Mastering the IT Networking Fundamentals: Full Course

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Welcome to the course

Lecture 2: BEST way of taking this course

Chapter 2: Network and it's elements

Lecture 1: What is a Network?

Lecture 2: What are Nodes?

Lecture 3: Concept of Intermediary Nodes

Chapter 3: Types of Topologies

Lecture 1: What is a Topology?

Lecture 2: The traditional Bus Topology

Lecture 3: Is Bus topology of advantage?

Lecture 4: Ring Topology

Lecture 5: Merits of Ring Topology

Lecture 6: Star Topology

Lecture 7: Mesh Topology

Lecture 8: Hybrid Topology

Chapter 4: Types of Networks

Lecture 1: Types of Networks

Lecture 2: PAN- Personal Area Networks

Lecture 3: LAN Vs MAN Vs WAN Networks

Lecture 4: Types of Cables: Wired Connectivity

Lecture 5: Coaxial and Fiber Optic Cables

Lecture 6: Networks with Wireless Connectivity

Chapter 5: Networking Devices with CISCO Packet tracer

Lecture 1: Installing CISCO Packet Tracer

Lecture 2: What is a Networking Repeater?

Lecture 3: HOL-How a Repeater actually works?

Lecture 4: What is a Networking Hub?

Lecture 5: HOL-How a Hub works?

Lecture 6: What is a Networking Bridge?

Lecture 7: HOL-How a Bridge works?

Lecture 8: What is a Networking Switch?

Lecture 9: What is a Networking Router?

Lecture 10: Layer-3 Switch as a Router

Chapter 6: Network Addresses essentials

Lecture 1: Analogy of Network Addresses

Lecture 2: Logical and Physical Network Address

Lecture 3: What are IP Addresses?

Lecture 4: Checking & changing IP address

Lecture 5: What are MAC Addresses?

Lecture 6: Checking & changing MAC address

Lecture 7: Why the Hexadecimal notation?

Lecture 8: Your help is needed here!

Chapter 7: Additional network addresses

Lecture 1: Public IP addresses

Lecture 2: Private IP addresses

Lecture 3: IP address range

Lecture 4: What is Network Address Translation(NAT)

Lecture 5: How NAT works for Real?

Lecture 6: What is a Loopback address?

Lecture 7: What is Local Host?

Lecture 8: The reality of "There's no place like 127.0.0.1"

Chapter 8: Protocols governing the Network

Lecture 1: What are Protocols?

Lecture 2: Protocols: HTTP, FTP, TFTP and more…

Lecture 3: The OSI Network Model

Lecture 4: How the Upper Layers work?

Lecture 5: How the Lower Layers work?

Lecture 6: OSI explained with an example

Lecture 7: TCP/IP Network Model and the changes

Lecture 8: OSI vs TCP/IP vs Hybrid Model

Lecture 9: Devices working on OSI layers

Lecture 10: Route Switching in networks

Chapter 9: Virtual Networks – VLANs

Lecture 1: What is a VLAN?

Lecture 2: Types of VLANs

Lecture 3: Collision Domains and Broadcast Domains

Lecture 4: Find the Collision & Broadcast Domains

Chapter 10: Subnet and Subnetting

Lecture 1: What is a Subnet

Lecture 2: Revealing the Subnet Masks

Lecture 3: How Subnet finds the Network address?

Lecture 4: How Subnet finds the Host address?

Lecture 5: How a Device finds these addresses?

Chapter 11: Ports and Addressing

Lecture 1: What are Ports?

Lecture 2: Categories of ports

Lecture 3: States of Ports: Open, Closed & Filtered

Lecture 4: HOL – Port scan with Nmap port scanner

Lecture 5: Why do we need Port Security

Lecture 6: MAC Filtering – Port Security measures

Lecture 7: Port Forwarding – Port Security measures

Chapter 12: How IP address are assigned

Lecture 1: How are IPs assigned?

Lecture 2: The idea behind DHCP

Lecture 3: DHCP: Discovery Message

Lecture 4: DHCP: Offer Message

Lecture 5: DHCP: Request Message

Lecture 6: DHCP: Acknowledgement Message

Lecture 7: DHCP Sum up

Chapter 13: Domain Name System & ARP

Lecture 1: What is Domain Name System(DNS)

Lecture 2: Components of the DNS

Lecture 3: Working of Domain Name System(DNS)

Lecture 4: What is Address Resolution Protocol(ARP)