Skills Train IT Home Study - Network Security & Project Management Course

The SkillsTrain S+ and P+ Course

Syllabus

The SkillsTrain S+ & P+ can be studied at home, in a student’s own time and at their own pace, with tutor back up from SkillsTrain’s experienced Tutor team. As with all of SkillsTrain’s IT courses, the S+ & P+ course is structured in a modular way to enable you to work through and gain an understanding of each stage, before moving on.

The first stages of the course cover Networking and Network Security, culminating in thorough grounding in Project Management skills, from instigation and planning, through to execution, closure and project maintenance.

The course, part A

• Basic networking concepts
• The OSI model
• Network adapters
• Introducing protocols
• Network cabling and devices
• Internetworking components
• Remote and WAN connectivity
• Troubleshooting hardware components
• TCP/IP fundamentals
• TCP/IP addressing and sub-netting

Part B

• Name resolution
• Firewalls and proxies
• Troubleshooting network connectivity
• Identifying network operating system features
• Network clients
• Directory services
• Accessing and managing resources in a Windows network
• Monitoring and troubleshooting a Windows server
• Managing and troubleshooting NetWare network resources
• Fault tolerance and disaster recovery
• Routine maintenance
• Troubleshooting
• Installing NetWare 6.5
• Installing Windows Server 2003

Network Security

Part A

• Authentication Methods
• Access Control
• Cryptography Essentials
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Network Attacks and Vulnerabilities

Part B

• Operating System and Application Hardening
• Securing Remote Access
• Wireless Network Security
• Security Topologies and Infrastructure Security
• Risk Analysis, Intrusion Detection and Business Continuity
• Security Policy Management

Project Management

• Project management overview
• Project initiation
• Project planning
• Managing people and resources
• Managing cost and risk

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