Comp. Sci. Networking Course

Networking Course Overview

Table of Contents

• Content
• Standards
• Aspects
  • 👶 Introduction
  • 💪 Workout
  • 🦑 Deep
  • ✨ New
  • 🔮 Obscura

Content

Below you can find the ordered content of the topic, in a linear progression

The linear progression of content aims to cover all content, course by course, workout by workout as follows:

• first course is the only core one, denoted by its manifest
• the next course is denoted by the first item of the next array in each course manifest
• each course has its order of workouts designated by the sections field in the same aforementioned manifest

1. fundamentals-i

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	what-is-a-computer-network	✅	👶 introduction	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
2	what-is-a-packet	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	what-is-protocol	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	types-of-networks	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	network-models	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌
6	network-models-tcp-ip	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	✅	❌	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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2. fundamentals-ii

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	what-is-an-ip-address	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	what-is-a-port	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	what-are-tcp-and-udp	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	application-layer	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	extended-terminologies	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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3. metrics

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	important-networking-metrics	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	what-are-latency-and-ping	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	what-is-packet-loss	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
4	what-is-jitter	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
5	differences-between-bandwidth-and-throughput	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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4. tools

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	tools-to-interact-with-networks	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
2	network-statistics-tools	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	dns-lookup	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌
4	network-interfaces-tools	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	test-connectivity	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	❌	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

name	type	aspects	standards	done
networking-quiz	fillTheGap	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	❌

5. intro-to-http

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	what-is-http	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	what-is-an-url	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	what-are-status-codes	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	verbs-in-http	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	https	✅	🦑 deep 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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6. requests-responses

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	http-request	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	a-request-example	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	http-response	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	a-response-example	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	http-pipelining	✅	🦑 deep	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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7. http-status-codes

Insights:

no	name	content	aspects	standards	PQ	RQ	Quiz	done
1	informational-status-codes	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
2	successful-status-codes	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
3	redirection-status-codes	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
4	client-error-status-codes	✅	👶 introduction	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌
5	server-error-status-codes	✅	👶 introduction 💪 workout	❌	✅	✅	❌	❌

Exercises:

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Game:

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Standards

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❌ - Nothing covers this

🛠️ - This standard has no objectives yet

❌ Analyze and Interpret network metrics

0. ❌ Use a tool like netstat to monitor a LAN's traffic
1. ❌ Use a tool to monitor a VPC's traffic
2. ❌ Monitor and graph the HTTP traffic coming into a web server
3. ❌ Use an agent to monitor incoming and outgoing traffic on network nodes, eg collectd
4. ❌ Interpret metrics from a network analyzer, eg Wireshark
5. ❌ Collect and analyze incoming and outgoing traffic for anomalies

❌ Identify a network’s components and describe their role

0. ❌ Identify the abstract network components according to the OSI model
1. ❌ Identify and describe concrete components of a network given a real network diagram according to the OSI model
2. ❌ Describe the role of each component in the OSI model
3. ❌ Describe the role of each component in a real network diagram
4. ❌ Analyze network addresses

❌ Use the HTTP Protocol to assemble an HTTP request and response

0. ❌ Identify the components of an HTTP Request
1. ❌ Identify the components of an HTTP Response
2. ❌ Attach headers to an HTTP Request
3. ❌ Attach a body to an HTTP Request using POST, PUT, and PATCH methods
4. ❌ Make an assembled HTTP Request to a given URI
5. ❌ Receive an incoming HTTP request and use it to serve an HTTP Response
6. ❌ Attach headers to an HTTP Response
7. ❌ Attach a body to an HTTP Response
8. ❌ Use common HTTP Status Codes to communicate about the status of the response
9. ❌ Identify common request and header pairs, such as Accept and Content-Type, and their respective contracts
10. ❌ Identify common request headers and use them to modify the response before it is sent
11. ❌ Identify common response headers and use them to make decisions about the response after it is received
12. ❌ Use HTTP Cookies to persist data across requests between a server and a client

❌ Identify and Analyze network protocols

0. ❌ Distinguish between network protocols
1. ❌ Distinguish network protocols by layer of the OSI Model
2. ❌ Distinguish between open network protocols and their secure counterparts
3. ❌ Analyze the contents of a TCP Packet
4. ❌ Distinguish TCP and UDP handshake protocols
5. ❌ Identify an HTTP Request
6. ❌ Analyze the contents of an HTTP Request
7. ❌ Identify an HTTP Response
8. ❌ Analyze the contents of an HTTP Response
9. ❌ Identify a URI
10. ❌ Analyze the contents of a URI
11. ❌ Identify an SMTP command
12. ❌ Analyze the contents of an SMTP command
13. ❌ Distinguish the WebSocket protocol from the HTTP Protocol and describe the differences

❌ Identify and Analyze secure network protocols

0. ❌ Distinguish between open network protocols and their secure counterparts
1. ❌ Distinguish secure traffic from insecure traffic using a packet sniffing tool, eg wireshark
2. ❌ Distinguish TCP and UDP handshake protocols from TLS handshake protocols

❌ Accurately configure and distinguish DNS records

0. ✅ Describe the purpose of DNS.
1. ✅ Identify and distinguish between the components of the DNS hierarchy and their responsibilities
2. ✅ Distinguish between DNS record types
3. ❌ Use tools to analyze DNS queries
4. ❌ Accurately configure DNS records
5. ❌ Make DNS queries using dig.
6. ✅ Identify the sections of a DNS query and resource record.

Aspects

Given the insights are tagged with aspects, we can filter over the linear content progression and create learning sub-paths.

These sub-path progressions will most likely not cover all content, but they will ensure and enforce an unified learning experience, tailor for the user wish.

For example, a user might be interested in new additions and updates of a language, rather than introduction lessions. Note that these sub-paths don't take games into consideration

👶 Introduction

If you are being introduced to the topic for the first time

Insights:

1. what-is-a-computer-network
2. what-is-a-packet
3. what-is-protocol
4. types-of-networks
5. what-is-an-ip-address
6. what-is-a-port
7. application-layer
8. extended-terminologies
9. important-networking-metrics
10. what-are-latency-and-ping
11. what-is-packet-loss
12. what-is-jitter
13. differences-between-bandwidth-and-throughput
14. tools-to-interact-with-networks
15. what-is-http
16. what-is-an-url
17. what-are-status-codes
18. verbs-in-http
19. http-request
20. http-response
21. informational-status-codes
22. successful-status-codes
23. redirection-status-codes
24. client-error-status-codes
25. server-error-status-codes

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in networking. :warning: There are no games tagged with this aspect in networking.

💪 Workout

Theory put into practice/that’s how you achieve X points

Insights:

1. types-of-networks
2. network-models
3. network-models-tcp-ip
4. what-are-tcp-and-udp
5. application-layer
6. extended-terminologies
7. what-are-latency-and-ping
8. what-is-packet-loss
9. what-is-jitter
10. differences-between-bandwidth-and-throughput
11. tools-to-interact-with-networks
12. network-statistics-tools
13. dns-lookup
14. network-interfaces-tools
15. test-connectivity
16. what-is-http
17. what-are-status-codes
18. verbs-in-http
19. https
20. successful-status-codes
21. server-error-status-codes

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in networking. Games:

1. networking-quiz

🦑 Deep

Prerequisite knowledge consisting of 2 or more 👶/💪 workouts

Insights:

1. network-models
2. network-models-tcp-ip
3. what-are-tcp-and-udp
4. network-statistics-tools
5. dns-lookup
6. network-interfaces-tools
7. test-connectivity
8. https
9. a-request-example
10. a-response-example
11. http-pipelining

⚠️ There are no exercises tagged with this aspect in networking. Games:

1. networking-quiz

✨ New

Recently added/gained traction feature

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🔮 Obscura

Stories, obscure details that don’t specifically relate to a learning objective

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✅ All content has been tagged with aspects.