VU21988 - Utilise basic network concepts and protocols required in cyber security

Unit code: VU21988 | Study level: TAFE

Credit points

N/A

Location

Footscray Nicholson

St Albans

Sunshine

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit provides a cyber security practitioner with an introduction to the skills and knowledge required to comprehend how data travels around the internet and the function and operation of protocols such as the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite and devices that facilitate this data transfer. The exposure to these protocols is at an introductory level in this unit.

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:

articulating issues arising from the operation of a network;
applying numeracy skills to perform calculations in binary and hexadecimal number systems;
base level problem solving to implement provided scripts for a switch and a router;
reading and accurately interpreting documents and reports;
operating a personal computer;
basic level ability in network cabling, and;
communicating with others to address cyber security network concepts and protocols.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

OSI layered communication model;
TCP/IP layered communication model;
Media Access Layer (MAC) addresses;
binary number system;
hexadecimal number system;
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol;
User Datagram Protocol (UDP);
IPV4 addressing;
basics of IPV6 addressing;
routers, switches, firewall fundamentals & wireless access points;
end to end test commands eg Ping, Traceroute;
fundamentals of cyber security tools Wireshark, Kali, Netstumbler & Netstat;
fundamental DOS & DDOS attack mechanisms;
fundamental ransomware attack mechanisms;
wireless LANs and their use and vulnerabilities;
virtual images and their construction, and;
fundamentals of a scripting language eg Python.

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.