BIT 526

We had the final lecture, quiz and exam last Thursday.

I have almost talked myself into taking the Network+ cert, but I am not sure if it will be useful to me or not.

Anyway, grades posted today and my A brought my GPA up to 3.925

I've already registered for the Winter semester, I am enjoying only taking one class at a time.

BIT 526 Lab

We have been working with a virtual lab environment to do some basic networking labs.

Our first assignment was to take the 3 virtual machines we were provided and install Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Ubuntu on them.

After installing the OSs we had to turn our Server 2003 into a Domain Controller and join the XP machine to the domain. Then we set up a file share on our Ubuntu machine using Samba, that was a fun experience in Linux command line for me...

Also, we installed IIS and are hosting our own website on the Server 2003 machine.

I still need to finish the Wireshark exercises, that should be interesting.

BIT 526 - Enterprise Network Architectures

I start this course tonight with Professor Eric Hughes

BIT 526 - Enterprise Network Architectures - 3 Credit Hours

This course covers a wide range of topics from local area to wide area networks, protocols, topologies, transmission media, and security. Students will examine the most significant aspects of networking and will examine some relevant topics in-depth. Coverage includes standards, logical and physical architectures, operating systems (i.e., Novell, MicrosoftWindows, and Linux), TCP/IP protocol suite, and troubleshooting and maintenance processes.