Internetworking Professional Exam 1D0-460: CIW Internetworking Professional
E X A M D I F F I C U L T Y
SYNOPSIS • CIW Professionalvs • Master CIW Administratorvs
CIW’s exam 1D0-460, CIW Internetworking
Professional is an elective requirement for the CIW Professional certification,
and one of the requirements for the Master CIW
Administrator certification.
It is designed for candidates who are
responsible for the design and management of enterprise TCP/IP networks. These
candidates typically fulfill these roles: network engineers, network
architects, internetworking engineers, LAN/WAN administrators, systems
administrators, systems managers and intranet administrators.
The prerequisites
for this exam
are: 1) to fill out the on-line CIW
Certification Agreement; 2) to hold the CIW Associate certification; and 3)
to pass exam 1D0-450, CIW Server Administrator.
The pass score for this form-based multiple choice
exam is 75%, with a minimum score of 70% for each of these two modules: TCP/IP
Internetworking and Advanced TCP/IP Concepts and Practices. There are 60 questions
and the exam has a duration of 75 minutes.
The
topics covered by this exam include:
Internet
infrastructure, including the National Science Foundation network (NSFnet), the
Internet Society (ISOC), and key internetworking protocols
Open
Systems Interconnection reference model (OSI/RM) and the Internet architecture
model, the operational essentials of TCP/IP, and the Requests for Comments
(RFCs) that define these essential elements
Internet
Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing, the concept of uniqueness, IP address
classes, and subnet address calculation
Network access layer, the Internet layer, and the transport layer
Application-layer
Internet protocols, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), File Transfer
Protocol (FTP), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP)
Domain Name System (DNS), including its architecture and record types
BOOTstrap
Protocol (BOOTP), and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and
client
Routing,
including direct versus indirect routing, static versus dynamic routing, and
interior versus exterior protocols and gateways
Troubleshooting tools and TCP/IP network troubleshooting
Network management architectures, protocols and components, including SNMP
IPv4 versus IPv6
IPv6 address architecture
IPv6 routing and security issues
Migration
from IPv4 to IPv6, including the mechanisms proposed by the Simple Internet
Transition
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