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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

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.

AG

Dec 30, 2020

The course had some ups and downs, but it was a good challenge and I did it! I learned so much and I never knew I could do this kind of course. I have gained so much knowledge now from when I started.

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By Dan C

Nov 5, 2020

It really deserves a 5*s but I would make one small recommendation. After submitting the quiz, instead of just saying where in the part it may be when we get to look at the review of the quiz put a link back to the exact section. This way it reinforces the knowledge you are questioning for. I utilized a ton of time searching the internet and the course for additional information. I just think it would assist in the driving home of the knowledge you are asking for.

By Katherine S

Sep 25, 2020

There is a lot of grammatical mistakes in that course, the verbs send, sent, build, built are used interchangeably and in some parts you can tell that the text has been translated by the computer. I tries to send some corrections but i gave up it's too much to concentrate on content and the structure of it. For the users that use English as a second language it might be more difficult because it's not clear what the text is in comparison what the teacher says.

By A T

Apr 24, 2023

Overall I thought that this course was very informative and useful.

If I had to say one negative thing about it is that the section about Subnetting could have been done better. Usually, I get a pretty good grasp of how things work but I felt pretty lost when it came to the Subnetting and the assignments that had us so the Subnet math. I had to go to spend a lot of time studying material not on Coursera to understand well enough to make sense of the assignments.

By Augusto S

Oct 9, 2021

The course has a great deal of information and is suited for beginners, in terms of depth. However, the delivery is given as a sequence of theoretical topics, with somewhat sparse examples. More hands-on exercises would be helpful for comprehension as well. Still, the instructor did a great job in trying to convert such dense content into a single course. A more didactic approach would likely require a series of several Computer Networking courses on its own.

By Maxwell P

Sep 4, 2023

This course covers a lot of Internet based information we use everyday, which is great to know how things really work.

The major downside is the use of acronyms, Too many times the videos and readings don't break down words like DNS and it's used hundreds of times in this course. The videos and reading need to be remade, to explain what DNS is and other acronyms mean, so we remember them. Even now, I don't know what a DNS is outside of looking it up.

By James S

Jul 7, 2021

very challenging course. The videos were good but i felt sometimes the content was too fast and I had limited time to write things down. Would like to see a vocabulary list of all the names and abbreviating. Would help before viewing the videos. This way I could print the list from each course and put them together for reference material. Also would like to see different backgrounds with the videos. The background never changed for this course.

By Diana M

Apr 15, 2020

The material would be easier to retain chunk-to-chunk if the practice quizzes were longer, maybe even as long as the final quiz. The practice quizzes were a good place to test my retainment of info, and go back to check anything I missed, but with only 3 or so questions, a lot could fall through the cracks by the time I got to the big final test, and at that point it was a *lot* of information to go back and sort through, even though I took notes.

By Alex M

Apr 25, 2020

This course was very depth and I definitely understand the fundamentals of computer networking. I have purchases books to help me expand my knowledge for this subject. I feel that this course would benefit from including some of the interactive assessments from course 1 however. I feel that having the opportunity to log into a VM and put into practice what this course is teaching would be a great way to 'learn by doing' in a training environment.

By Dawn G

Jan 6, 2019

Many of the concepts were VERY challenging. It would be nice if they could be explained a little bit slower so all of the information could be grasped easier. I had a very difficult time comprehending some of the concepts. Perhaps this would be a good place for a lab, or more "hands-on" type of practice quizzes instead of 2-3 random questions about what was learned. Overall, there was an extensive amount of information. Very detailed.

By Jerome S

Aug 13, 2022

This course teaches a lot about networking and overall it is very good. The reason why I decided to rate it 4 stars as opposed to 5 is due to the fact that some of the definitions seemed a bit superficial and was not deep enough for my liking. However with that downside, the benefit is that it gives us students greater drive to do more research and look into the concepts for ourselves thus cementing the knowledge in our head further.

By Francis L

Nov 30, 2020

This one is a bit more technical in terms, and definitely needs your utmost attention. There will be times where I felt lost but after re-reading my notes and watching videos again it became more clear. There were parts of this course that felt slow then all of a sudden threw a lot of technical aspects to it. It will definitely be different from person to person but I believe this still gave a lot of valuable information and insight!

By Kristi L

Oct 25, 2020

I enjoyed this course, though I recognize that the information is presents is the tip of the proverbial ice berg. The wireless channel quiz is not difficult, but does not work correctly and is therefore very frustrating. I looked at the discussion boards to find that many others had the same problem of it giving a 0% score when everything was done correctly. Their tips for submission were helpful, but that plug-in needs to be fixed.

By Carolyn O

Dec 15, 2020

I'm very much enjoying this program. Only 2 things are missing. 1) It would be great to provide a glossary at the end of each course. There are so many acronyms and terms. It would be great to have them all in one place, for easy reference. 2) It would be nice if there was more troubleshooting examples reviewed, with the steps to take in resolving common issues. There is so much information, that how to resolve something gets lost.

By Paula M

Sep 21, 2019

Overall, very good course. The instructors kept me motivated to continue. However there were some sections that were not explained adequately enough to do the quiz. There were steps left out of the explanations of subnetting and routing that I had to learn from other online youtube tutorials. What would be helpful is to have some nitty gritty examples that are worked through step by step that get the student prepared for the quiz.

By Jude E

May 26, 2020

I did learn a lot from this course. Some of the course work were challenging and I loved that. However, while I feel like I gained a lot of theoretical knowledge, I was hoping to get more practical skills as well. Since computer networking is such an important aspect of IT today, I would have loved for the course to have incorporated more simulated lab experiences where students can practice some of the skills they learned about.

By Michael S

Jul 28, 2022

There is a vast amount of good knowledge presented here, with a ton of resources that can help the student learn. There are times that I needed to venture out past the supplemental reading that was given, but that goes with jsut about anything in life that we are trying to succeed at. Life is a continuing journey of knowledge, just like this course, and you may need to do a little extra research for concepts to really stick

By Leevi B

Aug 8, 2020

Awesome course! You guys have done very well.

Recommendations for the future is to add labs to really get some of these protocols "demystified" and en-grained into the minds of individuals hungry to learn and grow. I have been in Video Production for 20 years and already this is building confidence in me to approach Cyber Security. Thank you! 5 star program but wanted to reserve a Star to add the Labs. Thanks for your time!

By Sterling H

Jun 30, 2019

Wow I learned a lot about computer networking. The instructors were energetic and shared career advice.The one area of improvement would be the supplementary readings. Instead of Wikipedia articles I want google to write their custom content for the course. The content should cover more about the day to day tasks and responsibility of network engineers and more troubleshooting tips. Overall I really enjoyed the course .

By Dan H

Mar 11, 2022

very complex concepts for me to understand but I do believe I have alot more understanding than I expected to after taking this course. I would like to say that it did seem like some of the questions on the graded assignments seemed difficult to find the answer for when reviewing the material and could of swore I had the right answer a few times. Started to think the correct answers were not actually the right answers.

By Sandip H

Dec 12, 2022

This course is awesomely designed. I learn a lot of things write from basic networking to top level application protocols like DHCP and DNS. I also learnt networking commands like tracert, ipconfig, ping and different protocols involved behind these. All in all this course has made significant impact in my knowledge pool and certainly it will give me an edge over my competitiors. Thank you entire team for this course.

By Francisco S

Aug 22, 2021

Very informative course. To be honest, I struggled keeping up with the course because so much information was thrown at once. But just keep up with it. I came from a background with pretty much no IT experience. I'm learning a lot but I would say to not expect that you will get through the course in days or maybe even a few weeks if you don't have much of a background in the field. But so far I am loving the courses.

By Norman W

Aug 4, 2022

ver y good but i was missing analogies to more grapeable things in order to understand the concepts and technologies better and maybe some simple examples that follow us throughout certain themes. Also the mid video questions from the first course arent here anymore which made me a bit sad. overall a great course but it could be improved in some aspects i think. still great work and glad it exists :) Great work

By John M

Aug 1, 2019

Great section! Someone really needs to proofread both the script below the video and the closed-captioning though - throughout the bulk of these presentations.

Also, the final tests are demonstrably more difficult than the in-between quizzes. I do not mind the difficulty level (that is how one learns), but I feel like I am not learning anything through the quizzes which makes me woefully unprepared for the final.

By Evan L

Apr 11, 2018

Lots of good information in the course, but there were a number of assignments that were incredibly frustrating from a technical standpoint. Taking 3 hours to do a 20 minute assignment due to tech issues is an incredibly frustrating experience. For any future learner, make sure you set aside time for the Qwiklabs and the small tertiary assignments (usually the practical assignments after the 15 question quiz).

By Erin L

Aug 30, 2022

Victor did such a great job with all the puns. lol This is a bit more challenging than the fundamental course but everything taught in here are all valuable knowledge of how the Internet works today & how Computer Networking works. I'm giving this 4 Stars because there was a bug with one of the questions for Ipv6 Compression & it failed me when I submit it. Thank you Victor, for being an amazing instructor.