FINAL EXAM REVIEW
1. OSI, TCP/IP Layers (Ch1)
2. Physical Layer: (Ch2)
 a) Basic terminology
 b) Analog, Digital transmission
 c) WAN: Multiplexing 
Circuit, Message, Packet switching
 X25, Frame Relay, ATM
 
3. Datalink Layer: (Ch3)
 a) Types of services: 
Connection Oriented
 Connection - less
 b) Frame:
 Framing (bit, byte stuffing, Mench. encoding)
 Error control (CRC etc.)
 Flow control - Go/Stop, sliding window protocols
 NIC card, NIC card address
 
4. Medium Access Sublayer (Datalink technologies): (Ch4, Web)
 Ethernet, IEEE 802 specs
 Collision Domains, Bridges 
Switched Ethernet
 Broadcast Domains, VLANs
 
5. Network Layer: (Ch5, Web)
 a) Routing, Routing algorithms:
 Static - Shortest path
 Adaptive - Distance vector, Link State
 Hierarchical routing, Autonomous Systems
 Interior Gateway Protocols - RIP, OSPF
 Exterior Gateway Protocols - BGP 
b) IP Addressing:
 IP Address, Classes of address, Netmask
 Routers, Routing tables 
 netstat, ifconfig commands
 Classless Addressing - CIDR
 Network Address Translation - NAT
 IP Version 6
 c) NIC card address - IP address translation:
 ARP, RARP, BOOTP, DHCP
 d) Mobile IP
 
6. Transport Layer: (Ch6)
 a) TCP, UDP protocols,headers, Port numbers
 b) TCP connection; Sockets
 c) TCP congestion control
 d) TCP Sequence Number plots
 
7. Application layer: (Ch7)
 Domain Name Service(DNS):Domain Name Space, Zones
 DNS Servers, Server database
 nslookup command
 DDNS
 
8. Network Security: (Ch8, Web)
 a) Encryption: Symmetrical, Public/Private key, Digital signatures 
b) Client, Server authentication - Certificates 
c) Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
 d) Virtual Private Networks (VNPs)
 e) Firewalls
 
Suggestions for studying for the final exam:
 1. Review the midterm exam and the sample final exam
 2. Answer the TCP/IP questions from my Web site
 3. Answer the in-class questions from my web site
 4. Go through the Course Notes, read the suggested pages
 5. Look at the suggested Web sites