This course is designed to provide an applied and practical knowledge required to design, configure, install, and troubleshoot hardware, peripherals and protocols used in local area networking. The course content is patterned after the material required to pass the vendor neutral Network + N10-007 examination. This certificate course focuses on rudiments of networking and the knowledge and application of OSI model. The essentials and application of TCP/IP and the use of routers with TCP/IP will be highlighted. Remote connectivity, network installation, network Administration, maintenance, support, trouble shooting, and network security will be some of the models covered. The topics in this course have been designated to prepare students to take the Network + certification exam but will also cover other topics in more detail as time permits.
This course is addressed to students with little to none programming experience by introducing the fundamental concepts of problem solving and procedural programming. The programming language used for this course examples is Python, one of the most popular general-purpose programming languages presently.