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NET 230 - Routing and Switching


Last Date of Approval: Fall 2021

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
Routing and Switching focuses on switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks and includes wireless local area networks (WLAN) and security concepts. Students learn key switching and routing concepts. They can perform basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identify, and mitigate LAN security threats, and configure and secure a basic WLAN. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various technology topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the technology and how to apply those concepts in a lab setting, which is a skill that should be beneficial in any/all types of technology careers. This course will also help students gain hands-on technology literacy which will be of vital significance when making important work-related decisions.

Prerequisites: NET 138  
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: Face-to-Face: None; Online: 8-week online students will have a per credit hour e-book fee automatically charged to their account.

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
A)    Configure VLANs and Inter-VLAN routing, applying security best practices. 
B)    Troubleshoot inter-VLAN routing on Layer 3 devices.
C)    Configure redundancy on a switched network using STP and EtherChannel. 
D)    Troubleshoot EtherChannel on switched networks. 
E)    Explain how to support available and reliable networks using dynamic addressing and first-hop redundancy protocols.
F)    Configure WLANs using a WLC and L2 security best practices.
G)    Configure switch security to mitigate LAN attacks.
H)    Configure IPv4 and IPv6 static routing on routers.
 



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