Network Administration

King Saud University

College of Computer and Information Sciences

Department of Information Technology

CAP333: Network Administration

1st Semester 1430/1431 h

General Course Information

Text Books:

Title:        Hands-On Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Administration
Author:    Dan DiNicolo
ISBN:       0-619-18611-9 © 2004
Publisher: Thomson Course Technology
Publish date: July 11, 2003

Course Objectives

The goal of this course is to prepare students for the real-world challenges of a Microsoft networking professional. It is designed based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 with some extra examples of other server operating systems.

Web Site

Supplementary information for the course is available at course site. The Web site contains class notes, PowerPoint slides, class announcements, the course syllabus, test dates, and other information for the course.

Grading and Evaluation Criteria

• 40 % of the grade is based on a final examination.
• 40 % of the grade is based midterms (3 midterms 10 , 15 , 15)

An in-class review will be held prior to each examination.

• 20% of the grade is based on completing case project assignments sheets + lab quizzes
  • Assignments can be theoretical or practical.
  • They can be assignment of one student or 2 students (try to find your partner)

Make up Exam Policies

• Make-up exams will only be given in the case of serious illness as verified by the committee of the make-up exams and the Dean of Students office with written documentation from a doctor.
• Make-up exams will be comprehensive exam at the end of the semester.
• The excuses forms taken from Mrs. Nouf alyahya and completed with the needed information and handed to us within one week after exam date.

Assignments handing and correcting policies:

• All assignments will be handing on Saturday in a box in front of your TAs office from 8 - 12.
• E-mailed assignments are not accepted.
• Cheating is prohibited, so if you handed a copy assignment both you and your friend will take -1.
• Write your full information (name, ID, section #), any assignment without them will loose (0.25).
• Late assignment are not accepted, if you are sick bring a medical report, send a soft-copy of your assignment to your tutorial instructor via e-mail on the same day of the due date until 2 p.m. , and hand your assignment to your tutorial instructor ((personally)) later along with the medical report. If you either didn’t send your assignment or you didn’t hand a hard copy to your instructor, your assignment will not be corrected.
• Under-doors handed sheets will not be corrected, hand your assignment to your instructor personally.
• One Question of each assignment will be corrected randomly, so make sure that you solve all of them correctly

Course Outline