syllabi

Unit-4: Network Security Authentication, Authentication requirements and functions, Hash functions, MD5 Message digest Algorithm, Secure Hash Algorithm( SHA), Digital Signatures.  Electronics Mail Security: PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), MIME, Data Compression techniques. IP Security: Architecture, Authentication Header, Encapsulating security Payload, Key Management. Web security: Secure Socket Layer & Transport Layer security, Secure electronics transactions.
Unit-5: System Security Intruders, Intrusion Detection, Password Management, Malicious Software: Viruses and related Threats, Virus Countermeasures. Firewalls: Design principles and Trusted Systems.
Unit-6: Network Management Telecommunication Network Architecture, TMN management layers, Management information Model, Management servicing and functions, Structure of management information and TMN information model. Network Management Protocols: SNMP v1, SNMP2 & SNMP3, RMON1 & RMON2, Broadband Network Management: ATM, HFC, DSL, ASN


Unit-4: Test Planning and Design  Characteristics of a good test, equivalence classes and boundary values, visible state transitions, Race conditions and other time dependencies, Overall objective of the test plan: product or tool? Detailed objective, type of test, strategy for developing components of test planning documents, components of test planning documents, documenting test materials.
Unit-5: Testing Tools  Manual Testing, Fundamental tools, Automated acceptance and regression tests, standards, Translucent box testing, Brief introduction to Automated Testing and testing tools-Load Runner, Test Directive.
Unit-6:  Software Quality Management  Quality concepts, Software Quality Assurance, activities, formal approaches to Software Quality assurance, software reliability, Quality Standards, Quality related costs