| The first of two courses designed to provide
students with classroom and laboratory experience in current
and emerging networking technology. Content standards are based
on a task analysis of current industry/occupational standards.
The first half of the course includes, but is not limited to,
safety, networking, network terminology and protocols, network
standards, LANs, WANs, OSI models, cabling tools, routers,
router programming, star topology, IP addressing, and network
standards. The second half of the course includes, but is not
limited to, safety, networking, network terminology and protocols,
network standards, LANs, WANs, OSI models, Ethernet, token
ring, fiber distributed interface, TCP/IP addressing protocol,
dynamic routing, routing, and decision-making and problem-solving
techniques in applying science, mathematics, communication
and social studies concepts to solve networking problems. |