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Teaching and Learning Plan for: CTEC1767 Data Communications and Networking I

Instructor:  Mike Boldin

Contact Information:

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Evaluation Details:

Course Plan:

The outlines contained in this document present a "best case" scenario. They may be re-scheduled and/or modified due to changing circumstances, including, but not limited to:  power outages, sickness, school closures (snow days, etc.), equipment failures, software failures, and fire/lockdown drills.  Labs may be modified to work on Niagara College lab equipment.

Lab work:

All lab work is due by the end of the lab period.  Lab work which is not accepted by the professor for any reason at the sole discretion of the professor will be required to be completed satisfactorily. Late assignments lose 10% per day late. Labs and assignments which have not been completed by April 20 will automatically receive mark of zero.

Missed tests:

In all cases, it is the student's responsibility to contact the professor, prior to the scheduled test time, if s/he will be unable to write the test at that time. Missed tests will be given a mark of zero and there will be no rewrites. Exemptions from any test may be given with proper doctors' documentation of illness or other valid reason at the sole discretion of the professor.

Course attendance:

The student is to be guided by his/her own maturity and responsibility. Attendance and completion of labs are essential for successful completion of this course. Experience has shown a positive relationship between attendance and final proficiency for most students.

Reading & Reference Material

1.	Employ various data communication methods.
		Communication theory  Communications system  Data communications  Data transmission  Communications protocol  Code  Error detection and correction  Local area network  Campus area network  Metropolitan area network  Wide area network  IEEE Standards Association  Outline of telecommunication  Portal:Telecommunication  Telecommunication  History of telecommunication  List of telecommunications regulatory bodies  Telecommunications in Canada  Internet in Canada  Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission  Telecommunications Act (Canada)  Telecommunications in the United States  Federal Communications Commission  International Telecommunication Union International Telecommunication Union (ITU)  International Electrotechnical Commission  Narrowband  Wideband  Broadband  Modem  Cable modem  Broadband Internet access  Plain old telephone service  Public switched telephone network  PSTN network topology  Telecommunication circuit  Dedicated circuit  Demarcation point  ISDN  Basic Rate Interface  Primary Rate Interface  SONET  VPN
	1.1	Set up a data communications/terminal emulation program to provide communication between personal computer (local) and server (remote) using null modem connections and to transfer files.
		Computer terminal  Serial port  Data Terminal Equipment  Data circuit-terminating equipment  Serial transmission  Communication software  Terminal emulator  Personal computer  Null modem  File transfer  Electronic Industries Alliance Electronic Industries Alliance (EIA) Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)  RS-232 The RS232 Standard Connecting the Console Port to a PC
	1.2	Differentiate between various data communications media.
		Transmission medium  Communications channel  Electromagnetic radiation  Conductive  Network cable  Cable  Wire  Coaxial cable  RG-6  Category 3 cable  Category 5 cable  Category 6 cable  Category 7 cable  Optical fiber connector  Power line communication  On-premises wiring  Riser cable  Wireless  Wireless network  Microwave radio  Broadcast radio  Packet radio  Copper wire  Optical fibre  Twisted pair  Optical communication  Fiber-optic communication  CSMA/CD  Token ring  Token bus network  Ethernet  FDDI  Circuit switching  Message switching  Packet switching  Cell relay
	1.3	Analyze information sent in both asynchronous and synchronous formats.
		Bit  Digital signal  Analog signal  Bit rate  Baud  Bandwidth (computing)  Signal bandwidth  Throughput  Channel capacity  Goodput  Frequency  Asynchronous communication  Comparison of synchronous and asynchronous signalling  Multiplexing  Frequency-division multiplexing  Time-division multiplexing  Wavelength Division Multiplexing  FDMA  Time-division multiple access  Code division multiple access  Amplitude modulation  Frequency modulation  Phase modulation  Quadrature amplitude modulation  Simplex communication  Half duplex  Forward error correction  Parallel communication
2.	Administer and operate a computer network.
	2.1	Configure and connect a computer to the Internet using a direct IP connection using various data communications media.
		Internet  Intranet  History of the Internet  Category:Internet governance  Internet organizations  Internet Protocol Suite  Internet Society ISOC  Internet Assigned Numbers Authority IANA  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN  Internet Engineering Task Force  Routing  Private network  Internetworking
	2.2	Use command line and GUI file transfer programs to send and receive files over the internet.
		Command line  GUI  File Transfer Protocol  Secure Shell
	2.3	Demonstrate the OSI (open systems interconnect) layered communications model as it relates to real computer networks.
		International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization (ISO)  OSI model
	2.4	Explain how and why to use different OSI layer devices and media when planning a data communications network.
		Network bridge  Router  Firewall (computing)
	2.5	Efficiently use the WWW (world wide web) to search for information related to data comm.
		World Wide Web  Web search engine  World Wide Web Consortium
	2.6	Design, install and configure a Local area network (LAN).
		Network topology  Peer-to-peer  Server (computing)  Client (computing)  Client-server  Network management  Comparison of network monitoring systems  Physical security  Computer security  Computer insecurity  Application security  Network security

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