Information Technology Fundamentals for Everyone

This course covers current and evolving data network technologies, protocols, network components, and the networks that use them, focusing on communication to and from the Internet and Local area networks. Course content includes Internet architecture, organization, and protocols including Ethernet, 802.11, routing, switching, OSI and TCP models, DNS, SNMP, DHCP, and more. Students will be presented with Internet-specific networking tools for searching, testing, debugging, and configuring networks and network-connected host computers. At the graduate level, students will be given real-world examples, with best practice and business use cases as related to the content on hand, as well as threats and mitigation steps. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to: - Introduce communication fundamentals as they relate to popular communication models such as the TCP and OSI models. - Provide an understanding of the distributed nature of the internet. - Discuss the requirements for communication between local area networks and internet. - Identify and define protocols needed for LAN and WAN communication. - Learn the basics of analyzing, inspecting, and monitoring network traffic. - Become aware of threats to networks and networked devices. - Utilize tools for doing basic network reconnaissance.

This course will cover the basic concepts of Cloud Computing and Cloud Native thinking. We will study the five components of Cloud. Topics will focus on application and infrastructure scalability, reliability, and security. Commercial and local cloud architectures are examined. An integration of course topics will result in a project employing various cloud computing technologies. Background: Assumes you have had basic Networking TCP/IP and an introduction to Linux using the command line and writing shell scripts By the end of this course, students will be able to: - Explain the five core components of cloud computing - Use and administer industry standard cloud resources - Correctly identify cloud native operations and development methodologies - Build and deploy elastic scaling applications on a cloud platform - Describe and employ web technologies for software deployment - Working with command line Cloud Tools - Describe How to Think Cloud Native Software Requirements: An AWS account – we will make use of the free-tier. A GitHub account and creation of a private repo VirtualBox A laptop that you own or have control to install needed software for the course