Tag: Architecture

Week 14 – Review and Test 2

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In our final week of class for IST 423, we began with chapter 14 in an effort to finish learning all material that will be on the exam this Friday. On Wednesday we had a review where Dr.Fusco essential just clicked through the review powerpoint and asked everyone if they had any questions. I did not find this to be a review, moreover it seemed an exclamation by professor to spite the few students who had not attended class for the majority of the semester. Friday is the exam and I am confident I will earn a score that will allow me to start my career next month on time. Thank you for giving this class your best effort this semester Dr. Fusco, there was many real-world examples that I appreciated.

https://www.konstantinfo.com/blog/why-multi-tenancy-application-architecture-matters/

Week 12 – Backup Agents and The Cloud

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This week we have been focused on learning the ins and outs of cloud computing. Businesses in todays world are taking full advantage of cloud computing technology to boost business functionality and progress. Cloud computing makes vendors and users have an easier experience of utilizing softwares, infrastructures and applications they may not have had the chance to before. Infrastructure-as-a-service, Platform-as-a-service, and Software-as-a-service are the three main models of cloud computing. All three have their role in creating ease to resources they may not have had before. Cloud computing has in some ways taken over society and is a main driver of many organizations today.

Here is this interesting web page I found that helps outline some backup options in todays world –

https://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/backup-exec-agents-and-options

Week 11 – Backup and Archive

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The world is a volatile and dangerous place so in this week of class we learned about backup and archive. The lecture consisted of learning of numerous backup techniques, the reasoning behind backup and other backup topics such as: Disaster recovery, operational recovery, and archive. We also learned that unfortunately technology is not perfect and with certain hardware, crashes can be common.

https://www.bullguard.com/bullguard-security-center/pc-security/computer-threats/backup-of-data-files-why-it-is-important.aspx

This article from bullguard goes over some of the most common problems facing the protection and safety of your data and applies our learning from class.

Week 8 – Exam One

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This week in class we had our first exam of the course. On Monday, professor Fusco held a review session where he went through the review powerpoint as well as answer anymore in depth, hands-on questions the class was asking. The review session I found very helpful and made me slightly more comfortable with the overall difficult material. On Wednesday, we took the exam and I did not feel too good about it when I walked out of class that day. Friday was an optional class session where professor Fusco did a Docker lab with us for extra credit.

To review for the exam I went through this article going over the OSI model in more depth:

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3239677/the-osi-model-explained-how-to-understand-and-remember-the-7-layer-network-model.html