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About the Course

This course is designed to provide a full overview of computer networking. We’ll cover everything from the fundamentals of modern networking technologies and protocols to an overview of the cloud to practical applications and network troubleshooting. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: ● describe computer networks in terms of a five-layer model ● understand all of the standard protocols involved with TCP/IP communications ● grasp powerful network troubleshooting tools and techniques ● learn network services like DNS and DHCP that help make computer networks run ● understand cloud computing, everything as a service, and cloud storage...

Top reviews

BC

Jun 24, 2018

I loved this course. When I had issues support was awesome sauce. I really enjoyed the puns this instructor used to keep you from going off in a daze. I really wish I would have found Coursera sooner.

SK

Feb 19, 2021

This was really time-consuming but it was really worth learning. Although in the end, it seems to be very basic things, they would be essential through whatever you want to accomplish in the IT field.

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By Teresa M

Mar 29, 2021

The videos could have been more engaging. It was obvious the instructor was rote reading from prompts. It would have been more interesting to have had varied instructors like with the first Fundamentals course.

By Michael F T D O T N

Aug 1, 2020

This part of the course was hard, having worked in the filed some years back and forgetting most of what i learned, this course became difficult in certain parts but i managed to get most of my knowledge back..

By Ravyn J

Aug 29, 2022

Felt like additional explanations were necessary to elaborate on certain concepts. Some of the quiz questions gave me a feeling of uncertainty because it did not seem to reflect what the material had covered.

By Mai F

Nov 12, 2019

The course is very good but it was full of definitions and numbers. As a beginner, I found difficulty in memorizing all of them. I believe that the course needs more videos and animations to show some details.

By pearl t

Aug 14, 2023

I thought there were some concepts that could've been explained better. I absolutely would not have completed this course without supplemental reading and spending a lot of time with my dear friend Chat GPT.

By FAZAL A M U

Feb 28, 2021

Networking is very deep subject and complicate in some points, I think in 6weeks is just not enough to get along with the topics of the course. Some assignments are very tricky or not clear in what they want.

By Hannah A

Jun 4, 2025

A couple moments of frustration with cop-out feeling statements of "that's beyond the scope of this course" or "too many to list in this course" but overall it felt like a valuable use of my time throughout.

By Jason R

May 6, 2018

A ton of material, they seriously could have made this course 12 weeks instead of 6. For what was covered though, it was great. I'm not 100% sure I'll retain all of it, but it was fun learning it regardless.

By Edwin M

Apr 2, 2020

Aside from some incorrect speech-to-text in a few videos, this was an informative course. Please correct the written information, as it will confuse people who may not speak English as their first language.

By Sandra J

Jul 4, 2020

This was a great experience. I learnt how the networks works in this a few weeks and that was just amazing! There were a lot of new terminologies and they used many animations and examples to explain them.

By Marcio D S

Apr 6, 2020

Very good course that gives you a complete overview of Networking. I just wished the course had more graphics (slides) and that some material could be provided in pdf format to encompass the whole content.

By Collins M

Jul 23, 2018

Love how easy and straight forward a rather complex material was made. Kudos!!!

Gave me the materials i needed, and also provided me with extra materials for those i don't necessary need but might run into.

By Sharon N

Jan 31, 2020

This course is great with information. I only gave it a 4 star because at times I wished that I had more analogies to help me understand the most complicated technical processes. Instructors were super.

By Adebanjo O

Aug 9, 2019

This is really an eye opener to how how networking works and the bits that make it up.

getting to know network layers and terms already heard but not familiar with is a plus for me in wanting to know more.

By kamil

Mar 20, 2018

I have enjoyed this course a lot as it has given me much deeper insight into what I have already known about networking. Although I am still not able to configure my own network I can calculate subnets :D

By kevin v k

Sep 5, 2023

Some topics were really in-depth while others were glossed over quickly, like ipv6 compression.

And some of the questions in the quizzes were a little weirdly formulated.

Still I learned a LOT, thank you!

By Ty W

Mar 21, 2022

This course had a very significant amount of helpful information, but I wish it had provided more practical uses for all this information to test your knowledge, as the course was primarily just theory.

By Aaron F

Sep 3, 2020

Overall a great and very informative course, but I do feel there were some areas that could've used a little more coverage to give a better understanding. But very happy I took and completed the course.

By DANIEL A

Dec 3, 2022

Great course. Very beneficial to anyone interested in understanding and know the basics of networking (how computers communicate with each other). Thanks, waiting to complete the other related courses.

By Charles A

Jul 1, 2022

Overall, this course was great. The star off was because the IPv6 compression quiz was not functional for two weeks, which prevented actual completion of this course until it was eventually resolved.

By Xin Z

Sep 15, 2021

Great courses provide by Google! It gives all the basic skills and knowledge for the beginner to learn computer network. The instructor is very interesting and his smile is really appealing. Thank you!

By Chris G

Sep 9, 2020

It was pretty tough, and I think it's hard to know for sure now what information will actually be relevant as far as use cases go later, but I feel a lot more confident about the material now for sure.

By Arman H

Nov 27, 2020

The course gives a good overview over the computer networking, not going very deep. Quizzes are very useful for learning process. Graphical materials that given during video lessons could be improved.

By Thomas B J

Mar 23, 2018

There are a lot of acronyms and data thrown at you and you can get lost fast. Many of the classes I had to watch a few times over. It's not the easiest to understand but go slowly and you will get it.

By Gino E N

Sep 15, 2019

It is a very interesting course. The subject matter is very well defined and it is a nice, smooth and quick way to bring the beginners to a quite advanced level of understanding the topic. I love it.