Two down, two to go

Took the BCMSN Tuesday and passed. This exam pretty much dealt with my everyday work and I wont be afraid to admit this exam was still hard (plus im getting a little tired of reading about Cisco technology). Taking off till Monday then im going to start the ISCW which looks like its gonna be difficult but interesting! (Planning to take the next exam December 17th so I can enjoy the 1.5 week we get off for Christmas Break )

This weekend ill be working on a power point presentation to teach a two night course (total of 6 hours) going over the basics of home networking. This is more of a intro to network/home routers type of course.

Monday night ill be going over:

• Differences between hub, switch, routers (ARP/MAC addresses)
• DHCP
• DNS
• NAT
• Difference between different internet technologies (Cable, DSL, FIOS, Satellite)
• A little into subnetting
• File/Printer sharing
• Software firewalls

Wednesday night:

• Wireless security/Myths
• Wireless standards
• Antennas
• Windows Wireless manager (XP/Vista)
• VOIP
• Port forwarding
• Troubleshooting

More will be added to the list as I start the slides

This will be my first class i have ever taught when it comes to technology. I'm not nervous at all, i can talk for hours when it comes to networking and having students is nothing new to me.