ITE 320 Information Management Systems

4 Credit(s)

It is the role of the IT professional to develop, deploy, manage and integrate data and information systems to support the organization. At a fundamental level, Information Management Systems address these issues by providing mechanisms of storing, searching, updating, and retrieving information. Underlying all of these functionalities are the concepts of a file and file organization, upon which is built the concept of an information management system. This course presents the fundamental concepts of data organization architectures, database management system models and query languages, principles of data modeling, and techniques for managing a database environment. Contemporary distributed network-based data storage mechanisms are also discussed. Three lecture hours and three hours of scheduled laboratory per week. Prerequisites: ITE 105, ITE 201.