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Training Course Summary:

This course provides students with an excellent foundation upon which to build their network training. It covers the basics of computer networking, including terms and concepts. Networking technology — how it works, and why it works — is made clear in this course, where concepts like contemporary network services, transmission media, and protocols are explained. Students learn how protocols are used in networking implementations from many vendors, especially those most common in today's LANs and WANs.

Pre-Requisites:

• an understanding of personal computers and their operating systems

Training Course Overview/Content:

When you complete this course, you will be able to:
• Why networking protocols are important
• The layers of the OSI reference model
• Characteristics & uses of the layers of the OSI reference model
• Lower layer protocols
• Ethernet and token ring repeaters
• The benefits of bridging
• The use of switching hubs
• Bridges, switches and routers
• Register a domain name
• Assign addresses to hosts
• The purpose of subnets
• The purpose of supernets
• Routing considerations when supernetting
• TCP/IP protocol
• Vector routing with IP
• Describe IPv6
• IPX and SPX
COURSE TOPICS:
• Introducing computer networking
• Network services
• Transmission media
• Connectivity devices
• Network protocols and models
• OSI layers
• Lower layer protocols
• Bridging, switching and routing
• IP addressing
• Creating subnets
• TCP/IP protocol stack
• IPX protocol stack
• Directory services

Qualifications:

Exam 50-632