Reference material
You will be given a copy of a Python quick reference sheet. Information about relevant methods of useful classes will be embedded in the exam.
Exam 1
Be sure you know every thing covered in the first exam.
More stuff to review from the textbook
If you know the meaning of all the italicized words in the sections we covered, you’ll be super prepared.
However, the only chapter we covered since the last exam is Chapter 2; but we have have had some homework related to Chapter 3.
Chapter 3
- properties of IP
- IP network management
- Historic class-based addressing (A, B, and C)
- Classless Addressing (CIDR)
- Address translation (ARP)
- Packet forwarding and routing
- Autonomous systems
- Fragmentation and reassembly
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Relation to UDP and TCP
- IP network management
- Bridging
- Virtual circuits
- Learning bridges
- Spanning trees
- Algorhyme
- Virtual LAN’s
Chapter 2
- Data encodings
- CRC — Cyclic Redundancy Check
- Ethernet
- WiFi
- WiFi authentication
- Feral chickens in Hawaii
Great Firewall
Spent some time thinking about how your knowledge of networking allow you to explain the Great Firewall and Great Cannon of China to the “typical” first-year computer major.