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Certificate 3 in Business Administration

Certificate 2 in Information Technology

ICAITS017C

Maintain System Integrity

This unit expresses the competency required to protect and secure stand-alone or client server environments. Specifically, learners will: ·

In order to complete this unit you will be required to:
 

• Print out the assessment item at this link so that you can have it with you as your work through the following training:

• Backup and disaster recovery
• A mental exercise to underscore the importance of backups
• The risks to your data
• Hardware failure
• Software failure
• File System Corruption

• Backup Methods, Devices and Media
• Media size matching
• Floppy disks
• Tape drives
• Removable storage drives
• Removable hard disks
• In-place hard disk duplication
• Network backup
• File Archiving
• Comparison of Backup Method Data Risk Coverage
• Comparison of Backup Method Characteristics

• Backup Scheduling and Media Rotation Systems
• Retention Period
• Media Rotation Tradeoffs
• Minimum Security Rotation System
• Light Security Rotation System
• Medium Security Rotation System Maximum Security Rotation System
• Scheduling Considerations for Multiple PCs
• Full, Selective and Incremental Backups
• Backing Up Programs and Data
• Files Not to Back Up
• The Windows 95 Registry
• Long Filenames
• File System Parameters
• BIOS Settings (CMOS Memory) Backup

• How to Back Up
• Backup Timing
• Backup Software
• Software Conflicts
• Data Verification
• Backup Compression
• Media Storage
• Boot Disks
• Importance of Boot Disks
• Boot Disk Contents
• Creating Boot Disks
• Updating Boot Disks
• Using Boot Disks

• Disaster Recovery
• System Recovery from Incremental Backups
• Single-Step Recovery
• Manual DOS or Windows 3.x Recovery
• Manual Windows 95 Recovery

• Overview of Computer Viruses
• Virus Detection and Protection
• Definition of Viruses and Virus-like Programs
• Major Virus Types and How They Work
• Virus Hoaxes
• Who writes viruses... and why?
• Digital Hygiene
• Infection by Floppy Disk
• Infection over PC Networks
• Infection over the Internet
• Infection through Software Installation
• Virus Scanning and Anti-virus Software
• Symptons of Virus Infection
• Viruses in Memory, the importance of a clean boot floppy
• Types of Scanners and other Anti-virus protection
• False Positives and False Negatives
• Virus Definition Files
• Virus Removal and Recovery
• Deciding on an Anti-virus Software Plan
• Have a look at the Virus Information Centre

• Business Software Association of Australia
• Software Management Information - The Copyright Act
• Tips for Software Management
• Penalties for Illegal Software
• Software Checklist
• Shareware and Freeware

For a full description of the Elements of Competency and Performance Criteria for this Unit refer to this link at the National Training Information Service