PCA 959 - CISCO I NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS - HYB

5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn current and emerging networking technologies. The course helps prepare the student for professional careers in the information and communication technology (ICT) field and the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification exam. This is the first course in a four-course sequence. Topics to be covered include living in a network-centric world; communicating over the network; application layer functionality and protocols; Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model layers; addressing the network: IPv4, Ethernet, planning and cabling networks; and configuring and testing the network.

Course Objectives:

1. use network protocol models to explain the layers of communications in data networks;

2. design, calculate, and apply subnet masks and addresses;

3. demonstrate the ability to build a simple Ethernet network using routers and switches,

4. employ basic cabling and network designs to connect devices;

5. use Cisco Command Line Interface (CLI) commands to perform basic router and switch configuration and verification; and

6. analyze the operations and feature of the transport and network layer protocols and services.