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Week | Lecture Topic | Lab Assignment |
1 | Introduction to Communications |
None |
2 | Analog and Digital Communications | None |
3 | Data Transmission Concepts | None |
4 | ISO/OSI and TCP/IP Fundamentals |
None |
5 | TCP/IP Applications | Configuring a Host file, remote computing with FTP and Telnet, remote website management and TCP/IP command line processing. |
6 | Communication Hardware and Infrastructure | Familiarization with communication media, communication ports, and network hardware. |
7 | LAN Theory | Demonstrations of the following: Network hardware, Windows resource sharing and thin-client computing. |
8 | Peer-to-Peer and Wireless Networking | Configuring a peer-to-peer network, testing and troubleshooting client connectivity, exploring the network, file and printer sharing and wireless networking. |
9 | Security and Reliability | Demonstration of VPN, firewall configuration (switching, Network Address Translation (NAT) and DHCP) and advanced wireless security. |
10 | Project Presentations | Presentations |
10 | Cloud Computing Applications | Bonus Lecture |
11 | Final Examination |
Assessment and Letter Grade
Examination | Contribution |
Midterm 1 | 20% |
Midterm 2 | 25% |
Final | 40% |
Project | 15% |
Total | 100% |
The first and the second mid-term examinations will be held on the fourth and seventh weeks respectively. For the night classes, the examination will begin at 8:00 p.m. and end at 9:30 p.m. For the classes that meet twice a week during the day time, the examinations will be held on the second class meeting of the fourth and seventh weeks respectively. In this case, the examination will commence at the beginning of the class meeting. The duration of each midterm examination is 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Week | Topic | Questions (Approximate) |
1 | Communication Trends | |
2 | Overview of Analog and Digital Technologies | |
Digitization of Data | ||
Digitization of Audio | ||
Digitization of Image | ||
Digitization of Video | ||
3 | Electronic and Optical Transmission | |
Formatting of Information for Transmission | ||
Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission | ||
Serial and Parallel Transmission Standards | ||
Multiplexing | ||
Error in Communications | ||
Total |
Week | Topic | Questions (Approximate) |
4 | ISO/OSI Model |
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Overview of TCP/IP | ||
IP Addressing Explored | ||
Subnetting and Routing |
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5 |
DNS and Host Name Resolution | |
TCP/IP in the Windows |
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TCP/IP Commands | ||
6 | Communication Media |
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Microcomputer and Communications | ||
ISDN, ATM and VPN | ||
Internet Infrastructure |
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Total |
Final Examination
The final examination will be held on the date and time printed on the Class Schedule. The duration of the examination is 2 hours and 30 minutes. Emphasis will be placed on the material covered after the last midterm examination. The examination may also include an essay component in addition to the section containing multiple-choice questions. The number of multiple-choice questions will vary between100 to 125, again depending on the material covered after the second midterm examination.
Two Scantrons are therefore required for the final examination. The number of essay questions, if present, will vary between 2 and 4. The final examination will also be a closed-book examination with the exception of a cheat-sheet allowed during the course of the examination to be used as a reference.
Week | Topic | Questions (Approximate) |
7 |
LAN Definition and Function |
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LAN Functional Architectures | ||
Topologies and Protocols |
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Network Hardware |
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8 | P2P: Configuration Overview | |
Network Adapter Configuration | ||
Client Configuration | ||
Protocol Configuration | ||
Naming and Joining a Network |
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Troubleshooting a Client | ||
Creating a User |
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Folder Sharing |
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Sharing Network Resources |
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Sharing Network Printers | ||
9 | Introduction to Security |
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Network Reliability | ||
Introduction to Firewalls | ||
Software Firewalls | ||
Hardware Firewalls | ||
Advanced Hardware Firewall Features |
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Total |
Examination | Week | Time | Coverage |
Midterm 1 | 4th |
Midterm 1 Schedule |
Weeks 1-3 |
Midterm 2 | 7th | Midterm 2 Schedule |
Weeks 4-6 |
Final | 11th | As printed in the schedule | Weeks 7-10 |
Policy on Make-up Examination
In the extreme event that a make-up examination is conducted, the penalties assigned due to the delay in conducting the examination will be as follows:
Examination Delay Penalties
- 1 Week 15%
- 2 Weeks or more 25%
The recommended textbook shown above can be purchased at the University bookstore.

- Students are required to carry a student ID with them at all times, both during regular class meetings and during examinations.
- Students
not enrolled in the class will not be given a grade even though they
sit for examinations and complete their lab assignments. A grade change
request will not be approved in this case.
- It is the responsibility of the students to check and ensure, on the second week of the quarter, that they are officially enrolled in the class.
- Information about the course will largely be disseminated through this website
- Course slides, notes and video tutorials for each week of lecture are available on this website for downloading
- Students are required to bring a headphone with a volume control to each class meeting
- A USB flash disk with a minimum of 16G Bytes of storage space is recommended for downloading newer multimedia lecture modules
- Duration of class meetings may be reduced by an appropriate length of time to facilitate Technology Mediated Learning (TML)
- The cumulative grade is composed of individual grades received from the three examinations and the project work
- The letter grade is assigned based on a curve depicting the distribution of the cumulative scores of students in the class
- The two midterm examinations will be conducted on the 4th and 7th weeks of the quarter respectively
- The final examination will be held on the date and time printed on the class schedule obtained from the following link: Final Exam
- A cheat-sheet is allowed for both the mid-term and the final examinations
- A make-up examination is not normally offered
- A group project is to be completed where the end result would be a group presentation
- The project report is essentially the presentation slides to be submitted electronically
- Students will be required to create a OneDrive folder for storing and sharing the project presentation
- Project presentations are scheduled for the ninth and tenth weeks of the quarter
- The presentation slides are due immediately after the in-class presentation
- A separate report other than the presentation slides is not required
- Appropriate citations must be included for material from sources obtained and included in the slides