Techtorium - Give your IT career a kick start!
Home
The Difference
Courses
International Students
Pricing
Our Location
Testimonials
About Us
Contact
Techtorium - Give your IT career a kick start!

Hometech Course

The Hometech Course from Techtorium may be just what you are looking for.

If you want to. . .
  • Take the worry out of small computer repairs and upgrades
  • Answer your own questions
  • Confidently install software and hardware
  • Trouble shoot system security issues

Why pay for an IT technician when with a little more knowledge you could have solved the problem yourself?

PC
  • Identify key hardware components
  • Look at basic software components
Troubleshooting Strategies for PC’s
  • Designing a troubleshooting methodology
  • Running the “Power on Self Test” POST
  • Employing advanced diagnostic programmes
Working with basic PC Components
  • Exploring the motherboard
  • Troubleshooting the power supply
  • Monitors and display adaptors
  • Working with Printers and Ports
The Memory
  • Upgrading memory
  • Installing disk drives
  • Configuring hard disk drives/DVD and external drives
Solving Software Problems

The Wireless LAN Revolution
  • Wireless network fundamentals
  • Advantages of Wi-Fi networks
  • Installing a basic Wi-Fi network
  • Choosing Wi-Fi standards
  • Troubleshooting and optimization
  • Securing the network
  • Wired Equvalent Privacy (WEP)
  • Wi-Fi Projected access (WPA)
  • Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
  • Configuring a wireless firewall

Networking Overview

Fundamentals of a network
  • Types of networks, hardware and software
Cabling and port configuration
  • Displaying NIC configuration
  • LAN and WAN standards
Interfacing with the network
Solving Network congestion
Integrating the network and transport layers
The role of TCP/IP
Configuring IP addresses
  • Public versus private addresses
  • Allocating addresses withDHCP
  • Managing addresses with ifconfig/ipconfig
  • Resolving address conflicts
  • Identifying common protocol issues
  • Troubleshooting the application layer
Fine-tuning Network Services
  • Understanding firewalls and DNS
  • Setting up TCP points
Managing your network
  • Setting up and securing shared folders
  • Setting up user permissions
  • Controlling user’s internet access
The Time

Tuesdays 4:30pm—6:30pm

The Dates

Ring us to find out the next available course

The Course Cost

$500.00 (incl GST)
In addition to this Patrick is happy to advise on any texts that you may find useful to support your learning

Enrolment

Download the Enrolment Form


Contact us for more information
Techtorium - Give your IT career a kick start!

Copyright © 2003 Techtorium - New Zealand Institute of Information Technology