Standards - Career & Technical Education

Incorporate safety procedures in handling, operating, and maintaining tools and machinery; handling materials; utilizing personal protective equipment; maintaining a safe work area; and handling hazardous materials and forces.

Demonstrate effective workplace and employability skills, including communication, awareness of diversity, positive work ethic, problem-solving, time management, and teamwork.

Explore the range of careers available in the field and investigate their educational requirements, and demonstrate job-seeking skills including resume-writing and interviewing.

Advocate and practice safe, legal, responsible, and ethical use of information and technology tools specific to the industry pathway.

Participate in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) to increase knowledge and skills and to enhance leadership and teamwork.

Use technology to collaborate with peers and/or experts to create digital artifacts that can be published online for a target audience.

Formulate new ideas, solve problems, or create products through the design and engineering process by utilizing testing, prototypes, and user feedback.

Compare and contrast the functions and applications of common physical and logical network topologies.

Differentiate among common network infrastructures.

Identify and formulate binary, decimal, and hexadecimal numbers.

Compare and contrast the layers of the Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model and the Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) model.

Illustrate encapsulation and decapsulation within layers of a standard network model.

Compare and contrast the services and applications used to perform basic network operations.

Differentiate among network categories, technologies, and topologies.

Explain the purpose of routing and switching and their associated technologies and protocols.

Summarize the purpose of common TCP/IP protocols.

Differentiate between public and private IP addressing schemes.

Compare and contrast IPv4 and IPv6 addressing features, methods, and characteristics.

Categorize classful addresses according to specific network use.

Interpret classless inter-domain routing (CIDR) notation (subnetting).

Explain the functions and applications of common networking devices.

Compare and contrast common local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) connection types.

Identify common network connectors.

Demonstrate the use of common networking tools in a given scenario.

Differentiate among common network wiring termination standards.

Identify transceivers and media converters and explain their uses.

Compare and contrast copper and fiber Ethernet standards.

Differentiate among virtualization and network storage technologies.

Interpret and explain technical network documents and text.

Interpret network documentation and diagrams.

Compare and contrast business continuity and disaster recovery concepts based on current industry practices.

Explain common scanning, monitoring, and patching processes and summarize their expected outputs.

Compare and contrast media access control techniques used in networks.

Configure a router with basic settings.

Differentiate among common wireless communication methods.