Month 4: Networks and Server Structures

This month has been incredibly information intensive all throughout. When the teacher says, "Study the information you just learned every night," he really does mean it. I live with my boyfriend, and he has two Cisco degrees for networking, so I had an advantage there. The class dabbled into the OSI model, cryptography, binary conversion, subnetting and a whole lot more. The first test is the hardest. I haven't been able to keep my blog updated for...

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Month 4: Networks and Server Structures

Lab 4: Subnetworks Today was a bit rough. We learned how to Subnet. I'm not going to get into that, but it is probably the hardest thing we've had to learn this month, though with practice it gets easier. Basically for lab, we were given a Network Address and Class, and told we needed X amount of Subnetworks and X amount of Hosts per network. For that, we needed to find the Subnet ID's (up to a certain number), the Broadcast Address for those IDs and then the Range. So a lot of math was involved and you can't use your calculator. All in all it...

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Grades: Art History

Got our grades back from Art History earlier than usual. I really worked hard throughout the month, so I'm pleased with my 98 A+. Hopefully posting my work and showing the grades helps you to get an understanding of what it takes to pass these classes and were you should be as far as skill level when you come into the program...

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Month 4: Networks and Server Structures

Lab 3: Searching Google Lab three was fairly simple. We were taught how to use Google 'correctly.' Basically, we searched in formats like this: Charles would like to buy a Cannon EOS 20D for under $500.00. He spends some time searching: [canon] [canon eos] [canon eos $300..$500] [canon eos $300..$500 site:ebay.com] [canon eos $300..$500 site:ebay.com -450d -"eos 7"] [canon eos 20d $300..$500 site:ebay.com OR site:amazon.com -450d -"eos 7"] There were several questions like that on a sheet that we had to fill out. It was fairly simple. Lab...

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