WEEK

CHAPTER

BENCHMARKS

1

1

Can all students describe in detail the OSI layers?  Can all students differentiate between various LAN technologies, especially the varieties of Ethernet?  Can all students work through a class B IP address planning example, on their own, without notes or a calculator? 

2

2

Can all students give a simple description of a router (including its role as a WAN device)  and a simple explanation of the process of routing?  Can all students build the semester 2 topology given routers, switches, cables, hubs, and transceivers?

3

3

Can all student log into the router, enter and explain 6 different router modes, use editing features and context-sensitive help, individually and without their journal?

4

4

Can all students use the router show commands, router testing commands, and router debug commands when prompted for specific information? 

5

4

Can all students, individually but using the Engineering Journal, perform lab 4.5.1?

6

5

Can all students flowchart the router boot sequence?  Can all students configure a router using the setup command and dialog?

7

6

Can all students flowchart the the process for altering and saving the router configuration file?  Can all students perform a CLI configuration of a router (including interfaces and routing protocols)? 

8

6, 7

Can all students perform the password recovery procedure from memory?
Can all students flowchart the ways a router can obtain an IOS image? 

9

7

Can all students use the configuration register calculator?  Can all students use the IOS commands relevant to loading and monitoring IOS images?

10

8

Can all students flowchart the complete CLI configuration of a router, including specific IOS commands?  Do all students have a thorough Engineering Journal?

11

8

Can all students, individually and without notes except for an IP-labeled topology, perform a complete CLI configuration of a router (with a completely erased configuration file) in 10 minutes or less?

12

9, 10

Can all students create a variety of diagrams to explain TCP in detail?  Can all students do a complete Class B IP address Planning problem?  Have all students added the IOS commands from Chapters 9 and 10  to their Engineering Journal and tried those commands on a router?

13

11

Can all students pass a vocabulary and concept quiz on Chapter 11?

14

12

Can all students configure and verify static and default routes on a router?

15

12

Can all students configure and verify the dynamic routing protocols RIP and IGRP on a router?

16

13

Can all students, working in teams, build and troubleshoot the complete 5-router topology?

17

13

Have all students become proficient and efficient and building and troubleshooting the complete 5-router topology?

Are all students ready to take their Online, Oral, and Skills-Based Final Exams? 

18

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Administration of Online, Oral, and Skill-Based Exams