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NET 728 - Cisco Dev Ops


Course Department: Business
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2022

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

Course Description:
This course will prepare the students to take the CyberOps Associate certification.  This course prepares you for an associate-level job role so you can prevent, detect, and defend against cybersecurity threats. The course can launch your career, by showing hiring managers you have the real-world knowledge and skills to be a valuable member of any SOC team.  To earn the CyberOps Associate certification, you pass one exam. The 200-201 Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals (CBROPS) exam focuses on your knowledge of associate level cyber operations including security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies and procedures. 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 110 - Microcomputer Fundamentals , NET 138 - Introduction to Networks , NET 178 - Intro to Cyber Security , NET 562 - Firewall Security , NET 612 - Fundamentals Network Security   
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:
Student Learning Outcomes:

a. Identify the basic concepts of the Windows operating system
b. Identify the basic concepts of the Linux operating system
c. Identify and classify network protocols and services
d. Identify the basic concepts and components network infrastructure 
e. Principles of network security
f. Network attacks
g. Protecting the network
h. Cryptography
i. Endpoint Security
j. Security Monitoring 
k. Intrusion data Analysis
l. Incident response



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