Overview

Indicative content includes:

• IP Addressing and Subnets and structures of networks.
• Routing and Switching, and operation of packet-based networls.
• Transport protocols (TCP and UDP) and their operation.
• Higher-level protocols (HTTP, SMTP, etc.) and relation to low-level protocols.
• Message formats and encoding; translating application data to network forms.
• Connection to networks and adapters; hardware used.
• WiFi (wireless LANs)

Learning Outcomes

• Apply rules for IP addressing and subnetting to given network scenarios.

• Differentiate high-level and transport-layer protocols and their place within networks.

• Differentiate layers of the OSI model and the actions each layer contains.

• Distinguish different roles for devices on a network, including hubs, switches, routers, and gateways.