FIT3165 is not in the 2027 Handbook - Monash may have renumbered or withdrawn it. This is what the 2026 Handbook published; check the 2027 Handbook or your faculty before planning next year.
Faculty notice: this unit is changing
No longer offered
BIT - Cybersecurity
Replace with FIT2165 (S1 and S2)
From: Re-enrolment and unit changes - Information Technology (undergraduate) · Last checked: 7 Oct 2026 UTC
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Units / FIT3165
FIT3165 · Computer networks
2026 Handbook6 credit pointsLevel 3Faculty of Information Technology
Overview
The unit introduces computer networks with an explicit software and system-centric focus. It provides foundation skills in data communications, networks, and associated software interfaces, and introduces basic principles in network design, configuration, management and security.
Areas of study: Computer networks and security
Offerings
| Campus | Teaching period | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Clayton | First semester | Flexible (FLEXIBLE) |
Assessment
The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.
| # | Assessment | Type | Weight | Hurdle |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laboratory Exercises | Demonstration | 20% | — |
| 2 | Applied sessions Exercises | Exercise | 20% | — |
| 3 | Applied Problem Solving Tasks | Quiz / Test | 60% | — |
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Requisites
Learning outcomes
- Explain the network architecture standards for open systems;
- Describe and apply the ISO reference and Internet models;
- Implement programs using internetworking concepts, IP addressing, IPC and socket-level interface;
- Analyse the fundamentals and technologies of cabled and wireless physical layer;
- Analyse the fundamentals and technologies of cabled and wireless data-link layer;
- Apply and implement the fundamentals and technologies of the network layer, including packet-switching and queueing concepts;
- Analyse designs based on the functions and architectures of cabled and wireless LAN and WAN, including ALOHA and CSMA/CD models;
- Implement system level designs based on LAN architecture for organisational requirements.
Workload
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled online and face to face learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated reading and preparation for scheduled teaching activities.
| Activity | Duration |
|---|---|
| Workshops | 24 hours |
| Laboratories | 18 hours |
| Applied sessions | 12 hours |
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