A four days hands-on training workshop on ‘Introduction to CISCO Network Devices’ was organized by the Office of Information Technology (OIT), UMT in July-August, 2009. The workshop was conducted for IT professionals, network officials and personnel with special interest in CISCO / network devices. Nauman Nadeem, Head OIT, introduced the various services offered by the Department. He also explained the need for conducting the workshop. Dr Abdul Rashid Kausar, Pro-Rector UMT, graced the event and addressed on the occasion. He also urged the participants to utilize the acquired knowledge, and recommended learning of soft networking skills along with hard networking skills. The Pro-Rector awarded certificates to the participants of the workshop and also appreciated the efforts of the OIT team for organizing such an excellent workshop.

Earlier, Muhammad Rashid Ali Malik, In-charge Networking and Technical Support, UMT, conducted the workshop as the Workshop Trainer. He almost covered the coursework of CCNA including topics like building a simple network, Ethernet & Wireless LAN, Functions of Routing, network environment management, small network implementation, medium-sized switched / routed network construction, single area OSPF implementation, access control lists, address space management, and LAN extension into a WAN. The workshop was completely hands-on, and participants experienced by themselves what they were being instructed.