Networking and Protocols

1. Fundamentals of Networking

• TCP/IP
• Protocols
• Network Adapter
• Local Area Network (LAN)
• Wide Area Network (WAN)
• Peer-to-peer
• Client-Server
• Network Topologies
  • Bus
  • Star
  • Ring
  • Token Ring
  • Mesh
  • Full Mesh
  • Hybrid
  • Point-to-multipoint

2. Network Cables and Transmission

• Network cables
  • coaxial
  • twisted-pair
  • fiber-optic
• Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI)
• Megabits per second (Mbps)
• Gigabits per second (Gbps)
• Megabytes per second (MBps)
• Gigabytes per second (GBps)
• Baseband
• Shielded Twisted Pairs (STP)
• Unshielded Twisted Pairs (UTP)
• RJ-45
• CAT5, 5E, 6 cabling
• Single-mode
• Multimode
• Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM)
• Multimode Fiber-Optic
• Wireless Access Point (WAP)
• Service Set Identifier (SSID)
• Wireless Frequency Ranges
• Hertz
• Data Transmission Methods
  • Baseband
  • Broadband
• Data signaling methods
  • Digital
  • Analog
• Half-duplex
• Full-duplex
• IEEE 802
• IEEE 802.3
• IEEE 802.11

3. Digital / Telecommunications Convergence

• Transoceanic Cable
• Digital Signal 1
• E-carrier
• Optical Carrier transmission rates
• Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
• Asymmetric DSL (ADSL)
• Symmetric DSL (SDSL)
• Very High Bitrate DSL (VDSL)
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)
• Geostationary orbit
• Elliptical/Non-Geostationary orbit
• footprint
• Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT)
• TCP/IP Protocol Suite

4. The OSI and TCP/IP Model

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• ISO Model
• Protocol Data Unit (PDU)
• Application Programming Interfaces

5. Introduction to Network Devices

• Network Interface Card (NIC)
• Repeaters
• Hubs
• Switches
• Routers

6. Addressing

• Unicast
• Multicast
• Broadcast
• Anycast
• Media Access Control (MAC) address
• Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI)
• Internet Protocol (IP) address
• IP Network Part
• IP Host Part
• Subnet Mask
• Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
• Variable-Length Subnet Masking (VLSM)
• Subnetting
• Supernetting
• IP Classes
• Private IP ranges
• Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA)
• Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
• ARP cache
• Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP)
• IP Broadcast address
• MAC Broadcast address
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Static NAT
• Dynamic NAT
• Port Address Translation (PAT)
• Ports
• Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
• Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
• Route Aggregation
• Dual stacking
• Translation
• Tunneling
• Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP)

8. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

• Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
• ICMPv6

9. Transport Layer Protocols

• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• Three-way handshake
• TCP flags
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)

10. Application Layer Protocols

• Ports
• Well-Known Ports
• Registered Ports
• Ephemeral Ports
• Socket
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
• DORA Process
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Root name servers
• Top-Level Domains (TLDs)
• Generic TLD (gTLD)
• Sponsored TLD (sTLD)
• Country Code TLD (ccTLD)
• Brand gTLD
• Top-Level Domains (TLDs)
• Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
• Absolute domain name
• DNS Resource Records
• DNS Queries
• Iterative
• Recursive
• DNS Forwarder
• DNS Caching
• Zone Transfers
• Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)
• Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
• Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 (IMAP4)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
• Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Active Mode
• Passive Mode
• Secure Shell (SSH)
• Diffie-Hellman key exchange
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

11. Specialty Networks

• Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA)
• Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
• Virtual Private Network (VPN)

12. Cloud Computing

• Cloud
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• IBM Cloud
• Digital Ocean
• Public Cloud
• Private Cloud
• Community Cloud
• Hybrid Cloud
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

13. Information and Data Security

• CIA Triad
• Information Assurance (IA)

14. Network Security

• Network security
• Network Threats
• Uninterruptible power supply (UPS)
• Redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID)
• Physical Access
• Logical Access
• Remote Access
• Malicious Software (Malware)
• Virus
• Worm
• Trojan
• Rootkit
• Bootkit
• Adware
• Spyware
• Ransomware
• Social Engineering
• Phishing
• Spear Phishing
• Whaling
• Denial of Service (DoS)
• Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
• Firewalls
• Host-based
• Network-based
• Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
• Host-based
• Network-based
• Intrusion prevention systems (IPS)