Curriculum Updates:
HP IT Essentials, Java & UNIX
Alex Wong
Curtin University of Technology
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Academy Program Curriculum
• CCNA – Networking
• CCNP – Networking
• Fundamentals of Wireless LANs
• Fundamentals of Network Security
• Fundamentals of UNIX (Under Review)
• Fundamentals of Java Programming (Under Review)
• Fundamentals of Voice and Data Cabling
• Panduit Network Infrastructure Essentials (PNIE)
• HP IT Essentials I: PC Hardware and Software
• HP IT Essentials II: Network Operating Systems
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Sponsored Curriculum
Through the Sponsored Curriculum:
•A range of courses for all levels covering a
wide range of IT skill areas
•Provides real IT skills and real opportunities
for students
•Lays the foundation for other Cisco courses
•Sponsored curriculum provides a good way
for interested Academies to join the
Networking Academy at a low cost.
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HP IT Essentials - Lab Equipment
PC Requirements + Lab Equipment IT I
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ATX 300W tower
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Motherboard
Newer Intel or compatible CPU
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Ball Bearing Fan and Heat Sink
Thermal grease
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128Mb, SDRAM
Floppy drive
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Hard drive
CD-ROM
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Modem
NIC, 10/100 PCI
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Video card
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Sound card
Ribbon cables
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Mouse
Keyboard
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Monitor
Network printer
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Microsoft® Windows® XP
Microsoft® Windows® 2000
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Electrostatic mats and wrist straps
Simple test meters
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PC Toolkits
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Fundamentals of Unix - Lab Equipment
• Instructional workstations to view curriculum
Can be running Windows, Solaris for SPARC, or Linux
• PCs or UNIX workstations running either Linux or Solaris
Free download of Red Hat is now called Fedora Project
• 1 Classroom printer
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Fundamentals of Java Programming - Lab
Three Software packages required
All No Cost Downloads
Java 2 Standard Edition J2SE
J2SE 1.4 Documentation.
BlueJ IDE Development Tool.
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Curriculum Updates
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HP IT Essentials I: PC Hardware & Software
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HP IT Essentials I: PC Hardware & Software
• V3.0 – released August 2003
• V3.1 – released 27 November 2004
Personalized Feedback
Technical Errors from v3.0 corrected
Downloadable version contains dynamic Search feature
Discount A+ exam vouchers available to Academy students
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HP IT Essentials II: Network Operating Systems
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HP IT Essentials II: Network Operating
Systems
• V2.0 (current) – released January 2003
ITE I + ITE II prepares students for CompTIA’s Server+ certification
UNIX + ITE II prepares for CompTIA Linux+ certification
Discount Server+ and Linux+ exam vouchers available to Academy
students
• V3.0 – target release date of mid 2005
Will align with new Linux+ certification objectives
Hardware content supporting Server+ certification will be removed. ITE
I + ITE II will no longer prepare students for Server+ certification exam
Windows content to remain.
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Sun Sponsorship
•Sponsorship ended May 2004
•Java and UNIX will be available until July 2006
Training and support available from support
Academy
•Cisco discussing future direction of Java and UNIX
•Java v2.0 released 28 August 2004 - No More Updates
•No new release of UNIX planned
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Fundamentals of UNIX
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Fundamentals of UNIX
• Currently set to retire July 2006
• V2.0 (current)
Major content additions: Linux, Shell Programming
Teach with either Linux or Solaris
Labs support both Linux and Solaris users using
any GUI (GNOME, KDE or CDE)
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Fundamentals of Java Programming
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Java Update
• V1.2 - released June 2003
Discount Java exam vouchers for Sun Java 2 Programmer exam
available from Sun
• V2.0 (current) - released 28 August 2004
-Better content flow and readability
-Updated content to include the new language technology additions
introduced in Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 5.0)
-Module 1 introduces navigation and use of text editor in three
different environments: Windows, Macintosh, Unix/Linux. This
provides the foundation for the labs to be completed using any of the
three platforms
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Reminder: Add New Course Offerings
• Administrator Home > View/Edit Academy
Information > Enable/Edit Course Offerings
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Summary
• I.T Essentials will continue to be sponsored by
Hewlett Packard.
• I.T Essentials I v3.1 now delivered as dynamic
content
• I.T Essentials II v3.0 will be released mid 2005.
• Sun sponsorship ended and future of
Fundamentals of Unix and Java still up for
discussion.
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Questions?
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