This course is designed for students with advanced problem solving skills, such as those who are pursuing a career in engineering, math or science. It allows students to learn skills in a more rigorous, comprehensive and theoretical way that is reflective of standard college and university-level educational practices. Students will perform complex and challenging hands-on labs to develop critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration skills, as well as practical knowledge. A task analysis of current industry standards and occupational analysis was used to develop the content. Upon completing this course, students will be able to use network protocol models to explain the layers of communications in data networks; design, calculate and apply subnet masks and addresses; build a simple Ethernet network using routers and switches; use Cisco command line interface (CLI) commands to perform basic router and switch configuration and verification; and analyze the operations and features of the transport and network layer protocols and services.
