CET 1600 NETWORK FUNDAMENTALS 3 credits

This is the first of four courses designed to provide students with classroom and laboratory experience to achieve professional certification as a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). Instruction includes, but is not limited to networking, network terminology and protocols, network standards, local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), the open system interconnection (OSI) reference model, cabling, routers, router configuration , LAN/WAN topologies, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing and network standards. Students will install, configure and operate a simple-routed/switched LAN, and routed WAN. 47 contact hours.