WEEK 5 LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Day 1
- List current market trends that are driving
the network industry forward.
- Draw the basic model of transmission.
- List the three common wired transmission media.
- List three common wireless transmission network
types.
- Compare and contrast WANs and
LANs.
- Compare and contrast
circuit-switched and packet-switched networks.
- Define protocol.
- List the three rule-sets common in protocol
specifications.
- List the five classic protocol layers.
- State the name given to the numerical address
that identifies the process that is sending or receiving the data.
- Compare and contrast the
type of connection service offered by TCP and UDP as transport-layer
protocols.
Day 2
- Describe how the TCP/IP protocol suite adds
overhead bits to a data payload.
- Justify UDP as a transport option.
- Describe the two principle differences between
IPv4 and IPv6.
- Describe the role of routers in network
interconnection. Include TCP/IP layers classically
implemented by a router.
- Diagram the OSI protocol stack in order from top
to bottom.
- Compare and contrast OSI and
TCP/IP stacks.