Grading
Policy for Voice Networking Lab
1.
Voice Networking Lab
LEC 4 M
2. Instructor: Colleen Morrissey morric@rpi.edu Office hours: By arrangement via email VCC 215 ext. 6594
Teaching Assistants:
"Jessica Reardon" <jcreardon@gmail.com>,
Learning Objectives
The purpose of this course is to be able to explain, configure, verify, and troubleshoot VOIP implementations at an intermediate level.
At the successful completion of this class a student will be able to say:
I can explain VOIP concepts to both technical peers and non-technical management.
I can configure servers, network routers, and switches so that VOIP traffic successfully traverses the network.
I can verify that a VOIP network has been properly configured.
I can troubleshoot VOIP network problems. I can successfully implement solutions.
I can discern true statements from false statements as pertains to VOIP networking as verified by passing industry standard examinations.
3. Required texts:
CCNA Voice 640-461 Official Cert Guide
By Jeremy Ciaora, Michael Valentine
Published by Cisco Press.
Published: Sep 9, 2011
Copyright 2012
Pages: 528
Edition: 1st
ISBN-10: 1-58720-417-7
ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-417-3
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Implementing Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Part 1(CIPT1) Foundation Learning Guide
By Joshua Samuel Finke, Dennis Hartmann
Published by Cisco Press.
Published: Aug 18, 2011
Copyright 2012
Pages: 496
Edition: 2nd
Book
ISBN-10: 1-58720-418-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-418-0
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4. Grading:
Details below, but the short version is: completed labs plus passing both certification exams = your grade.
1. Labs are the most important part of this class. Each week a lab will be assigned. You will have some class time to work on the lab and your scheduled 4 hours of lab time per week. If you do not complete the lab within that time you must make time to finish the lab outside of your scheduled lab time. Each week one student will be assigned to demonstrate the lab to the rest of the class. Labs are for learning and exploration. You will not be spoon fed commands or answers. You will need to discover the correct commands and configuration and thus there may be multiple ways to accomplish your the lab tasks.
2.
Class Attendance - Because students will be
expected to present in each class, attendance at class is REQUIRED.
Attendance will be taken each class. Miss one class - no penalty.
Miss two classes - lost 1 letter grade. Miss 2 classes - lose 2 letter
grades. Miss 3 classes lose 3 letter grades. Each additional class
missed results in an additional loss of 1 grade. It is your
responsibility to make sure that whomever is taking attendance, marks you
present. In the event of illness, notify the instructor/TA.
3. To pass
this course, you must successfully pass the
official Cisco
ICOMM
exam. You may take this exam as many times
as you need to, to pass.
However, the semester is short, and there will not realistically be time
to take these exams more than twice.
Each time you take each exam it costs $250. Lack of money is not an adequate
reason for not retaking the exam, or for not retaking it in a timely fashion. While I am very unhappy about it being
this way, you should evaluate carefully whether you have
sufficient funds to complete this course.
For those who do not wish to take the certification exam and earn the CCNA Voice certification an inclass exam will be given on last day of class. There will be no retakes, this will be closed book. Your final grade will be contingent on grade on this exam. If you take and pass the ICOMM exam you do not need to sit for inclass exam.
Incompletes - Only for medical reasons, or extended illness/death in the family. The fact that you do not have enough money to pay to retake an exam is not an acceptable reason.
Late work - will receive a minimum of one grade reduction and may, at the sole discretion of the instructor, not be accepted at all.
4. Labs - Scheduling Use SIS sign up for 2 lab times each week.
5. Academic Integrity
The corporate environment to which most of
you are about to enter is a TEAM environment. That is good news. There is more
technical information that needs to be assimilated that any single individual
could ever possibly hope to learn. Techies need to understand management.
Management needs some understanding of the technology. Within technical groups
there will be various specialties. Specialists will have to work across
disciplines to get corporate projects completed.
Therefore you are strongly encouraged to help
one another in any way that you can. One of you will become an access-list
expert but get confused by Lan Switching. Another
will really grasp the OSI model in a profound way, but not get dynamic routing.
Help each other. Study groups are encouraged!
When you take the official Cisco exams, you
will be completely on your own. Cheating will be difficult if not impossible.
You will be in a controlled environment in which a computer and a calculator
will be provided. You will not be allowed to bring anything else other than a
pencil into the testing environment.
Some testing centers video tape the testing sessions. Cheating on one of these exams will
result in an F for the course.
Hands on exams at RPI will be the work of
individuals only (no collaboration) and closely monitored. I have never had
anyone successfully cheat on one of these exams (do not take that as a
challenge). However, in the event that cheating is attempted you will fail that
exam. If cheating is suspected, but not certain, then a re-test will be given.
The decision to re-test will be solely at the discretion of the instructor. The first cheating offense on this type
of exam will result in a loss of 2 letter grades for the course. The second offense
will result in an F for the course.
Routers have various HELP functions built
into the Operating System (IOS). It will be possible to use these during the
hands-on exams. This HELP function is not available on the standardized Cisco
exams.
It would be easy to cheat on the lab assignments.
Cheating on these will result in the loss of one letter grade for the course. The second offense will result in an F
for the course.
Using non-approved passwords on networking
devices hurts everyone in the class. It prevents other people from
using the lab and costs the director/instructor/TA valuable time spent in breaking
the password. The first offense of intentionally
using a non-approved password will result in a grade reduction of one
letter. The second offense will result in failure. There is no
penalty for accidently ("fat fingering") setting the wrong password.
Immediately notify your instructor/TA so that they can remedy the situation.