Networking Essentials: A CompTIA Network+ N10-007 Textbook, 5th Edition

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Features

• Provides a practical approach to introductory networking concepts
• Presents tons of hands-on activities to help students learn by doing
• Clearly outlines goals for each chapter with chapter-opening objectives and introductions
• Highlights key terms and acronyms in the margins to enhance retention of networking terminology
• Guides readers through application of concepts through configuring, analyzing, and troubleshooting sections
• Includes extensive problem sets, summaries, questions, and problems (including critical thinking questions) at the end of each chapter to assess learning
• Allows students to practice custom-designed, hands-on router and switch configuration exercises with the Net-Challenge software

Description

Thoroughly updated to reflect the CompTIA Network+ N10-007 exam, Networking Essentials, Fifth Edition is a practical, up-to-date, and hands-on guide to the basics of networking. Written from the viewpoint of a working network administrator, it requires absolutely no experience with either network concepts or day-to-day network management.

Networking Essentials, Fifth Edition guides readers from an entry-level knowledge in computer networks to advanced concepts in Ethernet and TCP/IP networks; routing protocols and router configuration; local, campus, and wide area network configuration; network security; wireless networking; optical networks; Voice over IP; the network server; and Linux networking. This edition contains additional coverage of switch security, troubleshooting IP networks, authorization and access control, best practices for disaster recovery, network infrastructure configuration and management, data traffic network analysis, network security, and VoIP. It also covers approximately 250 new terms now addressed by CompTIA’s N10-007 exam.

Clear goals are outlined for each chapter, and every concept is introduced in easy-to-understand language that explains how and why networking technologies are used. Each chapter is packed with real-world examples and practical exercises that reinforce all concepts and guide you through using them to configure, analyze, and fix networks.

The companion web site features labs, Wireshark captures, and chapter quizzes.

KEY PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES

• NET-CHALLENGE SIMULATION SOFTWARE provides hands-on experience with entering router and switch commands, setting up functions, and configuring interfaces and protocols
• WIRESHARK NETWORK PROTOCOL ANALYZER presents techniques and examples of data traffic analysis throughout
• PROVEN TOOLS FOR MORE EFFECTIVE LEARNING AND NETWORK+ PREP, including chapter outlines, summaries, and Network+ objectives
• WORKING EXAMPLES IN EVERY CHAPTER to reinforce key concepts and promote mastery
• KEY TERM DEFINITIONS, LISTINGS, AND EXTENSIVE GLOSSARY to help you master the language of networking
• QUESTIONS, PROBLEMS, AND CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS to help you deepen your
  understanding
  

Sample Content

Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1 Introduction to Computer Networks
• CHAPTER 2 Physical Layer Cabling: Twisted-Pair
• CHAPTER 3 Physical Layer Cabling: Fiber Optics
• CHAPTER 4 Wireless Networking
• CHAPTER 5 Interconnecting the LANs
• CHAPTER 6 TCP/IP
• CHAPTER 7 Introduction to Switch Configuration
• CHAPTER 8 Introduction to Router Configuration
• CHAPTER 9 Routing Protocols
• CHAPTER 10 Internet Technologies: Out to the Internet
• CHAPTER 11 Troubleshooting
• CHAPTER 12 Network Security
• CHAPTER 13 Cloud Computing and Virtualization
• CHAPTER 14 Codes and Standards
• Glossary

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