Tutorials by InetDaemon

THEORY

1. OSI Model
2. Concepts: Digital vs. Analog, Duplex vs. Simplex; Frames, Packets & PDU's; Asynchronous/Synchronous, Circuits, Media, Parallel/Serial, Point-to-Point, Peer-to-Peer, Client-Server, Connection Oriented/Connectionless, Reliable vs. Unreliable, CRC Check
3. Number Systems: Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal
4. Signalling: Signals, Wavelength, Phase, Amplitude, Frequency, Carrier, Analog vs. Digital, Media, Power / Strength
5. Modulation: Return to Zero, Non-Return to Zero, AMI, Manchester, Differential Manchester

COMPUTERS

1. Hardware: Motherboard components: Clock, Multiplier, Bus, CPU, Memory, I/O Controller, PCI & ISA
2. Software:
   1. Operating Systems: BSD, Unix, Linux, HP-UX, Windows, MacOS
   2. Drivers
   3. Applications

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

1. IEEE 802.x protocol Specification Documents (a list)
2. Network Topologies: Bus, Hub and Spoke (star), Point-to-Point, Point-to-Multipoint
3. ARP / RARP (address resolution)
4. BootP
5. DHCP
6. Bridging
7. Switching
8. Ethernet
9. FDDI
10. Token Ring
11. ATM LANE

WIDE AREA NETWORKS

1. Serial: v35, v.24, RS-232, EIA/TIA232;
2. HDLC
3. SDLC
4. PPP
5. ATM

SATELLITE

SECURITY

 

INTERNET

1. Internet Protocol (IP)
2. Transmission Control Protocol (TCP and TCP/IP)
3. Domain Name Service (DNS)
4. File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
5. Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
6. Internet Gateway Management Protocol (IGMP)
7. Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
8. Internet Protocol v6 (next generation/IPnG)
9. Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
10. Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
11. Multicast
12. Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP)
13. Network Time Protocol (NTP)
14. Post Office Protocol v3 (POP3)
15. Quality Of Service
16. E-MAIL : Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
17. Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
18. Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
19. Secure SHell (ssh)
20. Telnet
21. Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
22. User Datagram Protocol (UDP and UDP/IP)
23. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)

WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)

1. Web Servers
2. Web Browsers
3. Web Pages
4. Web Portals
5. Search Engines
6. HypeText Transport Protoco (HTTP)
7. HTML (Creating a web page)
8. SGML
9. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
10. CGI Scripting
    1. Server Side Includes
    2. JavaScript
    3. Perl / PHP
    4. ASP / JScript / VBScript
11. Java

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

1. Public Switched Telephone Network (North America)
2. X.25 (grandfather of all telecom protocols)
3. Frame Relay
4. Switched Multi-megabit Data Services (SMDS)
5. Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
6. Digital Signalling System
7. n-Carrier systems

1. T-Carrier	T1	T2	T3	T4
   J-Carrier	J1	J2	J3	J4
   E-Carrier	E1	E2	E3	E4

8. Optical Cabling
   OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192
9. SONET
10. Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)
11. xDSL
12. Signalling System 7
13. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

TROUBLESHOOTING

1. Methodology

 

 

 

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