Description
While many MIS programs produce students who do excellent analysis and design work, in some cases these same students show weaknesses when it comes to creating and deploying the solutions they envision. Even if students take a number of courses in programming and can develop applications, few of these students have the skills needed to roll out an end-to-end solution because they don’t understand the infrastructure requirements for providing the platform to support their solution. As part of our XXXXXX class, students complete a series of “Hands-On Tech Challenges”. Working in the cloud using Microsoft Azure, students create and configure a collection of virtual machines including a domain controller, DNS server, workstations, file server, database server, network monitor and web server. This virtual network provides each student with a complete platform upon which they can deploy systems that they have developed in their application programming and database courses.
Recommended Citation
Doyle, Mart, "Hands-On Tech Challenge" (2017). AMCIS 2017 Proceedings. 13.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2017/ISEducation/Presentations/13
Hands-On Tech Challenge
While many MIS programs produce students who do excellent analysis and design work, in some cases these same students show weaknesses when it comes to creating and deploying the solutions they envision. Even if students take a number of courses in programming and can develop applications, few of these students have the skills needed to roll out an end-to-end solution because they don’t understand the infrastructure requirements for providing the platform to support their solution. As part of our XXXXXX class, students complete a series of “Hands-On Tech Challenges”. Working in the cloud using Microsoft Azure, students create and configure a collection of virtual machines including a domain controller, DNS server, workstations, file server, database server, network monitor and web server. This virtual network provides each student with a complete platform upon which they can deploy systems that they have developed in their application programming and database courses.