Networking Technologies Series: TCP/IP Concepts and Architecture

Audience

Network managers network administrators software developers and technical support personnel who want to learn about and use TCP/IP.

Objective

• Identify TCP/IP services.


• Examine the TCP/IP architecture.


• Identify how Internet Protocol (IP) runs over various lowerlayer technologies.


• Identify the principles followed for IP addressing.

Topics Include

Unit 1: TCP/IP Overview

• Identify the features of TCP/IP.
• Identify the advantages of using connection-oriented over connectionless communication.
• Match the TCP/IP application services with their uses.
• Identify the advantages of multiple-layered protocols.
• Match the different layers in the OSI model with the tasks performed by them.
• Arrange the different layers of the TCP/IP protocol suite based on their descriptions.
• Identify the characteristics of IP routing.
• Sequence the steps used by TCP/IP to implement the authentication security issues.
• Sequence the steps used by TCP/IP to implement the message integrity security issues.
• Match the symmetric asymmetric and combined encryption methods used to implement confidentiality of information with their characteristics.

Unit 2: Physical and Data Link Technologies

• Match the fields in the HDLC frame format with the tasks they are used to perform.
• Identify the features of the Internet Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP).
• Sequence the steps in CHAP authentication.
• Identify the uses of SLIP.
• Identify the features of DIX Ethernet.
• Match the fields in 802.3 frame with their uses.
• Match 802.4 802.5 and FDDI LAN technologies with their features.
• Identify the tasks and characteristic of the packet networks such as X.25 frame relay Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service (SMDS) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
• Identify the features of the X.25 networks.
• Match the fields in frame relay with their uses.
• Identify the features of SMDS.
• Identify the features of ATM technology.

Unit 3: Naming and Addressing

• Identify the features of Internet domain names.
• Match the IP address classes with the address specification.
• Identify the situations in which reserved IP addresses are used.
• Identify the functions that must be supported within a host that is a member of one or more multicast groups.
• Identify the rules for translating multicast names to addresses.
• Identify the benefits of subnetting.
• Identify the subnet mask to be used for a given situation.
• Identify the features of supernet addressing.
• Identify the fields in the ARP message content format.
• Sequence the steps in Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP).
• Sequence the process of proxy ARP.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

CDROM
Web Based Training