Networking

Recommended CTE Clusters Sequences

Grade Level: 11 – 12

Credit: 1 – Full Year

Recommended Prerequisite: Information Technology Foundations and  OS/Hardware or pass assessment

This course will be available in two optional tracks.

  1. The first will prepare the students to become eligible to sit for the Network+ certification assessment. The focus would be on Microsoft certification.

  2. The second option is to prepare the students to become eligible to sit for the Cisco CCNA certification.

Both will use the following foundational skills.

  • Comprehensive coverage of fundamental networking technologies, with a focus on major operating systems including Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Linux, and Novell NetWare 6.5.

  • Updated to include a new chapter covering the basics of Network Security, as well as, a new chapter on Small Business Networks addressing the needs and concerns of small business.

  • Features extensive learning tools, including Review Questions, Hands-On Projects, and Case Projects, which allow students to practice skills as they are learned.

  • Includes a CD-ROM with detailed, graphical simulations of common networking processes, such as switch operation, layers of the networking process, network address translation, Ethernet operation and more so that you can read about these processes and see them in action.
 

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