Overview
Main description
Practice the IT Skills Essential for Your Success
- 90+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies
- Lab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab results
- Step-by-step scenarios require you to think critically
- Key term quizzes help build your vocabulary
- Lab solutions are only available to instructors and do not appear inside the book
In this lab manual, you'll practice:
- Building a network with the OSI and TCP/IP models
- Configuring network hardware, topologies, and cabling
- Connecting multiple Ethernet components
- Installing and configuring routers and switches
- Working with TCP/IP applications and network protocols
- Configuring IPv6 routing protocols
- Setting up clients and servers for remote access
- Configuring wireless networks
- Securing networks with firewalls, NAT, port filtering, packet filtering, and other methods
- Implementing virtualization
- Building a SOHO network
- Managing and troubleshooting networks
Table of contents
Chapter 1: CompTIA Network+ in a Nutshell
Chapter 2: Network Models
Chapter 3: Cabling and Topology
Chapter 4: Ethernet Basics
Chapter 5: Modern Ethernet
Chapter 6: Installing a Physical Network
Chapter 7: TCP/IP Basics
Chapter 8: The Wonderful World of Routing
Chapter 9: TCP/IP Applications
Chapter 10: Network Naming
Chapter 11: Securing TCP/IP
Chapter 12: Advanced Networking Devices
Chapter 13: IPv6
Chapter 14: Remote Connectivity
Chapter 15: Wireless Networking
Chapter 16: Protecting your Network
Chapter 17: Virtualization
Chapter 18: Network Management
Chapter 19: Building a SOHO Network
Chapter 20: Network Troubleshooting
Glossary
Index
Author comments
Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, MCP, is the industry's leading authority on CompTIA A+ certification and the bestselling author of seven editions of CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide. He is the president and founder of Total Seminars, LLC, a major provider of PC and network repair seminars for thousands of organizations throughout the world, and a member of CompTIA.
Dennis Haley, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, has been teaching CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+ for years, and is the administrator of the CompTIA and Microsoft IT Academy programs at Polytech High School.
