Understanding Computer Networks
Track IT Hardware, Networking & Cyber Security
Duration 30 hours
Skill Level Beginner
Language English

About this Course

Learn the basics of networking, including protocols, topologies, and internet fundamentals.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home

Detailed Course Curriculum

Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.

  • Basics of Networking 1
  • Basics of networking 2
  • Terms in Networking
  • Client Server model
  • Testimonial of Industry expert
  • Local Area Networks (LANs)
  • Campus Area Networks (CANs)
  • Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs)
  • Wide Area Networks (WANs)
  • Types of Network
  • Networking Devices -2
  • Wide Area Networks part 2
  • Storage Area Networks (SANs)
  • Personal Area Networks (PANs)
  • Network devices - 1
  • Network devices - 2
  • Wireless Range Extenders
  • Modems
  • SOHO devices
  • Firewalls and Load Balancer
  • Installing Firewall software
  • OSI Model
  • Network segmentation 1
  • Network segmentation 2
  • About security and performance 1
  • About security and performance 2
  • Network Topology
  • TCP/IP model
  • Network Protocols part -1
  • Network Protocols part -2
  • Network Protocols part - 3
  • Network Protocols -4
  • Network Protocols - 5
  • TCP/IP model
  • Network Protocols - 6
  • Telnet
  • Configuring Telnet
  • Transmission methods part 1
  • Transmission methods part 2
  • Protocol data units
  • TCP/IP overview 1
  • TCP/IP overview 2
  • TCP/IP Layers- 1
  • TCP/IP Layers - 2
  • TCP/IP Layers - 3
  • TCP/IP Layers - 4
  • Wiring Standards and cable types
  • Network Cabling
  • Crimping process
  • Cable Performance and troubleshooting - Part 1
  • Cable Performance and troubleshooting - Part 2
  • Understanding Binary Math
  • Number systems used in computers
  • MAC address structure
  • IPv4 address
  • IPv4 subnet masks
  • IPv6 subnet masks
  • Assigning IPv4 addresses
  • Assigning IPv6 addresses
  • Difference between static and dynamic IP address
  • IP addressing security
  • Protect and hide IP address
  • Proxy server part - 1
  • Proxy server part - 2
  • Configuring IP address in Windows 10
  • Calculating IP subnets and hosts
  • Classful subnetting
  • Subnetting concepts
  • Class A subnets
  • Class B subnets
  • Class C subnets
  • IPV6 Fundamentals-1
  • Configuring IPv6 in network
  • Planning a network -1
  • Planning a network - 2
  • Ethernet Standards 1
  • Ethernet Standards 2
  • Network ports
  • How do network ports affect cybersecurity?
  • Port scanner utility
  • Configuring DHCP in small networks
  • What is DNS?
  • WINS vs DNS
  • Overview of DNS -2
  • DNS spoofing and DNS server
  • DNS lookup
  • DNS Lookup Practical
  • Finding DNS part -1
  • Finding DNS part -2
  • Understanding Switches
  • Types of Switches
  • Virtual LAN Part 1
  • Virtual LAN Part 2
  • Layer 3 switches
  • Understanding Routers part -1
  • Understanding Routers part -2
  • Understanding Routers part -3
  • Understanding Routers part -4
  • Routing Basics- 1
  • Routing Basics - 2
  • Routing Basics - 3
  • Routing Basics - 4
  • Routing Basics - 5
  • Prioritizing Traffic 1
  • Prioritizing Traffic 2
  • Network Switching
  • Circuit switching
  • Message switching
  • Packet switching
  • Network Security - 1
  • Network Security - 2
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

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