CS 458/558 - FINAL STUDY GUIDE

FORMAT

• Exam - available Friday; due Tuesday, April 30th, 2002 (1:50 p.m. MDT)
• Discussion Questions (10-15 questions - total of 200 points)

CONTENT

1. Data Communications and Network Management Overview
   1. TCP/IP-Based Networks
   2. Communications Protocols and Standards
   3. Network Management: Goals,Organization, and Functions
   4. Network and System Managment
   5. NMS Platform
   6. traceroute (tracert), ping, nslookup, whois
   7. troubleshooting
2. Review of Computer Network Technology
   1. Overview of TCP/IP Components (Telnet, FTP, SMTP, POP-3, HTTP, DNS, NFS, TFTP, RPC)
   2. Network Technology
   3. LAN
   4. Network Node Components (repeaters, hubs, bridges, switches, routers)
   5. Internet Addresses, subnet, supernet, CIDR, broadcast
   6. MAC addresses
   7. ARP
   8. DNS
   9. WAN
   10. Transmission Technology
   11. Conceptual Matrix Table
3. Basic Foundations: Standards, Models, and Language
   1. Network Managment Standards
   2. Network Management Model
   3. Organization Model (MDB)
   4. Information Model (SMI, MIB, MIT)
   5. Communications Model
   6. ASN.1
   7. Encoding Structure (basic encoding rules(BER) = TLV)
4. SNMPv1 Network Management: Organization and Information Models
   1. SNMP Model
   2. Organization Model
   3. System Overview (types of messages)
   4. Information Model
      • Structure of Management Information
      • Managed Objects
      • MIB
5. SNMPv1 Network Management: Communication and Functional Models
   1. SNMP Architecture
   2. SNMP Protocol Specifications
   3. SNMP Operations
   4. SNMP MIB Group
6. SNMP Managment: RMON
   1. What is Remote Monitoring?
   2. RMON SMI and MIB
   3. RMON1
   4. RMON2
   5. Case Study of Internet Traffic Using RMON
7. Network Management Tools and Systems
   1. Network Management Tools
   2. Network Statistics Measurement Systems
   3. History of Enterprise Management
   4. Network Management Systems
   5. System Management
   6. Enterprise Management Solutions
8. Network Managment Applications
   1. Configuration Management
   2. Fault Management
   3. Performance Management
   4. Event Correlation Techniques
   5. Security Management
   6. Accounting Management
   7. Report Management
   8. Policy-Based Management
   9. Service Level Management
9. Web-Based Management
   1. NMS with Web Interface and Web-Based Management
   2. Web Interface to SNMP Management
   3. Embedded Web-Based Management
   4. Desktop Management Interface
   5. Web-Based Enterprise Management
   6. WBEM: Window Management Instrumentation
10. TCP/IP and Networks
11. IP addresses, domain name addresses, MAC addresses
12. Cuckoo's Egg (problems and solutions)