Internetworking Certificate
The FHSU Internetworking Certificate is designed to provide key skills for persons desiring to be computer networking professionals. A student completing the FHSU certificate will have finished the course work necessary to sit for the prestigious Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) examination. The four classes in this certificate also apply toward the FHSU bachelors degree concentration in Telecommunications and Networking offered by the Department of Information Networking and Telecommunications.

Classes that comprise the Internetworking Certificate

• INT 291 Internetworking I
  
• INT 293 Internetworking II
  
  
• INT 680 Network Architecture and Data Communication I
  
• INT 681 Network Architecture and Data Communication II
  

While students may take just the Internetworking I and II courses to sit for the Cisco CCNA exam, research has shown that students who have taken all four courses have a much higher first time pass rate than the national average. Network Architecture and Data Communication I and II address the theory of data communication for Internetworking. Topics include, for Data Communication I, OSI Model, physical media, electrical signal, line coding, link level protocol, network routing and addressing, LAN and WAN concepts. In Network Architecture and Data Communication II, students study internetworking services that reside in the upper layers of the OSI model, and advanced concepts not included in Network Architecture and Data Communication I. Topics may include but are not limited to: Internetwork Design, Internetwork Security, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Point to Point Protocol, advanced routing protocols, and other Internetworking services.