Core Body of Knowledge - 2231-11

Author Profile

• Over 6 years IT experience at 4 companies. The main experience was in a world leading billing and customer relationship management Software Company
• Roles have included: IT specialist in the monetary department, Senior Applicative DBA, DBA consultant and DBA team leader
• Experience of Oracle Database, TimesTen, SqlServer Database, UNIX Shell scripting (Ksh, Tcsh, Csh, Bash, Sed, Awk, etc.) SQL, PL/SQL; Windows, UNIX and Linux environments
• BA degree in Economics and management (honours degree), LLM degree in law (honours degree), postgraduate course: Career Change Course to Software Engineering - Information Technology: Web based Information Technology Systems Programming Course for academic graduates and other IT courses

ASCO 2231-11 CBOK Example

Complete RPL application form including Project Reports

This includes all the CBOK sections detailed below and both Project Reports for this RPL.

1. Computer Organisation and Architecture

"On my BA degree courses, I participated in an "Introduction to programming and the computer" course. The content of this course included, among others, the basic architecture of the computer, structure of the personal computer, the operating system..."

2. Conceptual Modelling

"On my BA degree courses, I participated in an "Analysis and Design of Information Systems" course. The content of this course included, among others, the information system role and design, the stages of the information system development, system analysis..."

3. Database Management

"Throughout my career I have dealt with data and Database management and administration. I have dealt with Oracle Database on UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms, Sql Server Database on Windows Platforms and TimesTen Database on UNIX Platforms..."

4. Data Communications and Networks

"I received good introduction to basic communication and networking techniques during the Career Change Course to Software Engineering held on year 2000. In this course, I learned introduction to data communications subject..."

5. Data Structures and Algorithms

"The introduction to data structures and algorithms came during my BA degree courses, when I participated in an "Introduction to programming and the computer" course. The content of this course included, among others, algorithms, variables..."

6. Discrete Mathematics

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7. Ethics / Social Implications / Professional Practice

"Ethics in business and IT is in general a standard of conduct that based on moral duties and virtues and the principles of right and wrong. I feel that ethical behavior has many sides: culture and heritage respect, community contribution projects, environmental concerns..."

8. Interpersonal Communications

"One of most the important lessons that I have learnt during my working years was the role of Interpersonal Communications in the success or failure of a business or a software system. Database administrators or software system architects must have good..."

9. Program Design and Implementation

"I learned the basics of computer programming and practiced it during my BA degree. I used Basic and Turbo Pascal 7 to understand the importance of an efficient algorithms and a detail design. Later on, during the Career Change Course to Software Engineering..."

10. Project Management and Quality Assurance

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11. Security

"From my experience in the IT industry I fully understand the importance of security of IT Systems, from software applications, databases and networks point of view by implementing general company security procedures. In the modern IT sophisticated..."

12. Software Engineering and Methodologies

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13. Systems Analysis and Design

"On my BA degree courses, I participated in an "Analysis and Design of Information Systems" course. The content of this course included, among others, the information system role and design, the stages of the information system development, information systems..."

14. Systems Software

"Throughout my career I have worked with operating systems closely. Whilst at University and career change course to Software Engineering, I learnt about MS-DOS operating system and the main features, files creation and manipulation and System tools..."

Brief Summary of Conclusions

"During my various formal studying, BA degree and IT courses, I have learnt many of the fundamental concepts of IT. I have learnt on algorithms, programming methods and languages, data flow, application software life cycle, RDBMS, SQL statements, databases..."