Understand and apply network fundamentals.
• Describe networking standards, concepts, topology and media including LANs, WANs, the OSI model, cabling, IP addressing, sub-netting, network hardware and various protocols.
• Explain networking theory and protocols on common network systems.
• Apply IP routing concepts and router administration, distance vector and link state-based IP routing algorithms, router interfaces, routing tables, and routing protocol configuration and network security concepts.