PCA 616 - Network+ Technician Certification - HYB

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

This course is designed to teach the student to set up and maintain computer network systems and the various responsibilities and tasks required for a network service technician to successfully perform in a customer-based environment. Topics to be covered include planning, installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting a computer network; and the fundamental building blocks that form a modern network, such as protocols, topologies, hardware, and network operating systems.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. define the layers of the OSI and DARPA networking models;
2. describe signaling techniques used on modern networks, including those used over wired and wireless networks;
3. describe the advantages of different networking media;
4. utilize TCP/IP for networked communication;
5. demonstrate the ability to integrate disaster recovery solutions in a given network environment;
6. illustrate the variety of physical and logical topologies used to build networks;
7. discriminate between a well-designed and a poorly designed network;
8. select the best network design, hardware, and software for a given environment;
9. plan, setup, administer, and troubleshoot a Local Area Network (LAN);
10. describe the role of information security in today’s computing environments; and
11. utilize network diagrams.