Description
This is the last course in a three part series that teaches Network Management and the tools and protocols associated with that. It also covers advanced network technologies to include circuit switched services and packet switched services.
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 Local Area Network module of the CCNT exam. Additionally, learners should have taken the first two parts of this series, courses 87509 - 87510.
Prerequisites
(Currently no course prerequisite information)
Objective
- Identify network trends.
- Identify characteristics of software management.
- Identify characteristics of network management.
- Identify capabilities of the T1 technology.
- Identify features of statistical multiplexing.
- Categorize features of circuit and packet switching.
Topics Include
Unit 1: LANs in the Organization - Identify network trends.
- Identify characteristics of software management.
- Identify characteristics of network management.
- Identify characteristics of user management.
- Identify considerations for planning a network
- Identify functions of tone generators and tone locators.
- Identify characteristics of wire map testers.
- Match multifunction cable testers with their descriptions.
- Identify functions of a time-domain reflectometer (TDR).
- Identify characteristics of optical testers.
- Identify functions of logs and indicators in the administration of a network.
- Identify functions of performance monitors in the administration of a network.
- Identify characteristics of protocol analyzers.
- Identify characteristics of integrated network management.
- Identify characteristics of configuration management.
- Identify characteristics of fault management.
- Identify characteristics of performance management.
- Identify characteristics of accounting management.
- Identify characteristics of security management.
- Identify characteristics of network management protocols.
- Identify features of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
- Identify features of Desktop Management Interface (DMI).
Unit 2: Advanced WAN Technologies - Identify capabilities of the T1 technology.
- Identify features of statistical multiplexing.
- Categorize features of circuit and packet switching.
- Identify functions of Packet Assembler/Disassembler (PAD).
- Identify characteristics of an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).
- Identify features of a Switched Multimegabit Digital Service (SMDS).
- Identify features of a Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (BISDN).
- Identify features of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).
- Identify features of X.25 packet transmission.
- Identify characteristics of Frame Relay.
- Identify characteristics of Frame Relay.
- Identify characteristics of a Synchronous Optical Network (SONET).
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).
The network 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 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
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