Academic year/semester: 2024/25/2

ECTS Credits: 4

Available for: All OU students

Lecture hours: 2
Seminarium:0
Practice: 0
Laboratory: 2
Consultation: 0

Prerequisites: -

Course Leader: dr. Nagy Rezső

Faculty: Alba Regia Technical Faculty, 8000 Székesfehérvár, Budai út 45.

Course Description:
This course focuses on switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks, including wireless local area networks (WLAN) and security concepts. You’ll perform basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identify and mitigate LAN security threats, and configure and secure a basic WLAN.

Competences:
Work with routers, switches and wireless devices to configure and troubleshoot VLANs, Wireless LANs and Inter-VLAN routing. - Configure and troubleshoot redundancy on a switched network using STP and EtherChannel. - Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills using real equipment and Cisco Packet Tracer. - Explain how to support available and reliable networks using dynamic addressing and first-hop redundancy protocols.

Topics:
1. Available and Reliable Networks
2. L2 Security and WLANs
3. Redundant Networks
4. Routing Concepts and Configuration
5. Switching Concepts
6. DHCPv4
7. DHCPv6
8. VLANs
9. Inter-VLAN Routing
10.Troubleshoot Static and Default Routes
11. Case Study 1.
12. Case Study 2.
13. Final Exam
14. Improvement

Assessment: Online chapter assessments, PT skills assessments and Final Exam (min. 80%).

Exam Types:

Final Exam

Compulsory bibliography: online material

Recommended bibliography: -

Additional bibliography: -

Additional Information: -