IT school in Northern Virgina: Associate degree in IT in as little as 17 months

Degree Level: Associate

Information Technology Associate of Occupational Studies Degree

Businesses rely heavily on information and network technologies across a wide range of
services. Westwood’s Information Technology degree offers five areas of emphasis designed to serve employers’ needs:

• Cisco Network Security
• Cisco Network Wireless
• Virtualization
• Cisco Network Voice
• Microsoft Systems Administrator

Westwood’s Information Technology program prepares students with the knowledge, skills and training needed to enter a wide variety of career fields and earn industry-relevant certifications.1

Area-of-Emphasis:

CISCO NETWORK SECURITY

• plan, implement, upgrade or monitor security measures for the protection of computer networks and information
• ensure appropriate security controls are in place to safeguard digital files and vital electronic infrastructure
• respond to security breaches and viruses

CISCO NETWORK VOICE

• design, install, support and maintain VoIP and telephony products for an organization
• perform and ensure that network or united communications architecture is functioning efficiently
• program/upgrade communication networks and software

CISCO NETWORK WIRELESS

• design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN),
  wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks
• perform network modeling, analysis and planning
• design network and computer security measures

MICROSOFT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION

• install, configure and support an organization’s local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN)
  and Internet systems or a segment of a network system
• monitor a network to ensure network availability to all system users
• perform necessary maintenance to support network availability

VIRTUALIZATION

• install, design and configure highly available and scalable virtual infrastructures
• work with private or public cloud environments, hypervisors, security and other applications providing
  various support services across an organization
• support, monitor and troubleshoot virtual environments, network storage and data, virtual machines,
  desktops and other operating systems

Course topics may include:  Introduction to Networks Cloud Computing Essentials Installing and configuring Windows Server Introduction to Network Security Linux® Operating Systems Technical Application for Today’s Society

Upon successful completion of the program, students will be able to:  Install industry-relevant operating systems Perform administrative functions in an information technology environment Administer server environments Troubleshoot hardware and software

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*Westwood prepares graduates for certification. Graduates wishing to attain certification must take and pass any applicable tests/exams.