Learning Outcome (LO) Summary: Explain how software applications and physical hardware interact to operate network services, including the roles of interfaces, bridges, routing, and packet traversal using models like TCP/IP, and identify components and interfaces within networking standards and hardware architectures.
Component Learning Outcomes
| ID | Component Learning Outcomes | Cross-Cutting Concepts |
| NS1 | Describe how network services operate through software applications running on physical hardware, enabling communication and data exchange over the network. | Systems thinking |
| NS2 | Explain the relationship between a given physical interface and its corresponding software component(s). | Systems thinking |
| NS3 | Explain the role of a gateway between two networks. | Systems thinking |
| NS4 | Interpret how a network packet traverses the Internet using the TCP/IP 5- layer network model. | Systems thinking |
| NS5 | Describe routing including path selection and its importance in networking. | Systems thinking |
| NS6 | Describe common hardware architectures and components that perform network services within a layer model, highlighting their specific functions and interactions. | Systems thinking |
| NS7 | List several network standards that define models consisting of systems of components and interfaces. | Systems thinking |
| NS8 | Given a networking standard, identify the components and interfaces of that standard. | Systems thinking |
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