Course description
This internationally recognised certification is your ticket to a career in IT. During this CompTIA Network+ Certification N10-008 course, you will explore basic networking, deploying the appropriate cabling solution, the purposes of physical security devices, and much more. Join the [past_students_count] students who have enrolled with Open Study College today and improve your skillset within the IT Industry with an accredited award. Please note, once a new version of this course becomes available, students will be enrolled on the latest version. What next? Following the successful completion of this course, you will be able to put your newfound knowledge into practice and develop your career. If after, you're looking to enhance your IT knowledge even further, take a look at the other IT and computer courses we offer. Jobs that use knowledge gained from a CompTIA course:
- IT support support specialist
- Help desk technician
- Field technician
- Tier I support specialist
- Desktop support specialist
- Associate network engineer
- Systems support technician
- Junior systems administrator
Course Content
Module 1 Networking concepts
- Basic networking
- OSI model: devices, applications, protocols, and services at their appropriate OSI layers
- Protocols and ports: the purposes and uses of ports and protocols
- Switching: the concepts and characteristics of switching
- Routing: the concepts and characteristics of routing.
- Advanced switching and routing concepts: IPv6 and performance concepts
- IP addressing: configuring the appropriate IP addressing components
- Network types and topologies: characteristics of network topologies, types and technologies
- Wireless technologies: implementing the appropriate wireless technologies and configurations
- Cloud concepts: models, services, and their purposes.
- Network services: the functions of network services
Module 2 Infrastructure
- Cabling solutions: deploying the appropriate cabling solution
- Network device placement and installation: determining the appropriate placement of networking devices on a network and install/configure them
- Advanced network devices: the purposes and use cases for advanced networking devices
- Virtualization and network storage technologies: the purposes of virtualization and network storage technologies
- WAN technologies: service types, configuration and termination
Module 3 Network operations
- Documentation: using appropriate documentation and diagrams to manage the network
- Business continuity and disaster recovery: availability concepts, recovery and SLA requirements
- Scanning, monitoring, and patching: common scanning, monitoring and patching processes and summarize their expected outputs
- Remote access methods: using remote access methods
- Policies and best practices: on-boarding and off-boarding procedures, password policies, privileged user agreement
Module 4 Network security
- Physical security devices: the purposes of physical security devices
- Authentication and access control: authentication and access controls
- Basic wireless network security: secure a basic wireless network
- Common network attacks: understand common networking attacks
- Network device hardening: implementing network device hardening
- Common mitigation techniques: common mitigation techniques and their purposes
Module 5 Network troubleshooting and tools
- Network troubleshooting methodology: understand network troubleshooting methodology
- Using the appropriate tool: using the appropriate tools, including hardware and software
- Troubleshoot wired connectivity and performance: troubleshooting common wired connectivity and performance issues
- Troubleshoot wireless connectivity and performance: troubleshooting common wireless connectivity and performance issues
- Troubleshoot common network service issues: troubleshooting common network service issues such as incorrect IP addresses, gateways, netmasks and server issues
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