CompTIA Network+ Deluxe Study Guide

Description

More than 220,000 network professionals have achieved the Network+ certification since its inception, second only to the Cisco Certified Network Associate certification. This hardcover edition includes Sybex CompTIA Network+ Virtual Lab network simulator plus four additional bonus exams and 100 additional flashcards and is fully updated for the first revision of the exam since 2005. The guide contains concise information on security essentials and standards, using practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience and covers key exam topics including network technologies, media and topologies, devices, management, tools, and security.

  Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

  For Instructors: Teaching supplements are available for this title.

CONTENTS:

1. Introduction to Networks.

  
2. The Open Systems Interconnection Specifications.

  
3. Networking Topologies, Connectors and wiring standards.

  
4. The Current Ethernet specifications.

  
5. Networking Devices.

  
6. Introducing the Internet Protocol.

  
7. IP Addressing.

  
8. IP Subnetting, Troubleshooting IP and Introduction to NAT.

  
9. Introduction to Routing.

  
10. Routing Protocols.

  
11. Switching and Virtual Lans.

  
12. Wireless Technologies.

  
13. Authentication and access control.

  
14. Network threats and mitigation.

  
15. Physical and hardware security.

  
16. Wide area networking.

  
17. Operating systems and command line tools.

  
18. Software and hardware tools.

  
19. Network troubleshooting.

  
20. Management, and optimization.