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About the Course

This course is designed to provide a full overview of computer networking. We’ll cover everything from the fundamentals of modern networking technologies and protocols to an overview of the cloud to practical applications and network troubleshooting. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: ● describe computer networks in terms of a five-layer model ● understand all of the standard protocols involved with TCP/IP communications ● grasp powerful network troubleshooting tools and techniques ● learn network services like DNS and DHCP that help make computer networks run ● understand cloud computing, everything as a service, and cloud storage...

Top reviews

SK

Feb 18, 2021

This was really time-consuming but it was really worth learning. Although in the end, it seems to be very basic things, they would be essential through whatever you want to accomplish in the IT field.

DL

Feb 23, 2021

This course was amazing and helped me understand so much more about networking, things I never thought I would know or understand. Very fulfilling and I can't wait to use this knowledge going forward.

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By Carlos M

Oct 12, 2023

Very technical course. Take it with patience and dont try to rush trough the material...very well explained!

By Alexander S

Oct 14, 2023

This Course is so informative and very well instructed. Thumbs up %100 !

By Mr M

Oct 13, 2023

Great information and teaching to help Spark my IT career

By Zahra R

Oct 16, 2023

That was an informative course,I've learnt a lot.Thanks

By James F

Nov 2, 2019

This course worked my brain, which is good!

By Pavan K G

Oct 21, 2018

Really superb course for networking basics!

By Brantley W B

Jun 21, 2023

It was challenging but I really enjoyed it

By Rexy N

Oct 14, 2023

nice explanation about ip4 and ip6

By Steven P

Oct 17, 2023

Challenging! But learned a lot!

By Kaushik R

Oct 16, 2023

lots of info cramped

By Carlos P

Oct 11, 2023

very well explained

By jahangir k

Oct 11, 2023

really informative

By JM M

Oct 16, 2023

Difficult. whew!

By Kamal Z

Oct 15, 2023

Really gratefull

By KEVIN G

Oct 17, 2023

exceptional

By Wendy M L

Oct 17, 2023

AWESOME!

By Junaid A

Oct 12, 2023

awesome

By Eman G A

Oct 17, 2023

great

By THELMO F J

Oct 11, 2023

Great

By A A K

Oct 14, 2023

best

By Ovia Y N S

Oct 14, 2023

good

By Gayatri D

Oct 14, 2023

good

By James K

Feb 13, 2023

Three big points with regard to the Networking course.

1. Victor Escobedo, the instructor, is great. He's a huge step-up from the first course (Tech Support Fundamentals) and its carousel of people constantly shuffling in-and-out, and he's ahead of the instructors you're given in the later courses, too. He might present as being a little corny and -- at times -- he's a little robotic reading off of the teleprompter but he's got a great way of speaking to help you follow his line of thoughts. Others don't seem like they actually... care about your success? I know it's weird to think that a dude reading off a teleprompter could care, but it's kind of a "you have to experience it to get what I mean".

2. This course and the curriculum are an absolutely silly jump in how difficult the material can be to parse and make sense of. If you breezed through Course 1, this one might stop you dead in your tracks when it tries to teach you something like Subnetting (which was the biggest pain point for me, personally). There are also points where the curriculum doesn't really efficiently explain a point, which is kind of a good thing, because it encourages you to seek out other resources. A lot of what I began learning in this course, I'd finish learning on YouTube or in some documentation on Wikipedia.

3. For some reason, this course is going to tell you the TCP/IP 5-layer model is the standard. It's going to speak in terms of the TCP/IP 5-layer model a lot. You need to learn the OSI model instead. No one uses TCP/IP, and the Supplemental Reading they offer actually tells you that it's being phased out in favor of the OSI.

For me, I had to use a lot of outside resources to help me understand this and a lot of the time, there aren't practical examples you can follow to better grasp what it is a lot of these things are. As in, you'll learn *how* to determine how many subnets any given IPv4 address may have, but you'll never actually open a program on your computer and work with subnets hands-on. Whereas in course 3 (Operating Systems and you) you're constantly encouraged to follow along with the instructor's work.

All in all, I think this is an essential course for everyone. It's important to understand how all this network stuff works in an increasingly digital age where we're sending info through the air. Heavily recommend.

By Troy R

Jun 2, 2022

The course itself is excellent. I'm impressed by how much information can be easily explained in a compact format. It truly is a 5 star course.

That said, the tech support being offered is Amazon level incompetence, and Coursera should be embarrassed. The IPv6 compression exam at the end of this course has a serious technical bug. I reached out to Coursera's technical support team, two members of which -- Evelyn and Jet, specifically -- ignored what I wrote, declared the problem to be my fault, and gave me instructons on how to complete the exam because they clearly thought I was a moron. The problem was an imposed character limitation of 20 characters in the answer space due to copy/paste inexplicably adding extra invisible characters in the answer space. The other workaround to ensure a correct answer requires entering something screwball that should not have worked whenever a correct answer was checked as wrong. I did my research to get past that and solved it in under 24 hours, whereas your support team have been sitting on this for at least 6 months, as reported in the forums Evelyn and Jet so "helpfully" suggested I check. After being on the receiving end of a shining example of how not to offer IT support according to your own certification course, I'll let your crack team figure it out on their own. Rest assured, I won't bother to reach out to them again.

By Steven B

Oct 12, 2023

Exposure to new vocabulary, etc. is excellent. In the fog of learning I picked up much terrific minutiae. Yet somehow with the minutiae I need a better understanding of the purpose of ip addressing, network stack model work, reside and interplay. Better illustration of the handoff between layers and when they handoff and why. Possibly my reviewing the material will prove to strengthen my grasp of this and other but I'll probably have to go to other resources. Through the networking I have felt as though I was lacking some fundamental understanding even as I was learning. I do not feel confident. Thinking about what I've learned is a blur. I guess future repetition and re-reading will help. Hopefully, the completion of the certificate will be valued by employers.