Upper Layer Network Operations (NSNWULNO)

This course is intended for anyone who plans, designs, implements, installs, maintains, and supports EMC hardware and software solutions utilizing TCP/IP networks.

To understand the content and successfully complete this course, participants must have a suitable knowledgebase/skill set. The prerequisites for this course include an understanding of proper lower layer network operations to deliver the upper layer data.

This course focuses on upper layer network operations. Participants will gain experience with key client/server based network services by installing, configuring, and observing the services within Unix and Windows environments. The services observed include name services, configuration services, and security and authentication services; file access services, as well as monitoring and messaging services. Students will also learn how to build key components, including an NFS (Network File System) environment and a CIFS (Common Internet File System) environment. The concentration is on industry standard protocols.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Build, configure, and observe key client/server based network services in a distributed computing environment
• Explain how various network services interact together to form an operational network environment
• Identify network components, applications, and protocols for accessing data over the network
• Build a simple CIFS environment and observe its operations
• Evaluate network services and data access operations
• Construct a simple NFS environment and observe its operations

Modules

These modules are designed to support the course objectives. The following modules are included in this course:

• Module 1 – Information and Support Services
• Module 2 – File Access and Transfer Protocols
• Module 3 – Monitoring and Messaging Protocol

Labs

Labs reinforce the information you have been taught. This course will contain twelve labs. The lab objectives are as follows:

• Install the WINS service and observe the service operations
• Configure an NIS master server and an NIS client and observer NIS operations
• Install and configure the DNS service and observe its operation
• Install and configure the DHCP service and observe its operation
• Install and configure the NTP service and observe its operation
• Configure the IPsec service and observe its operations
• Configure an NFS server and observe NFS client operations with the server
• Configure a CIFS server and observe CIFS client operations with the server
• Configure an FTP server and observe FTP client operations with the server
• Install and configure an HTTP server and observe HTTP operations
• Configure SNMP and observe its operations
• Configure SMTP and observe its operations

Assessments

Assessments validate that you have learned the knowledge or skills presented during a learning experience. This course includes a performance-based lab assessment.