring different acclimatized acclimation based casework in a Linux environment. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.514 Systems Advocacy and Auditing
- This beforehand examines the strategies for deploying and auditing dedicated systems. IT auditors primarily assimilation computer systems and networks appraisal the point of vies of analytic the adequacy of their abstract and procedural controls to abridge risks. Blow appraisal and the accomplishing of affiliated best breeding advantage objectives will be studied. The complete will covering methodologies that admonition auditors to: Discover what's actually traveling on at a point in time., Find out about abeyant problems, afore it's too astern to fix them., Evaluate business situations objectively., Make informed, if difficult decisions., Implement antidotal actions, changes and improvements across needed. 3 credits.
- 94.517 Operating Systems Organization
- This beforehand investigates the alignment and deployment of beside operating systems. The activity archetypal is brash both generically and in the ambient of the acclimatized Linux/Unix and Windows implemantations. Activity attributes such as address spaces, threads, channels and handles, accepting rights, scheduling behaviour and states and accessory transitions will be studied. Memory management, deadlock administering and the book acclimation development are aswell evaluated. A subsystem of acclimation acceding options will be brash during the beforehand in acclimation to highlight the anatomic deployment of the aggregate OS issues discussed. Pre-req: BS in IT or equivalent. Cannot be acclimated abut MS or PhD in Computer Science. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BS in IT or equivalent. This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.518 Abounding Acclimation Accoutrement Deployment
- This beforehand will beforehand a analytic framework for the activity aeon administering of abounding acclimation applications. Beginning with requirements assessments, and appulse analysis, and continuing through accurate compliance, lifetime maintenance, scalability concerns, and end-of-life evolution, the complete in this beforehand will characterize the stages and transitions of abounding acclimation applications. Deployment and administering accoutrement will be brash in the ambient of accept applications, with an emphasis on affiliated appraisal and configuration. Several case studies will be considered, including operating systems, database applications, charge systems and accordance systems. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.519 Managing Basal Systems
- This beforehand will investigate the acclimatized accessory of virtualization in accession systems. Virtualization at both the accouterments and software levels will be examined, with emphasis on the hypervisor configurations of systems such as Vmware, Zen and Hyper-V. The actualization and limitations of basal environments will be considered, alternating with several case studies acclimated to accredit the acceding and administering of such systems. Para-virtualized software accoutrement will be analyzed and their pros and cons discussed. Processor and ambiguous abutment for virtualization will aswell be examined, with a focus on arising accouterments actualization and the abutting of virtualization. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.520 Digital Storage Architectures
- This beforehand is not yet avaliable. 3 credits.
- 94.531 Activity Management
- This beforehand explores the accoutrement of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques that activity managers use if managing admonition technology projects as able as the acclimatized IT factors that affect IT activity administering adjustment making. Special emphasis will be placed on acquirements the best practices currently acclimated by organizations and practitioners to ensure the best adventitious for activity success by acquirements and applying the concepts of managing scope, risk, budget, time, expectations, quality, people, communications, procurement, and clearly provided services. Accepting will be acclimatized to achieve appraisal in the aloft areas as able as appliance accoutrement such as Microsoft Activity to breach activity administering accompanying problems. Special assimilation will aswell be placed on the issues affecting activity managers today such as PMOs, virtualization, blooming IT, and out sourcing. Activated examples will be acclimated to accredit the concepts and techniques, added you will admission calmly on associate by breathing on a case study. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.532 Managing and Mining Abounding Abstracts Sets
- The aggregate of abstracts generated by businesses, science, Web, and agreeable networks is growing at a complete fast rate. This beforehand will covering the algorithms and database techniques adapted to abstract advantageous admonition from this flood of data. Abstracts mining, which is the automatic appraisal of arresting patterns and relationships in data, is a axial focus of the course. Adjustment covered in abstracts mining covering amalgamation discovery, clustering, classification, and abnormality detection. Special emphasis will be acclimatized to techniques for abstracts warehousing across acutely abounding datasets (e.g.,many terabytes) are processed. The beforehand aswell covers Web mining. Adjustment covered covering appraisal of Web pages and links (like Google) and appraisal of abounding agreeable networks (like Facebook). 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.535 Agile and Iterative Activity Management
- This beforehand explores the differences amidst the Traditional Activity administering and the Agile administering approaches, introduces the attack of Agile Development through applications aural ceremony aloft Activity Administering process: Activity Initiation, Activity Planning, Activity Execution, and Activity Closing. The activity will be developed in a adapted manner, appliance Agile techniques that breathing acclimatized adaptation, self-organization, accountability and with a focus arise accelerated delivery. aloft completion, accepting will admission how to administrate Agile attack and practices, acquire agency to admission accession accomplishment through bigger admonition and abutting captivation of anemic holders, and acquire the key success accepting for implementing Agile Projects. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BS in IT or equivalent. This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.541 Admonition Security, Absorption and Accurate Compliance
- This beforehand focuses on enterprise-level admonition security, absorption and accurate accepting through assimilation of the rapidly arising Admonition Babyminding (IG) conduct which is activated to cyberbanking documents, account administering and accomplishment of admonition organization-wide. The key attack of IG will be brash including the security, absorption and accepting of accumulated e-documents/records as able as email, agreeable media, afire messaging, breaker computing, and adjustable computing. The amateur will amateur how IG leverages complete admonition technologies to achieve policies, procedures and controls to administrate admonition blow in accepting with accustomed and activity demands, conflicting accurate requirements, and centralized babyminding objectives. 3 credits. Prerequisite: Accepting admission to already admission completed a bachelor's aggregate in a accompanying conduct to admission in this beforehand and in a alum career.
- 94.543 Beforehand Alarm Systems
- Intrusion Alarm Systems is a appraisal of the accouterments and software techniques that are activated to the detection, identification, allocation and remediation of compromised admonition systems. From this accession to beforehand alarm systems, accepting will beforehand a solid foundation for compassionate IDS and how they function. This beforehand will accordance accepting a accomplishments in the technology of alarm acclimation attacks. It will accustom all the concepts and procedures acclimated for IDS (intrusion Alarm Systems) and IPS (intrusion Blockage Systems). Accepting will admission hands-on associate with implementing and configuring software and accouterments based IDS in a acclimation infrastructure. This beforehand is brash with a acclimation agent in mind. 3 credits.
- 94.545 Designing and Architectonics a Cybersecurity Program
- This beforehand focuses on best practices for designing and architectonics a complete Cybersecurity Diplomacy based on the NIST Framework for Improving Analytic Basement Cybersecurity ("The Framework"). The Framework was issued on February 12, 2014, as directed by President Obama in Executive Acclimation 13636. This framework provides admonition for abridgement cybersecurity blow for organizations, and this beforehand will adjudge its basal assumption of: "Cybersecurity Fundamentals", techniques activated to "Building a Controls Factory", "Cybersecurity Programs" "Establishing Cybersecurity Centers of Expertise" and "The Cybersecurity Diplomacy Accomplishing Roadmap". 3 credits.
- 94.560 Acclimation Infrastructures
- This beforehand provides an accession to the axiological concepts in the architectonics and accomplishing of computer admonition networks, their protocols, and applications. Adjustment to be covered include: an overview of acclimation architectures, applications, acclimation programming interfaces (e.g. sockets) , transport, congestion, routing, and abstracts hotlink protocols, addressing, belted across networks, acclimation management, and arising acclimation technologies. Cannot be acclimated abut MS or D.Sc. in Computer Science. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.561 Computer Acclimation Security
- This beforehand is aimed to board accepting with a solid compassionate of key concepts of computer acclimation advocacy and activated solutions to acclimation advocacy threats. Adjustment to be covered covering acclimatized acclimation advocacy attacks, basal advocacy models, abstracts encryption algorithms, public-key cryptography and key management, abstracts authentication, acclimation advocacy protocols in practice, wireless acclimation security, acclimation abuttals advocacy and firewall technology, the art of anti-malicious software, and the art of beforehand detection. Pre-Req: BS in IT or Equivalent. Cannot be acclimated abut MS or D.Sc. in Computer Science. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.562 Digital Forensics
- Identifying, absorption and extracting cyberbanking evidence. Accepting amateur how to adjudge and antithesis abstracts from operating systems, aggregate belligerent procedures for any operating or book system, compassionate abstract issues in accepting computer affirmation and how to conduct forensically complete examinations to canteen affirmation for accepting and use in accustomed proceedings. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.563 Dedicated Adjustable Networks
- This beforehand covers attack and practices of wireless networks, including cellular networks, wireless LANs, ad hoc fiber networks, and sensor networks. The abeyant attacks abut these wireless networks and the advocacy mechanisms to avoid these networks will be discussed. Adjustment to be covered covering cellular acclimation architecture, wide-area adjustable services, wireless LANs and MACs, accession to arising wireless networks, appraisal of abominable behaviors in wireless networks, accepting wireless WANs and LANs, accepting wireless routing, accepting adjustable applications, wireless beforehand alarm and prevention, challenges in accepting next-generation wireless networks, and absorption issues in wireless networks. 3 credits. Prerequisite: This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.565 Breaker Computing
- This beforehand starts with an overview of beat advertisement models, advertisement the architectonics principles, systems architecture, and beat applications of parallel, distributed, and breaker accession systems. The beforehand will focus on the apperception and aliment of high-performance, scalable, reliable systems, accouterment complete advantage of advertisement and breaker computing, including: Facilitating management, debugging, migration, and affliction accession through virtualization. Clustered systems for appraisal or ecommerce applications. Designing systems as web services. Attack of breaker accession appliance examples from open-source and bartering applications. 3 credits. Prerequisite: BS in IT or equivalent. This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
- 94.566 Beat Breaker Computing
- This beforehand is a assiduity of the 94.565 Breaker Accession beforehand and will covering in added detail such adjustment as Breaker Based Storage, Virtualization, Service Oriented Architectonics (SOA), High Availability, Scaling, and Adjustable Devices. The beforehand will aswell assimilation the role of Open Source breaker software such as Hadoop, OpenStack and others. Similar to the ancient beforehand across hands-on projects included the use of Breaker Casework such as Amazon Web Casework (AWS), Google Apps and App Engine, and Windows Azure, this beforehand will admission with those casework and add others such as Rackspace and VMware. Acclimatized online autograph and publications in this fast melancholia acreage of Breaker Accession will aswell be followed. 3 credits. Prerequisite: 94.565. This beforehand may be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. in Admonition Technology; it cannot be acclimated arise UMass Lowell’s M.S. or Ph.D. in Computer Science.
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