Replaced by course 87604

Course Code NGE87507

Contents

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

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Description

This is the second course in a three part series that teaches students about networks and transmission principles. The course covers local area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), hierarchical WANs, and LAN components. System network architecture (SNA), and TCP/IP, data protocols, DTE to DCE interface standards, and transmission methods and error checking are also covered.

Audience

The intended audience for this course includes anyone who wants to remain current in the data and telecommunications industries, including Network Engineers, Network Administrators, Telecommunications Technicians, Data/Internet/Telecommunications Sales Professionals, Telecom Sales Engineers, IT/Data Product Managers, and Telecom Account Managers. In addition, anyone taking advanced vendor-neutral or product-specific certification programs would benefit from this course. This course will help prepare candidates for the Basic Data Communications module of the CCNT exam. There are no formal prerequisites, however, fundamental computer knowledge is desirable. In addition, students should have taken the first course in this series 87506.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify features of networks.
• Identify features of LANs and WANs.
• Identify features of hierarchical WANs.
• Identify functions of data protocols.
• Sequence the steps of data encapsulation.
• Identify attributes of data terminal equipment (DTE)todata communication equipment (DCE) interface standards.
• Identify features of data communication equipment (DCE)toDCE protocols.
• Identify features of transmission speed.
• Identify features of digital data transmission.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Networks, SNA, and TCP/IP

• Identify features of networks.
• Identify features of LANs and WANs.
• Identify features of hierarchical WANs.
• Identify features of LANs.
• Identify features of value-added networks (VANs).
• Identify features of Systems Network Architecture (SNA).
• Identify features of SNA hierarchical architecture.
• Identify features of Network Addressable Units (NAUs).
• Match Logical Unit (LU) types with their functions.
• Match Physical Unit (PU) types with their functions.
• Identify features of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite.
• Identify differences between TCP/IP and Open System Interconnection (OSI) models.
• Identify features of media access control (MAC) addressing.
• Sequence the steps to use the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) for address resolution.
• Identify features of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
• Match TCP/IP applications with their features.
• Identify differences between public and private addressing.

Unit 2: Transmission Principles

• Identify functions of data protocols.
• Sequence the steps of data encapsulation.
• Identify attributes of data terminal equipment (DTE)-to-data communication equipment (DCE) interface standards.
• Identify features of the Electronic Industries Association (EIA)-232 standard.
• Identify features of the Electronic Industries Association (EIA)-449 standard.
• Identify features of the V.35 standard.

Unit 3: Transmission Methods and Error Checking

• Identify features of data communication equipment (DCE)-to-DCE protocols.
• Identify features of transmission speed.
• Identify features of digital data transmission.
• Identify features of asynchronous transmission.
• Identify features of synchronous transmission.
• Identify features of a framing protocol.
• Match parts of a high-level data link control (HDLC) frame with their features.
• Identify features of error detection.
• Identify features of parity.
• Identify features of checksum.
• Identify steps in the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) process.

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