SIXTEEN WEEK TEACHING PLAN

Course & Course Code Computer Networks Lab COSC-3201

Credit Hours 1
Department Information Technology, Computer Science
Course Type: Lab
Theory/Lab Lab
Program/semester/section BS-COSC-3A, BS-COSC-3B, BS-INFT-3A
Semester Fall- 2022
Course Instructor name/Designation Mr. Muhammad Tariq Ali
Office Hours / Counseling hours for Thursday 03:00 PM-05:00 PM/ or by prior
students reservation

Email ID: [email protected]

Note: For practical/lab work, a separate teaching plan can be prepared.

Week 1
Objectives / Learning Student will get hands on experience to prepare straight through and
Outcome crossover cables, physically connect two networks and check their
connectivity

Contents / Sub Contents Preparing straight through and crossover cables

Appropriate Teaching Practical Implementation

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment In class question answer and Assignment
Tools

Assessment Schedule During lecture

Others

Week 2
Objectives / Learning Students will learn basic interface of packet tracer and implement
Outcome basic configuration

Contents / Sub Contents Introduction to Cisco Packet Tracer

Appropriate Teaching Practical demo of Cisco Packet tracer and its different function
Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual, Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 3rd Week Lecture
Others
Week 3
Objectives / Learning Student will learn different modes for configuring switches in cisco
Outcome packet tracer and will be able to configure switch name, vty
passwords and create a LAN using switch
Contents / Sub Contents
Basic Switch Configuration and VLAN

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools

Assessment Schedule Before 4th Week Lecture

Others
Week 4
Objectives / Learning Student will learn how to configure the router host name,
Outcome passwords, banner messages. They will also verify the router
configuration. Student will learn to assign IP addresses to Router
interfaces and observe packet traversing through
Contents / Sub Contents Basic Router Configuration

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 6th Week Lecture
Others
Week 5
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to build the Network and configure Basic Device Settings,
Outcome will learn to create VLANs and Assign Switch Ports, maintain VLAN Port
Assignments and the VLAN Database. They will also learn to
configure an 802.1Q Trunk between the Switches and how to delete the
VLAN Database Background / Preparation

Contents / Sub Contents Configuration of VLAN Trunking

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 7th Week Lecture
Others
Week 6
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to configure Static Routes, default route in RIP1
Outcome
Contents / Sub Contents RIPV1 BASIC CONFIGURATION

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 8th Week Lecture
Others
Week 7
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to configure RIPV2
Outcome
Contents / Sub Contents
RIPV2 BASIC CONFIGURATION

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 9th Week Lecture
Others
Week 8
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to cable a network according to the Topology Diagram,
Outcome erase the startup configuration and reload a router to the default state.
Student will perform basic configuration tasks on a router and configure and
activate interfaces.
Configure EIGRP routing on all routers.
 Verify EIGRP routing using show commands

Contents / Sub Contents Basic EIGRP Configuration Lab (Part -a)

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 10th Week Lecture
Others
Week 9
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to Disable automatic summarization, configure manual
Outcome summarization.
Document the EIGRP configuration
Contents / Sub Contents Basic EIGRP Configuration Lab (Part -b)

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 11th Week Lecture
Others
Week 10
Objectives / Learning Perform basic switch configurations
Outcome • Configure the Ethernet interfaces on the host PCs
• Configure VTP on the switches
• Configure the router and the remote server LAN
Introduction
Contents / Sub Contents Basic Inter-VLAN Routing
Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo
Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 12th Week Lecture
Others
Week 11
Objectives / Learning Students will learn Configure and activate interfaces Configure OSPF
Outcome routing on all routers Configure OSPF
router IDs
Verify OSPF routing using show commands
Configure a static default route
Propagate default route to OSPF neighbors Configure OSPF Hello
and Dead Timers
Configure OSPF on a Multi-access network Configure OSPF priority
Understand the OSPF election process
Contents / Sub Contents Configure OSPF
Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo
Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 13th Week Lecture
Others
Week 12
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to configure a router for Dynamic Host
Outcome Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) to dynamically assign addresses to attached hosts.
Contents / Sub Contents Configuring DHCP
Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo
Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Week 14, first lecture
Others
Week 13
Objectives / Learning Student will learn to configure and verify Static NAT
Outcome and to configure and verify Dynamic NAT
Contents / Sub Contents Configuring Dynamic and Static NAT

Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo

Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools
Assessment Schedule Before 15th Week Lecture
Others
Week 14
Objectives / Learning Students will learn to
Outcome • Configure and verify ACLs to control traffic.
• Verify ACLs using the logging capabilities of the router.
Contents / Sub Contents Configure and verify ACLs
Appropriate Teaching Practical Demo
Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet
Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks
Tools

Assessment Schedule Before 15th Week Lecture

Others
 Week 15
Objectives / Learning • Student will learn to capture packet.
Outcome • Student will learn to observe and examine captured packets.
Contents / Sub Contents Using Wireshark
Learning Material Lab Manual and Internet

Appropriate Assessment Lab Tasks

Tools
Assessment Schedule Before Final Exam

Others
Week 16
Objectives / Learning Evaluating student knowledge and skills in computer networks
Outcome
Contents / Sub Contents Final Exam
Appropriate Teaching Written Exam
Strategies / Methods
Learning Material Slides, Notes, Data and Computer Communication by William
Stallings, Computer Networks by Andrew Tanenbaum
Appropriate Assessment Written Exam, objective and subjective questions
Tools
Assessment Schedule TBD
Others

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