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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

JP

Jan 25, 2018

A lot of information, but i feel like i fully understand core networking concepts. A lot of this info has helped me comprehend what will be required for me when I take my Network + certification exam.

BC

Jun 23, 2018

I loved this course. When I had issues support was awesome sauce. I really enjoyed the puns this instructor used to keep you from going off in a daze. I really wish I would have found Coursera sooner.

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By Phil D

Feb 6, 2020

Overall this was a good course but some of the subjects were extremely dense and could have used a bit more explanation. Additionally some of the videos used terminology that wasn't defined until later videos making things a little confusing.

By Seth H

Jan 19, 2021

This course is where you get to flex your brain. All the knowledge is not spoon fed and you will have to do the supplemental reading. I will be going back and reviewing the material because it is a lot to absorb in one run. Getting excited.

By Kevin R

Oct 20, 2020

A lot of information. But I had issues with it continually saying network disconnected during quizzes and tests. Also there was issues with the test on IPv6 compression where the answers are wrong according to the reading and video lessons.

By Jordan K

Sep 29, 2019

Great course, Lots of information covered. Would like to see more interactive scenes where you use your subnetting to actually set up networks and troubleshoot running commands to learn to use what the computer outputs in the command line.

By Kyle W

Oct 10, 2020

A LOT of information to take in here. The course could be a bit better as far as retaining information. But I feel a lot of the skills here will really sink in as you use them day to day. This is by far the hardest part of the program.

By Faisal M

Apr 24, 2021

course instructor talks way too fast for beginner learners, maybe take your time and not just read off the teleprompter would help a-lot. Besides that very informative course and i learned a-lot from it. Good structure of course as well.

By Utku Ü

Mar 16, 2021

It was not too easy like the Technical Support Fundamentals and it was not as hard as it looks from outside. Course is right on point. 4/5 because quizes have some questions that could easily be misunderstood. Other than that it's great.

By Valentine G

Apr 15, 2023

I had some trouble getting through the Routing and Subnet quiz, and had to do some extra supplemental reading and videos to finally get that portion, but overall the course was very informative. Really enjoyed modules 5 and 6 the most.

By Preston R J

Apr 7, 2022

Was decent material. Although, they didn't really go into details on how we can really use this information during a support opportunity or ultilize the information in practice. They did elude to including this in future courses though.

By Akshay K K R

Jun 29, 2021

A good course that explains all the basics, even for those with limited knowledge of networking. The course provides a brief overview of the basics of networking and many related topics, including emerging technologies. Simply awesome!

By Luke N

Apr 23, 2023

Overall it is a very solid course, but there are a few holes in the material. The graded assignments at the end of touched on topics and details that were not covered in the provided lessons and required outside sources for completion.

By Adam H

Jan 21, 2022

Such a good course. Very clear and well done. But some of the graphics had minor errors that weren't acknowledged, and it's unclear whether some of the assessments had a small number of inaccuracies or vagueness that led to confusion.

By Jaxon H

Apr 16, 2020

This course can be very dry, but a lot of that has to do with the subject matter; this is very technical heavy and not so much skill based. This course required a lot of re-watching videos for me. Overall good, just a lot to take in.

By Zhenbang D

Dec 5, 2020

It really covered a lot of topics, but I just hope that it can provide more hands-on exercises or some real-world examples, like making a video showing how each layer in TCP/IP model works and how to troubleshoot a real-world problem.

By Rey R

Mar 7, 2021

very informative, i felt like there was a lot less emphasis on helping people understand and just more on the info. i still learned a lot but i wish there was more real life applications like in the labs that were in the first lesson

By Michael B

May 10, 2022

Very good. That being said, I am a very good note taker yet some of the quiz questions,I believe were not covered in the videos or the supplemental reading. This is a minority of the questions yet it is annoying. It could be me.

By Ronald A B J

Feb 1, 2021

This course is very long and draining! Definitely need lemon juice or coffee to get through this along with time to process all the information. But overall I think it is pretty cool and broken into nice "byte" size portions (LOL)

By P S

Jul 5, 2020

Course helped to understand basic terminologies and made my basics clear but it

must also include somewhat practical application of these terms in network troubleshooting

as well as other day to day understandings.Overall its nice

By Cristóbal H J

Nov 4, 2018

Strong course, helped me a lot but it was quite difficult comparing to the previous one. I feel like sometimes goes too much into details before giving you the big picture, but anyhow , if you put the time, you are going to learn.

By Damilola J A

May 8, 2020

I really enjoyed the course. There were many things to learn and a few were challenging but it was absolutely worth it. There's the feeling of knowing what's going on behind the scenes with activities that users take for granted.

By Thomas A

Nov 15, 2022

The graded Plugins were all in Russian, making it a trial and error guessing game, but the content was very in depth for how networking works on a basic level. I can't wait to see how these evolve into us managing these aspects.

By Josephine C

Jun 2, 2022

My only issue is that when I was taking the IPv6 Compression quiz I had a lot of issues with confirming answers until I did some reading where there's some sort of a glitch with the answers. PLEASE fix that for future students.

By Keith B

Sep 14, 2021

I was a bit disappointed that there were no Qwik Labs components in this module like this last one. This course seemed to have less emphasis on practically applying the skills related to networking. Also, too many cheesy jokes.

By Shezell F

Aug 16, 2021

It hard topic to begin with but overall it had help me understand how networking work. The good thing is having a forum to look up the problem to fix the issues overall trying to test the function as well is the best experience

By Diamond m

May 5, 2020

yes the course is technical , but it would be really helpful to try an implement more visual learning for the user since the classes can be such data dumps at times and the user can get overwhelmed by the steady stream of info.