Introduction to Contemporary Operating Systems and Hardware 1b
In this course, you will study the fundamental concepts involved in interconnecting devices for communications. You will also explore protocols, network hardware, and network services. The career skills acquired in this course will begin your journey into the world of networking.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Compare and contrast Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) ports, protocols, and their purposes.
- Analyze and compare common networking hardware.
- Compare and contrast protocols for wireless networking.
- Summarize services provided by networked hosts.
- Summarize common network configuration concepts.
- Compare and contrast Internet connection types, network types, and their features.
Software requirements: A Linux/Unix terminal or Windows command prompt. Cisco Packet tracer, Wireshark
Status: Servers
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Status: Networking Hardware
Networking Hardware
Beginner·Course·26 hours
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5.0
·Reviewed Mar 4, 2024
Computer networking is the interconnection of computing devices to enable data communication and resource sharing between them.
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 9, 2024
Well spoken, professional, clear objectives and timely quizzes and tests. Also appreciated the Guides and syllabus. College level. Recommended.
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 20, 2024
Great content that you can apply to real world scenarios.
4.0
·Reviewed May 2, 2025
This course is good and very helpful to improve the skill and networking
4.0
·Reviewed Feb 18, 2024
It was a good experience to hv global certification with coursera
4.0
·Reviewed Nov 2, 2024
good, but need more answer or information about the question asked in the quiz or it just even more good if you give understandble way of pdf about topics describtion.
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 29, 2023
Thank you coursera and HEC for giving such great plateform
5.0
·Reviewed Mar 20, 2025
Excellent course but excepting more detailed video on the practical thing and topic lecturing
5.0
·Reviewed Feb 3, 2025
great course but some things on the tests arn't on the wiki pages they want you to study but it gets the job done just might require some other research.
4.0
·Reviewed Feb 21, 2025
i couldn't verify my id, can you help with this please
5.0
·Reviewed May 17, 2024
Great course! Nice overview of computer networking.
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Aunnop
3.0
·Reviewed Nov 11, 2023
The assessment questions aren't (not all) exactly of the content of the course but rather general knowledge, and some have weird answer
not sure if this happen to all courses, but I do not get any responses to question/discussion since the beginning of the course, which is frustrating
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Del
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·Reviewed Feb 20, 2024
Wikipedia is a poor choice for reading assignments. It's hard to follow what the teacher is showing on his laptop.
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Santiago
1.0
·Reviewed Sep 13, 2024
If I wanted to learn through wikipedia I wouldnt have bought the course. Videos are not great either
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bura
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·Reviewed Mar 5, 2024
Computer networking is the interconnection of computing devices to enable data communication and resource sharing between them.
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Mohammed
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·Reviewed Mar 21, 2025
Excellent course but excepting more detailed video on the practical thing and topic lecturing
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zachary
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·Reviewed Feb 4, 2025
great course but some things on the tests arn't on the wiki pages they want you to study but it gets the job done just might require some other research.
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Mark
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 9, 2024
Well spoken, professional, clear objectives and timely quizzes and tests. Also appreciated the Guides and syllabus. College level. Recommended.
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Danyal
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·Reviewed Aug 30, 2023
Thank you coursera and HEC for giving such great plateform
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Edward
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·Reviewed Sep 21, 2024
Great content that you can apply to real world scenarios.
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Darrell
5.0
·Reviewed May 18, 2024
Great course! Nice overview of computer networking.