Internet Application
Protocols and Standards

Recommended Study Plan

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Latest change: 2007-08-12

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Note 1: This study plan agrees with the new compendiums in the autumn of 2003. If you use the old compendiums in the spring of 2002 and earlier, then you should use the old study plan.

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Course Description, Work Task Description

Compendium
number and
page number
Title
0 2-13 Course Segment Description
018An overview of common Internet protocols and services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Basic Concepts, DNS

4

39-61

Overhead pictures for the introductory lectures
42-34 Introduction and basic concepts
6 1-67 Coding methods
4 39 Cache Consistency Mechanisms
4 39-61 The Domain Name System
1 19-46 RFC 1034: Domain Names
4 36-37 Distributed File Systems
4 34-35 A Beginner's Guide to URLs
2 425-437 Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
8120-123Overheads on URL and media types
2 445-460 IANA Registry of Port Numbers
2 461-468 IANA Registry of Media Types

ABNF

6 11-16 Coding methods
8 15-25 *:96 Overheads Part 2: ABNF
1 12-18 RFC 2234: Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF

ASN.1

6 16-38 Coding methods
6 70-87 A Layman's Guide to a Subset of ASN.1, BER and DER
1 2-11 ASN.1 syntax
6 88-97 Exercises on ASN.1 and BER

 

 

 

 

XML

6 41-55 XML Introduction
8 106-119 XML OHs
7 913-929 XML Recommendation (=Standard)

E-mail

464-97Message handling overview
8 140-149 *:96 Overheads Part 3: E-mail
4 98-11 Applications: Electronic Mail
8 151-155 *:96 Overheads Part 4: Message Delivery Protocols
4 112-118 Post Office Protocol
4 118-119 Interactive Mail Access Protocol
1 47-305 RFC 2821, 2822, 2197, 2045, 2047, 2048, 2049, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1725, 2060

NNTP, Usenet News Transfer Protocol

4123-125News and Usenet
4 126-136 NNTP, Network News Transfer Protocol
2 299-308 RFC 1036: Standard for Interchange of Usenet Messages
2 411-424 RFC 977: NNTP

X.500, LDAP = Light-Weight Directory Access Protocol

5 55-62 The Organisation of the Directory
1 307-341 RFC 2251-2252 LDAP

FTP = File Transfer Protocol

8 159-162 *:96 Overheads Part 5: FTP
5 10-30 FTP File Transfer System
2 252-287 RFC 959: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

HTTP = Hypertext Transfer Protocol

8 124-130 *:96 Overheads Part 7: HTTP
5 31-36 HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
8131-132OHs on cookies
2 288-298 RFC 2109: HTTP State Management Mechanism (Cookies)
2 309-410 RFC 2068: HTTP 1.1

CGI = Common Gateway Interface

5 4-9 Common Gateway Interface Tutorial

HTML, CSS and XSLT

638-41HTML and CSS
8 71-96 *:96 Overheads Part 6: HTML
6 98-100 HTML Style Guides
3 461-642 HTML 4.0 Specification
10   CSS Recommendation
10   XSLT Recommendation

Miscellaneous

51-3Bildformat i datorer
5 50-54 PICS Internet Access Controls Without Censorship
447-48Internet Relay Chat
6 131-134 WebDAV
9 185-220 WebDAV specification
6 135-139 RSS and Podcasting
9 180.184 RSS 2.0 specification
6 140-142 RSS, Podcasting, SVG, XML Schema
549Other application layer standards

Exercise before the exam

Not printed On-line data base of old exam questions: http://dsv.su.se/jpalme/internet-course/internet-standards-exams.html