UEENEED117A - Install and configure network systems for internetworking
Overview
This competency standard unit covers the interconnection of networks. It encompasses safe working practice, basic installation and configuration of routers and documenting installation and configuration activities.
Assessment
For Melbourne campuses
Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.
Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills and knowledge:
- calculate subnet addresses and masks;
- layer 3 and 4 protocols;
- static and dynamic routing;
- basic router configuration;
- router security;
- router boot sequence;
- router operating system management;
- password recovery;
- router components and interfaces;
- troubleshooting at all layers;
- interior and exterior routing protocols;
- distance vector routing protocols;
- link state routing protocols;
- routing tables;
- metrics used by routing protocols to find routes;
- advantages and disadvantages of distance vector and link state routing protocols, and;
- route summarisation.
Required reading
The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.
As part of a course
This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.