Delivery: Online
Estimated Length: 16 seat hours
Price: $535.00
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Introduction to Networking: Home and Peer-to-Peer Networks is designed for students who have a basic understanding of personal computers and their applications. By teaching the fundamentals of data networking and communications, the course explains how to build and operate a small computer network, typically found in a customer’s home. In addition, the course identifies and describes the hardware, software, protocols and signals that are essential to understanding how data networks operate. The students are introduced to the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) protocol and how the signals travel across the different layers of the protocol, carrying data from one device to another. Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN) are introduced along with Metro Ethernet, WiMAX, and Cellular technologies. Networking terminology and acronyms are defined and explained throughout the course, which illustrates how the same key principles and components form the foundation of all networks, from the smallest peer-to-peer network to the Internet.
Completion Time:
The estimated completion time for this course is 16 hours. The maximum allotted time is four months from enrollment.
Benefits:
- receive credit toward NCTI Master Dispatcher certification
- receive an industry-recognized NCTI certificate of graduation
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- identify the different types of networking hardware and software
- describe the various physical and logical topologies used and discuss networking hardware and software implementation
- discuss industry networking standards and enforcement
- explain how network signals are transmitted over wired and wireless networks
- describe what protocols are and why they are necessary
- describe the different types of addresses that computers use to send and receive information
- explain the OSI Model, and describe how information flows between two communicating computers
- describe the technologies used in local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs)
- identify Metro Ethernet, WiMAX and Cellular technology
- identify the common types of networking devices and explain the purpose of each
- explain how the Internet works in simple terms
- understand how to build and operate a small peer-to-peer network
- describe remote connectivity
- identify common problems that can stop communications in network
Outline:
Computers and Software in Networks
Describe devices on networks and internal computer components: central processing units (CPU), input/ output (I/O) hardware, memory, and network interface cards (NIC), along with software and popular operating systems
Carrier Signals, Cable Types and Network Topologies
Review communication and signals, network topologies and overview of a structured wiring system
Computer Protocols and Services
Learn about protocols, layers of protocols and services and communicating across a network
The OSI Model
Introduction to the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model, the physical layer, the data link layer, the network layer, the transport layer, the session layer, the presentation layer and the application layer
Local Area Networks (LAN)
LAN data link protocols, Ethernet, token ring and FDDI, wireless LANs, LAN software architectures and information flow between client and server
Network Components
Repeaters and hubs, bridges, switches, routers and gateways
Wide Area Networks (WAN)
Point-to-point WAN services and switched WAN services
Integrating the Course Elements
Building a small, peer-to-peer network and expanding the small network