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:
- communicate and contribute as a member of a team;
- problem solve network security infrastructure;
- interpret and follow documented material and procedures;
- use a laptop or a workstation;
- install and demonstrate the application of software packages;
- perform basic mathematical calculations;
- connecting networked devices;
- configuring a firewall;
- implementing IPS;
- plan and apply foundational troubleshooting of network security infrastructure, and;
- drive testing software packages.Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
- testing methodologies;
- using networking devices;
- new firewall technologies;
- CLI to configure a network device;
- handle and use network devices;
- WLAN operation and architectures;
- WLAN vulnerabilities;
- encryption, hashes and digital signatures;
- encryption algorithms;
- public key encryption;
- basic cryptography;
- VPN's, and;
- IPSec.