Fundamentals of Computer Networking

Program Description:

River Valley Community College, in association with Program Development in Cybersecurity with Focus on Business and Healthcare Concepts, has developed a 4-semester program to prepare students to working the Information Assurance (IA) field with a focus on Cybersecurity and Healthcare IT. Courses are intended to prepare students for assuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and networks in healthcare settings, where scheduling, storage of images, filling prescriptions, billing and more are handled and stored using information technology.

Course Description:

This Course from River Valley Community College center focuses on computer networking fundamentals, and asks students to consider how a network works, and how the network, and its services, impacts the security architecture of an organization. In completing the course, students will have an understanding of: 1) Network addressing, 2) Network services, 3) Networking in the enterprise, 4) Exploring the enterprise network infrastructure, 5) Switching in an enterprise network, 6) Routing with a distance vector protocol, 7) Routing with a link-state protocol, 8) Filtering traffic using access control lists (ACLs), 9) Characterizing the existing network, 10) Identifying application impacts on the network design, and 11) Creating the networking design.

Resources available as part of this course include a course outline and a syllabus from the Spring 2014 iteration of the course.

For orientation purposes, viewers should begin with CYBS 125R Fundamentals of Computer Networking.pdf, which offers a description of the course as well as an overview of topics covered through a course outline.

Course Contents:

The 2-page Course Outline document includes a course description, course competencies, course topics outline, learning and instructional methods for the course, and performance evaluation information.

The 3-page syllabus document includes course objectives, information on required materials, overview of course structure and policies, course topics, and information on assessment and grading of the course.

Below is a list of the files attached. The size of each file is included in parenthesis.

Fundamentals of Computer Networking (2 files)

• Fundamentals of Computer Networking Course Outline (CYBS 125R Fundamentals of Computer Networking.pdf 115KB)
• Fundamentals of Computer Networking Syllabus (Syllabus CYSC125 Fundamentals of Computer Networking S15.pdf 106KB)