Fairview High School
Inventing Quality Work For Students

Essential Outcomes
 

1^st Trimester Essential Outcomes

1. Implement the industrial safety standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
2. Identify and categorize safety hazards and prevention in the network architecture industry.
3. Exhibit acceptable dress and personal grooming determined by the network architecture industry.
4. Differentiate a wide area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN).
5. Compare and contrast a server, workstation, host, and client
6. Analyze server-based networking and peer-to-peer networking
7.  Evaluate the characteristics of star, bus, mesh, and ring topologies, their advantages and disadvantages
8. Research the characteristics of segments and backbones
9. Define flow control and describe basic methods used in networking.
10.  Compare the advantages and disadvantages of coax, Cat 3, Cat 5, fiber optic, UTP, and STP, and the conditions under which they are appropriate.
11. Recognize the visual appearance of RJ45 and BNC and how they are crimped
12. Evaluate the three categories of the open system interconnect (OSI) model
13. Evaluate the protocols, services, and functions that pertain to each layer of the open system interconnect (OSI) reference model.
14. Research client base served by specific network operating systems and operating system resources.
15. Analyze the directory services of major network operating systems.
16. Differentiate standard protocols and research their advantages and disadvantages.
17. Explain the concept of IP default gateways and the purpose and use of dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), domain name service (DNS), Windows Internet Naming Service (WINS), and host files.
18. Evaluate the main protocols that make up the TCP/IP suite, including TCP, user diagram protocol (UDP), post office protocol (POP3), simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP), simple network management protocol (SNMP), file transfer protocol (FTP), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and IP.
19. Discuss the fundamental concepts of TCP/IP classes, addressing, and port numbers.
20. Explain how and when to use the proper TCP/IP utilities to test, validate, and troubleshoot IP connectivity.
21. Troubleshoot IP connectivity.
22.  Demonstrate understanding of the need for administrative and test accounts, passwords, IP addresses, IP configurations, and relevant standard operating procedure (SOP) prior to network implementation
23. Analyze the impact of environmental factors on computer networks.
24. Recognize visually and comprehend verbal and written descriptions of common peripheral ports, external SCSI (especially DB-25 connectors), and common network components.
25. Analyze uses of RJ-45 connectors, comparing the contributions of cabling and patch cables to the overall length of the cabling segment.
26. Research network management involving network documentation, network security, environmental factors, network performance, server administration, and network troubleshooting.
27. Analyze networking systems, determine problems, and make corrections.
28. Manage an advanced networking system.
29. Evaluate various types of RAID technology
30. Analyze volumes as related to the hard drive.
31. Research the various types of standard backup procedures and backup media storage practices
32. Evaluate the need for periodic applications of software patches and other fixes to the network.
33. Analyze the proper steps to a systematic approach to identifying the extent of a network problem and, given a problem scenario, select the appropriate next step based on this approach. 
34. Specify the tools that are commonly used to resolve network equipment problems and describe the purpose and function of common network tools.
35. Pass a safety test with a score of 100%

2^nd Trimester Essential Outcomes

36. Demonstrate positive leadership skills in the classroom and community.
37. Participate in SkillsUSA as an integral part of classroom instruction
38. Investigate how technology has made an impact on networking architecture in the past two years.
39. Construct a job search network.
40. Demonstrate the modem configuration parameters that must be set, including serial port interrrupted request (IRQ), input/output (I/O) address, and maximum port speed for a remote connection.
41. Demonstrate awareness of the need to check for physical and logical indicators of trouble.
42. Research a network problem scenario, including symptoms and determine the most likely cause(s) of the problem based on the available information.  Select the most appropriate course of action based on this inference.
43.Examine the purpose and function of PPP (point-to-point protocol), serial line interface protocol (SLIP), point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP), integrated service digital network (ISDN), public switched telephone network (PSTN), and post office post office protocol (POTS). 

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