Exam 1 will cover Chapters 1, 2, and 3

Topics:

• Acronyms to know
• The TCP/IP Reference Model (what does each layer do?)
• What is the Internet? How does it differ from the Web?
• What is a protocol?
• Access Networks: DSL, Cable, FTTH, Dial-up and Satellite
• Physical media: twisted-pair, coaxial cable, fiber optics, wireless radio, satellite
• Time Division Multiplexing
• Frequency Division Multiplexing
• Circuit Switching vs Packet Switching
• Types of Delays in Packet Switched Networks: nodal processing delay, queuing delay, transmission delay and propagation delay
• Calculating the delay for a packet to propagate and transmit over a link of a particular distance
• Describe a client-sever architecture
• Transport services provided by the Internet: TCP versus UDP
• What are well known ports?
• What is a socket?
• Describe how to setup a connection between two processes running on different hosts across the Internet
• The Doman Name System (DNS)
• Electronic Mail (IMAP and POP3)
• The World Wide Web (HTML, URL, HTTP)
  • Persistent and non-persistent connections
  • Cookies
  • Web caching
• What services are provided by the transport layer?
• What is mean't by multiplexing and demultiplexing as it relates to a TCP connection?
• UDP Segment Structure
• Stop-and-Wait Protocol
• GO-BACK-N Protocol
• SELECTIVE REPEAT Protocol

Exam 2 will cover Chapters 4, 5, and 6

Topics:

• Acronyms to know
• TCP Segment Structure
• Round-trip Time Estimation and Timeout Interval
• TCP Congestion Control
• TCP Flow Control
• TCP Connection Management (three-way handshake)
• What's inside a router?
• Switch Fabrics
• IPv4 Datagram Format
• IP Addressing and Subnets
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• Network Address Translation
• IP Forwarding
• IP Routing: Link State and Distance Vector
• Internet Control Message Protocol
• Network Management and SNMP
• The Data Link Layer (what services does it provide)
• Errors and Error-Correcting Codes (parity checks, cyclic redundancy check)