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ICT 305 Data Communication Systems and Networks

300 levelComputing & ICT10 topics

ICT 305 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Signals, bandwidth and transmission media
  2. Analog and digital transmission
  3. Modulation and encoding techniques
  4. Multiplexing and switching
  5. Error detection and correction
  6. The OSI and TCP/IP reference models
  7. LAN topologies and access methods
  8. Medium access control protocols
  9. Network devices and internetworking
  10. IP addressing and subnetting

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

Signals, bandwidth and transmission media

This topic covers what signals are, how bandwidth affects data transmission, and how different transmission media carry signals from one point to another. For the exam, you must master the difference between analog and digital signals, understand why bandwidth limits capacity and quality, and compare guided and unguided media using their properties, uses, and limitations.

What you get for ICT 305