Preface & Chapter 1-15 Outlines

Outline:

Preface
0.1 FAQs
0.1.1 Frequently asked questions 
0.2 Syllabus
0.2.1 9 week and 18-week 
0.3 Best Practices
0.3.1 Challenges 
0.3.2 Design activities 
0.3.3 Graphical organizers and representations
0.3.4 Group work 
0.3.5 Journals
0.3.6 Kinesthetic activities 
0.3.7 Lab exams
0.3.8 Mini-lectures 
0.3.9 Online study 
0.3.10 Oral exams 
0.3.11 Portfolios
0.3.12 Presentations 
0.3.13 Rubrics 
0.3.14 Study guide
0.3.15 Troubleshooting 
0.3.16 Web research 
0.4 Instructors Resource Guide
0.4.1 Introduction and overview
0.4.2 Lesson plan design
0.4.3 Study Guide 
0.4.4 Instructional responsibilities for teachers
0.4.5.1 Teaching Strategies: Jeopardy
0.4.5.2 Teaching Strategies: Scientific inquiry
0.4.5.3 Teaching Strategies: Student reflection 
0.4.5.4 Teaching Strategies: Using rubrics 
0.4.5.5 Teaching Strategies: Review strategies 
0.4.5.6 Teaching Strategies: Student grouping 
0.4.5.7 Teaching Strategies: Study guide 
0.4.5.8 Teaching Strategies: Role playing 
0.5 Semester 1 Lab Ideal Tool Kit 
0.5.1  Ideal tool kit 
0.6 Lesson Plans 
0.6.1  Lesson Plan Template
0.7 First Semester Finals
0.7.1 Skills-based exam and oral exam
Chapter 1: Computer Basics
Chapter Overview
1.1 Basics of Computer Hardware
1.1.1 Major components of a personal computer
1.1.2 Information flow in an idealized computer
1.1.3 The relationship of NICs to PCs
1.1.4 The installation of a NIC in a PC
1.1.5 PC components versus laptop components
1.2 Basics of Computer Software
1.2.1 Lab: Configuring network settings required to connect a PC to a network
1.2.2 Lab: Verify Web browser configuration
1.2.3 Troubleshooting lab: hardware and software
1.3 Binary Numbers
1.3.1 Binary numbers represent alphanumeric data
1.3.2 Bits and bytes
1.3.3 The Base 10 (decimal) number system
1.3.4 The Base 2 (binary) number system
1.3.5 Converting decimal numbers to binary numbers
1.3.6 Converting binary numbers to decimal numbers
1.4 Basic Networking Terminology
1.4.1 Networks and networking
1.4.2 Data networks
1.4.3 Data networking solutions
1.4.4 Local area networks
1.4.5 Wide area networks
1.5 Digital Bandwidth
1.5.1 Digital bandwidth measurements
1.5.2 Three analogies to describe digital bandwidth
1.5.3 Media bandwidth differences
1.5.4 Data throughput in relation to digital bandwidth
1.5.5 Data transfer calculation
1.5.6 The importance of bandwidth
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 2: OSI Model
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
2.1 General Model of Communication
2.1.1 Using layers to analyze problems in a flow of materials
2.1.2 Source, destination, and data packets
2.1.3 Media
2.1.4 Protocol
2.1.5 The evolution of ISO networking standards
2.2 The OSI Reference Model
2.2.1 The purpose of the OSI reference model
2.2.2 The names of the seven layers of the OSI reference model
2.2.3 Descriptions of the seven layers of the OSI reference model
2.2.4 Encapsulation
2.2.5 Names for data at each layer of the OSI model
2.3 Comparison of the OSI Model and the TCP/IP Model
2.3.1 The importance of the TCP/IP reference model
2.3.2 Names and descriptions of the layers of the TCP/IP reference model
2.3.3 TCP/IP protocol graph
2.3.4 Comparison of the OSI model and the TCP/IP model
2.3.5 Use of the OSI and the TCP/IP models in the curriculum
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 3: Local Area Networks
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
3.1 Basic LAN Devices
3.1.1 The teaching topology
3.1.2 LAN devices in a topology
3.1.3 NICs
3.1.4 Media
3.1.5 Repeaters
3.1.6 Hubs
3.1.7 Bridges
3.1.8 Switches
3.1.9 Routers
3.1.10 Clouds
3.1.11 Network segments
3.2 Evolution of Network Devices
3.2.1 Evolution of network devices
3.2.2 Milestones in the history of networking
3.2.3 Evolution of networking devices and the OSI layers
3.3 Basics of Data Flow Through LANs
3.3.1 Encapsulation and packets review
3.3.2 Packet flow through Layer 1 devices
3.3.3 Packet flow through Layer 2 devices
3.3.4 Packet flow through Layer 3 devices
3.3.5 Packet flow through clouds and through Layer 1-7 devices
3.3.6 A data packet's path through all seven layers of a LAN
3.4 Building LANs
3.4.1 Readiness to build a small network
3.4.2 Lab: Building a simple network
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 4: Layer 1 - Electronics and Signals
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
4.1 Basics of Electricity
4.1.1 A helium atom
4.1.2 Creating stable atoms
4.1.3 Static electricity
4.1.4 Electrical current including insulators, conductors, and semiconductors
4.1.5 Electrical measurement terms
4.1.6 Analogy for voltage, resistance, and current
4.1.7 Graphing AC and DC voltage
4.1.8 Constructing a simple series electrical current
4.1.9 Purpose of grounding networking equipment
4.2 Basics of Digital Multimeters
4.2.1 Safe handling and use of the multimeter
4.2.2 Using a multimeter to make resistance measurements
4.2.3 Using a multimeter to make voltage measurements
4.2.4 Measuring simple series circuit
4.2.5 Constructing a simple electrical communication system
4.3 Basics of Signals and Noise in Communications Systems
4.3.1 Comparing analog and digital signals
4.3.2 Using analog signals to build digital signals
4.3.3 Representing one bit on a physical medium
4.3.4 Network signal propagation
4.3.5 Network attenuation
4.3.6 Network reflection
4.3.7 Noise
4.3.8 Dispersion, jitter, and latency
4.3.9 Collision
4.3.10 Messages in terms of bits
4.4 Basics of Encoding Networking Signals
4.4.1 Historical examples of encoding
4.4.2 Modulation and encoding
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 5: Layer 1 -  Media, Connections, and Collisions
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
5.1 Most Common LAN Media
5.1.1 STP
5.1.2 UTP
5.1.3 Coaxial cable
5.1.4 Optical fiber
5.1.5 Wireless communication
5.2 Cable Specification and Termination
5.2.1 Purpose of LAN media specifications
5.2.2 TIA/EIA standards
5.2.3 Explain the details of TIA/TIA-568-A
5.2.4 Networking media and terminations
5.3 Making and Testing Cable
5.3.1 Testing Ethernet 10BASE-T patch cables with a cable tester
5.3.2 Making and testing Ethernet 10BASE-T straight-through patch cable
5.3.3 Making and testing Ethernet 10BASE-T console patch cable
5.3.4 Making and testing Ethernet 10BASE-T crossover cable
5.3.5 Features of an advanced cable tester
5.3.6 Cable identification experiments using an advanced cable tester
5.3.7 Length experiments using an advanced cable tester
5.4 Layer 1 Components and Devices
5.4.1 Ethernet 10BASE-T
5.4.2 Connectors
5.4.3 Cabling
5.4.4 Jacks
5.4.5 Patch panels
5.4.6 Transceivers
5.4.7 Repeaters
5.4.8 Multiport repeaters (hubs)
5.4.9 OSI Layer 1 components and devices
5.5 Collisions and Collision Domains in Shared Layer Environments
5.5.1 Shared media environment
5.5.2 Collisions and collision domains
5.5.3 Signals in a collision
5.5.4 Collisions as natural functions of shared media environments and collision domains
5.5.5 Shared access as a collision domain
5.5.6 Repeaters and collision domains
5.5.7 Hubs and collision domains
5.5.8 Hubs and repeaters as causes of collision domains
5.5.9 The four repeater rule
5.5.10 Segmenting collision domains
5.6 Basic Topologies Used in Networking
5.6.1 Network topologies
5.6.2 Linear bus network topology
5.6.3 Ring network topology
5.6.4 Dual ring network topology
5.6.5 Star network topology
5.6.6 Extended star network topology
5.6.7 Tree network topology
5.6.8 Irregular network topology
5.6.9 Complete (mesh) network topology
5.6.10 Cellular network topology
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 6: Layer 2 - Concepts
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
6.1 LAN Standards
6.1.1 Layer 2
6.1.2 Comparing OSI Layer 1 and 2 with various LAN standards
6.1.3 Comparing the IEEE model with the OSI model
6.1.4 Logical Link Control (LLC)
6.1.5 MAC sublayers
6.1.6 LLC as one of four concepts of Layer 2
6.2 Hexadecimal Numbers
6.2.1 Hexadecimal numbers as MAC addresses
6.2.2 Basic hexadecimal (hex) numbering
6.2.3 Converting decimal numbers to hexadecimal numbers
6.2.4 Converting hexadecimal numbers to decimal numbers
6.2.5 Methods for working with hexadecimal and binary numbers
6.3 MAC Addressing
6.3.1 Data link layer MAC identifiers
6.3.2 MAC address and NICs
6.3.3 How the NIC uses MAC addresses
6.3.4 Layer 2 address encapsulation and decapsulation
6.3.5 Limitations of MAC addressing
6.4 Framing
6.4.1 Why framing is necessary
6.4.2 Frame format diagram
6.4.3 Three analogies for frames
6.4.4 A generic frame format
6.4.5 Frame start fields
6.4.6 Address fields
6.4.7 Length/type fields
6.4.8 Data fields
6.4.9 Frame error problems and solutions
6.4.10 Stop frame field
6.5 Media Access Control (MAC)
6.5.1 Definition of MAC
6.5.2 Three analogies for MAC
6.5.3 Deterministic MAC protocols
6.5.4 Non-deterministic MAC protocols
6.5.5 Three specific technical implementations and their MACs
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 7: Layer 2 - Technologies
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
7.1 Basics of Token Ring
7.1.1 Overview of Token Ring and its variants
7.1.2 Token Ring frame format
7.1.3 Token Ring MAC
7.1.4 Token Ring signaling
7.1.5 Token Ring media and physical topologies
7.2 Basics of Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
7.2.1 Overview of FDDI and its variants
7.2.2 FDDI format
7.2.3 FDDI MAC
7.2.4 FDDI signaling
7.2.5 FDDI media
7.3 Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
7.3.1 Comparing Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
7.3.2 Ethernet family tree
7.3.3 Ethernet frame format
7.3.4 Ethernet MAC
7.3.5 Ethernet signaling
7.3.6 Ethernet 10BASE-T media and topologies
7.4 Layer 2 Devices
7.4.1 NICs
7.4.2 NIC Layer 2 operations
7.4.3 Bridges
7.4.4 Bridge Layer 2 operations
7.4.5 Switches
7.4.6 Switch Layer 2 operations
7.5 Effects of Layer 2 Devices on Data Flow
7.5.1 Ethernet LAN segmentation
7.5.2 Bridge segmentation of a collision domain
7.5.3 Switch segmentation of a collision domain
7.5.4 Router segmentation of a collision domain
7.5.5 Teaching topology segmentation by bridges, switches, and routers
7.6 Basic Ethernet 10BASE-T Troubleshooting
7.6.1 Troubleshooting workstations
7.6.2 Network Inspector discovery lab
7.6.3 Network Inspector problem log lab
7.6.4 Network Inspector frame statistics
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 8: Design and Documentation
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
8.1 Basic Network Design and Documentation
8.1.1 General design process
8.1.2 Network design issues
8.1.3 General network design process
8.1.4 Network design documents
8.2 Planning Structured Cabling: Wiring Closet Specifications
8.2.1 Overview of wiring closet selection 
8.2.2 Size
8.2.3 Environmental specifications
8.2.4 Walls, floors, and ceilings
8.2.5 Temperature and humidity
8.2.6 Lighting fixtures and power outlets
8.2.7 Room and equipment access
8.2.8 Cable access and support
8.3 Planning Structured Cabling: Identifying Potential Wiring Closets
8.3.1 Topology as floor plan
8.3.2 Selecting potential locations
8.3.3 Determining number of wiring closets
8.3.4 Identification practice
8.4 Planning Structured Cabling: Selection Practice
8.4.1 Building description
8.4.2 Closet A
8.4.3 Closet B
8.4.4 Closet C
8.4.5 Closet D
8.4.6 Closet E
8.4.7 Closet F
8.4.8 Closet G
8.4.9 Closet H
8.4.10 Closet I
8.4.11 Closet J
8.5 Planning Structured Cabling: Horizontal and Backbone Cabling
8.5.1 Catchment area problems
8.5.2 MDF location in multi-story building
8.5.3 Example of where you would use multiple wiring closets
8.5.4 Cabling for MDF and IDF connections
8.5.5 Backbone cabling media
8.5.6 TIA/EIA 568-A requirements for backbone cabling
8.5.7 Maximum distance for backbone cabling
8.6 Planning Structured Cabling: Electricity and Grounding
8.6.1 Differences between AC and DC
8.6.2 AC line noise
8.6.3 Electrostatic discharge
8.6.4 Grounding electrical current in computer equipment
8.6.5 Purpose of grounding computer equipment
8.6.6 Safety ground connections
8.6.7 Safety ground connection problems
8.7 Planning Structured Cabling: Cabling and Grounding
8.7.1 Causes of ground potential problems
8.7.2 Networking devices and dangerous circuits
8.7.3 Faulty ground wiring problems
8.7.4 Avoiding potentially dangerous circuits between buildings
8.7.5 How fiber optic cable can prevent electrical shocks
8.7.6 Reasons for using UTP for backbone cabling between buildings
8.8 Design Practice No. 1: Wiring Plan for Ethernet Star Topology LAN
8.8.1 Overview
8.8.2 Main building: first floor
8.8.3 Main building: second floor
8.8.4 East building: first floor
8.8.5 East building: second floor
8.8.6 West building: first floor
8.8.7 West building: second floor
8.9 Design Practice No. 2: Multiple Earth Ground Problems
8.9.1 Overview
8.9.2 Company A: MDF location
8.9.3 Company A: backbone media
8.9.4 Company A: IDFs and ICCs
8.9.5 Company A: HCC locations
8.9.6 Company A: drawing horizontal cabling runs
8.9.7 Company B: MDF location
8.9.8 Company B: backbone media
8.9.9 Company B: drawing horizontal cabling runs
8.10 Network Power Supply Issues: Power Line Problems
8.10.1 Power problem classifications
8.10.2 Normal mode and common mode
8.10.3 Typical power line problems
8.10.4 Sources of surges and spikes
8.10.5 Surge and spike damage
8.10.6 Surge and spike solutions
8.10.7 Sag and brownout solutions
8.10.8 Oscillation solution
8.11 Network Power Supply Issues: Surge Suppressors and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Functions
8.11.1 Surge suppressors: networking device locations
8.11.2 Surge suppressors: for power panel locations
8.11.3 UPS: for certain LAN devices
8.11.4 UPS: for certain electrical problems
8.11.5 UPS: components
8.11.6 UPS: differences in UPS features
8.11.7 UPS: description and operation
Chapter Summary

Chapter Quiz
Chapter 9: Structured Cabling Project
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
9.1 Project Planning
9.1.1 Network installation safety procedures
9.1.2 Network documentation
9.1.3 Network installation teams
9.1.4 Work flow
9.1.5 Scheduling materials flow
9.2 RJ-45 Jack and Outlet Installation
9.2.1 TIA/EIA-568-aA standards
9.2.2 RJ-45 jack
9.2.3 Two methods for mounting an RJ-45 jack
9.2.4 Surface-mounting an RJ-45 jack
9.2.5 Advantages of surface-mounting an RJ-45 jack
9.2.6 Factors to consider before flush-mounting an RJ-45 jack
9.2.7 Preparing a drywall surface for a flush-mounted jack
9.2.8 Preparing a plaster surface for a flush-mounted jack
9.2.9 Preparing a wood surface for a flush-mounted jack
9.2.10 Flush mounting a jack in a wall
9.2.11 Procedure for placing the copper wires into a jack
9.2.12 Procedure for punching wires down into a jack
9.2.13 Installing RJ-45 jack and outlet
9.3 Basics of Cable Installation
9.3.1 Basics of installing UTP cable
9.3.2 Documenting cable runs
9.3.3 TIA/EIA-606 specifications for labeling cable
9.3.4 Types of labels
9.3.5 Preparing cable for routing and labeling
9.3.6 Labeling cable ends
9.4 Structured Cable Run Installation
9.4.1 Easiest procedure for routing cable
9.4.2 Mounting cable in raceway
9.4.3 Running cable through existing raceway
9.4.4 Personal safety precautions before installing cable
9.4.5 Building safety
9.4.6 Supporting horizontal cabling
9.4.7 Stringing cable in an attic, or room with a dropped ceiling
9.4.8 Fishing cable from above a wall
9.4.9 Fishing cable from below a wall
9.5 Stringing, Running, and Mounting Cable
9.5.1 Installation tasks
9.6 Basics of Wiring Closets and Patch Panels 
9.6.1 Wiring closet
9.6.2 Reason for MDFs and IDFs
9.6.3 Patch panel
9.6.4 Structure of a patch panel
9.6.5 Laying wires in a patch panel
9.6.6 Punch tools
9.6.7 Mounting a patch panel
9.7 Range of Equipment for Testing Structured Cabling Projects
9.7.1 Procedures for testing cable already installed 
9.7.2 Network operation testing
9.7.3 Cable testing equipment
9.7.4 Tests performed by cable testers
9.7.5 Cable testers and distance measurements
9.7.6 TDRs (time domain reflectometers)
9.7.7 Wire maps
9.7.8 Split pairs
9.7.9 Signal attenuation
9.7.10 Causes of near-end crosstalk
9.7.11 Problem detected by a noise level test
9.7.12 Using a cable tester to locate sources of outside interference
9.7.13 Cable testing procedures
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Chapter 10: Layer 3 - Routing and Addressing
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
10.1 Importance of a Network Layer
10.1.1 Identifiers
10.1.2 Segmentation and autonomous systems
10.1.3 Communication between separate networks
10.1.4 Layer 3 network devices
10.2 Path Determination
10.2.1 Path determination
10.2.2 Network layer addressing
10.2.3 Layer 3 and computer mobility
10.2.4 Comparing flat and hierarchical addressing
10.3 IP Address within the IP Header
10.3.1 Network layer datagrams
10.3.2 Network layer fields
10.3.3 IP header source and destination fields
10.3.4 IP address as a 32-bit binary number
10.3.5 IP address component fields
10.4 IP Address Classes
10.4.1 IP address classes
10.4.2 IP address as decimal numbers
10.4.3 Binary and decimal conversion review
10.4.4 Converting decimal IP addresses to binary equivalents
10.4.5 Converting binary IP addresses to decimal equivalents
10.5 Reserved Address Space
10.5.1 Purposes for network IDS and broadcast addresses
10.5.2 Network ID
10.5.3 Network ID analogy
10.5.4 Broadcast address analogy
10.5.5 Hosts for classes of IP addresses
10.6 Basics of Subnetting
10.6.1 Classical IP addressing
10.6.2 Subnetwork
10.6.3 Purpose for subnetting
10.6.4 Subnet mask
10.6.5 Boolean operation: AND, OR, and NOT
10.6.6 Performing the AND function
10.7 Creating a Subnet
10.7.1 Range of bits needed to create subnets
10.7.2 Determining subnet mask size
10.7.3 Computing subnet mask and IP address
10.7.4 Computing hosts per subnetwork
10.7.5 Boolean AND operation
10.7.6 IP configuration on a network diagram
10.7.7 Host/subnet schemes
10.7.8 Private addresses
Chapter Summary

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Chapter 11: Layer 3: Protocols
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
11.1 Layer 3 Devices
11.1.1 Routers
11.1.2 Layer 3 addresses
11.1.3 Unique network numbers
11.1.4 Router interface/port
11.2 Network-to-Network Communications
11.2.1 Methods for assigning an IP address
11.2.2 DHCP initialization sequence
11.2.3 IP key components
11.2.4 Function of the address resolution protocol (ARP)
11.2.5 ARP operation within a subnet
11.3 Advanced ARP Concepts
11.3.1 Default gateway
11.3.2 Problems with sending data to nodes on different subnets
11.3.3 How ARP sends data to remote networks
11.3.4 Proxy ARP
11.3.5 Four Layer 3 flowcharts
11.4 Routable Protocols
11.4.1 Routed protocols
11.4.2 Other routed protocols
11.4.3 Routable and non-routable protocols
11.4.4 Characteristics of s routable protocol
11.5 Routing Protocols
11.5.1 Examples of routing protocols
11.5.2 Definition of routing protocol
11.5.3 Routing encapsulation sequence
11.5.4 Multi-protocol routing
11.6 Other Network Layer Services
11.6.1 Connectionless network services
11.6.2 Connection-oriented network services
11.6.3 Comparing connectionless and connection-oriented network processes
11.6.4 IP and transport layer
11.7 ARP Tables
11.7.1 Internetworking devices that have ARP tables
11.7.2 Comparing router ARP tables with ARP tables kept by other networking devices
11.7.3 Other router table addresses
11.7.4 ARP requests and ARP replies
11.7.5 Proxy ARP
11.7.6 Indirect routing
11.8 Interior Gateway Protocols (IGP) and Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP)
11.8.1 Routed protocols and routing protocols
11.8.2 IGPs and EGPs
11.8.3 RIP
11.8.4 IGRP and EIGRP
11.8.5 OSPF
11.8.6 How routers recognize networks
11.8.7 Examples of static routing
11.8.8 Example of dynamic routing
11.8.9 How routers use RIP to route data through a network
11.9 Protocol Analyzer Software
11.9.1 Using protocol analyzer software for ARPs and broadcasts
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Chapter 12: Layer 4 - The Transport Layer
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
12.1 The Transport Layer
12.1.1 Purpose of the transport layer
12.1.2 Layer 4 protocols
12.1.3 Comparing TCP and IP
12.2 TCP and UDP
12.2.1 TCP
12.2.2 UDP segment format
12.3 TCP Connection Methods
12.3.1 Port numbers
12.3.2 Three-way handshake/open connection
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Chapter 13: Layer 5 - The Session Layer
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
13.1 The Session Layer
13.1.1 The session layer overview
13.1.2 The session layer in terms of analogies
13.1.3 Dialogue control
13.1.4 Dialogue separation
13.1.5 Layer 5 protocols
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Chapter 14: Layer 6 - The Presentation Layer
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
14.1 The Presentation Layer
14.1.1 The presentation layer functions and standards
14.1.2 File formats
14.1.3 Data encryption and compression
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Chapter 15: Layer 7 - The Application Layer
Chapter Review
Chapter Overview
15.1 Basics of the Application Layer
15.1.1 Application processes
15.1.2 Direct network applications
15.1.3 Indirect network support
15.1.4 Making and breaking a connection
15.2 Domain Name System
15.2.1 Problems with using IP addresses
15.2.2 The domain name server
15.3 Network Applications
15.3.1 Internet applications
15.3.2 E-mail message
15.3.3 DNS function
15.4 Application Layer Examples
15.4.1 Telnet
15.4.2 File transfer protocol
15.4.3 Hypertext transfer protocol
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