The Internet: An Introduction (Technical) (3 day)

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Course Overview

The growth in both the usage and subscriber base of the Internet has been enormous, and most corporates are now looking at how best to provide Internet support for their users. The Internet offers the possibility of electronic communication at low cost to customers, suppliers and partners, whilst giving access to an increasing range of information sources. Many organisations are also looking to provide their own services across the Internet or internal Intranets.

This comprehensive three-day course provides a valuable introduction for companies considering connecting to the Internet or for staff newly assigned to provide Internet support. The course develops from issues involved in connecting to the Internet such as TCP/IP and DNS, to the Internet services, email, the World Wide Web and the browser clients, Web page design; Security issues and an overview of electronic commerce.!

This course is made up of a mix of lectures and hands-on experience. The practical sessions will reinforce many of the major topics covered.

Course Outline

Introduction

• History and culture
• Internet growth
• The Internet then and now
• Theory behind the Internet
• Internet administration
• Requests for Comments (RFCs)
• Accesing the Net - browsers
• Searching Tools

Internetworking with TCP/IP

• TCP/IP - the Internet protocols
• User's view of the Internet
• The reality of the Internet
• TCP/IP protocol stack
• Internet Protocol (IP)
• IPv6
• Connecting networks together
• IP routing
• TCP and UDP
• Sockets and services
• Dynamic Routing

IP Address to Name Resolution

• Host name resolution
• Hosts file
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Name servers
• Domain and address registration

Internet Connectivity

• Modem transmission
• ISDN
• Digital leased line
• LAN connectivity
• Service providers
• Costs of connection
• Connection protocols
• Configuring a workstation

The World Wide Web

• About the World Wide Web
• Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) and URLs
• Browsers and servers
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Using the WWW
• Optimising WWW access
• Browser functions
• Microsoft
• Netscape
• Other browsers
• Enhancing the browser - ActiveX Controls and Plug-ins

Web Page Design

• Understanding HTML
• HTML standards
• HTML editing tools
• Addressing
• Document links
• Presenting text
• Incorporating multimedia
• Tables

Internet Services

• Core services available on the Internet - Usenet, FTP, Gopher, Archie and Telnet

Introduction to Email

• Mail addressing
• Messages
• Attachments and MIME
• Transfer and delivery
• Tasks of a mail system
• Mail routing
• Mailing lists
• Mail protocols - SMTP, POP, IMAP and X.400
• E-mail clients

Internet Security

• Protecting yourself
• Private and Public Key Encryption
• Firewalls
• Filtering
• Gateways
• Proxy servers
• Certification and authentication

Electronic Commerce

• What is e-commerce?
• E-commerce categories
• Net deliverable goods and services
• Web marketing
• Benefits of e-commerce
• E-commerce stages
• Transactional security
• Financial transactions - SET
• How SET works

The Internet: An Introduction (Technical) (3 day) / IN-TF