TITLE: Network Operating Systems

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
   A primarily lab-based course, studying network operating systems and network administrative functions necessary to implement and maintain modern Local Area Networks. One hour lecture and four hours laboratory.
   
   
2. PURPOSE:
   Develop the skills necessary to administer and maintain a variety of LAN structures and protocols.
   
   
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
   To provide the Telecommunications student with the skills necessary to design and maintain a variety of modern LAN operating systems. Design, Implementation and Setup, as well as troubleshooting and maintaining.
   
   
4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
   
   1. Topologies
      
      1. Token Ring
         
      2. Bus/Ethernet
         
      3. Wireless
   2. Network Operating Systems
      
      1. Novell
         
      2. AppleTalk
         
      3. Linux
         
      4. 2000, XP, etc.
         
      5. Interoperating NOS's
   3. Network Administration
      
      1. Planning Domains
         
      2. User and Group Management
         
      3. Profiles
         
      4. Printing
         
      5. RAID arrays and backup
         
      6. DNS
         
      7. DHCP
         
      8. WINS
         
      9. RAS
         
      10. Performance Tuning
          
      11. Creating a Secure Environment
   4. Network Services
      
      1. Telnet & Remote Login
         
      2. Web Server: HTTP
         
      3. Email: SMTP, POP, IMAP & MIME
         
      4. FTP & TFTP
         
      5. Management: ICMP, SNMP, IGMP
   
   
5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
   Lecture & Discussion, Demonstration, and Lab work.
   
   
6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
   Four hours of laboratory work each week.
   
   
7. RESOURCES:
   Web-Page references.
   
   
8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
1. GRADING FACTORS:

   Factor	Final Grade %
   7 Exam Grades	40%
   Lab Reports	60%

   
   
2. GRADING SCALE

   Average		Grade
   90 or above		A
   80 - 89%		B
   70 - 79%		C
   60 - 69%		D
   Below 60%		E

3. ATTENDANCE POLICY:
   This course will adhere to the policy published in the MSU Undergraduate Bulletin. Attendance will be recorded for each laboratory session. One unexcused absence in each half of the semester will result in a grade reduction for the laboratory report for that missed laboratory session. Two or more unexcused absences within either half of the semester will automatically result in a failing grade for the course. Make-up exams will be given only for excused absences.
   
   
4. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY:
   Cheating, plagiarism (submitting another person's material as one's own), or doing work for another person which will receive academic credit are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination; the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports or term papers; or the presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student's own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place.
   
   
5. TEXT AND REFERENCES:
   Red Hat Linux 7.1 by Christopher Negus
   
   
6. PREREQUISITES:
   None.