CP5231 - Internetworking Principles

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	Discipline of Information Technology (pre 2009)

Networks and layers, networking devices, IP addressing, ARP and RARP, media and design, topology, structured cabling, electronics, network management,OSI model, layers 1-7, WANs, routing,TCP/IP,routing protocols, network performance analysis.

Learning Outcomes

• compare and contrast details of layers 1,2 and 3 in the context of Ethernet and IP; compare and contrast the details of layers 4,5,6,7 in context of TCP; compare and contrast LANs and WANs layer by layer;
• explain the function of network management tools; build a simple network of hosts, cables, hubs and routers, at layer 1 level; troubleshoot typical physical problems in a small network;
• compare and contrast static and dynamic routing, routed and routing protocols, IGPs and EGPs and RIP and IGRP;
• compare and contrast static versus dynamic routing routed protocols versus routing protocols and distance vector versus link state routing; explain TCP (segment format, prot #s, handshakes) and IP datagrams, ICMP, ARP, RARP;
• use the OSI model to describe direct point to point data communications; address a network, given topology and starting IP address; describe basic inter-networking processes; explain basic electrical and electronic issues in networks.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to select and use appropriate IT tools.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

CP2230 and CP2231 and CP5230

Availabilities
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).
JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53
Census Date 14-Dec-2007
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).
ITTI Sydney, Internal, Study Period 21
Census Date 11-May-2007
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 21
Census Date 11-May-2007
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Lecturer:	Mr Paul Darwen.
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Lecturer:	Mr Paul Darwen.
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).
JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 23
Census Date 14-Dec-2007
Coordinator:	Mr Colin Lemmon
Lecturer:	jc166194.
Contact hours:	30 hours lectures 30 hours tutorials 15 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (40%); quizzes or tests (40%); laboratory tasks (20%).

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