IT Infrastructure & Networking

Course Overview

Our IT Infrastructure and Networking course is intended to get you excited about your new career in Information Technology. It is designed to expose you to the fundamentals that every IT professional should know about computers, networking, and the IT field in general regardless of which IT track you decide to pursue. It will also help you develop your IT vocabulary and toolbox.

7 Modules

8 Weeks

Modules

MODULE 1

Computer Language
Character Encoding
Binary
Counting in Binary
Computer Architechture Layer (Overview)
BIOS
What is an Operating System?
Filesystems
Process and Application Management
Memory Management
I/O Management
Logs
The Boot Process

MODULE 2

Software
Types of Software
Recipe for Computing
Managing and Installing software
The Basics to Troubleshooting
Basics of Networking
Networking Hardware
Language of the Internet

MODULE 3

TCP/IP & 5 Layer Model
Cables
Hubs and Switches
Routers
Servers and Clients
Moving Bits Across the Wire
Duplexing
Network Ports
Ethernet and Mac Addresses
Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast
Dissecting Ethernet Frame (Data Packet)

MODULE 4

Network Layer
IP Addresses
IP Datagram and Encapsulation
IP Address Classes
Address Resolution Protocol
Subnetting
Subnet Masks (How to Calculate Them)
Basic Binary Math
Routing
Routing Tables
Interior Gateway Protocols
Exterior Gateway Protocols
Non-Routable Address Space

MODULE 5

Transport Layer
TCP and the 3 Way Handshake
TCP Socket States
Connection-Oriented and Connectionless
Protocols
Firewalls
Application Layer
All 5 Layers working in Unison
Name Resolution (DNS)
What actually happens in the background
for DNS?
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
What is Network Address Translation (NAT)?
Port Forwarding and Transport Layer for NAT
VPN
Proxies
Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Wireless Networking
Troubleshooting: Verifying Network
Connectivity
Troubleshooting: Digging into DNS
Future of Networking: IPv6 Addressing
Future of Networking: IPv6 Headers
Future of Networking: IPv6 and IPv4 Harmony

MODULE 6

Cloud Computing
Careers in Cloud Computing
Becoming a Power User
Filesystem Hierarchy
File Management

MODULE 7

User Management
Software Management
Patch Management
Resource Monitoring
Remote Access
Remote File Transfer Protocols
System Monitoring
System Administration Tasks and Services
User and Hardware Provisioning
Types of IT Infrastructure Services
Centralized Management Methods
Data Recovery and Backups
Wrap-up

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