Chapter 7
Introduction to TCP/IP
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA A+ 220–1001 EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
- ✓ 2.1 Compare and contrast TCP and UDP ports, protocols, and their purposes.
- Ports and protocols
- 21—FTP
- 22—SSH
- 23—Telnet
- 25—SMTP
- 53—DNS
- 80—HTTP
- 110—POP3
- 143—IMAP
- 443—HTTPS
- 3389—RDP
- 137–139—NetBIOS/NetBT
- 445—SMB/CIFS
- 427—SLP
- 548—AFP
- 67/68—DHCP
- 389—LDAP
- 161/162—SNMP
- TCP vs. UDP
- Ports and protocols
- ✓ 2.6 Explain common network configuration concepts.
- IP addressing
- Static
- Dynamic
- APIPA
- Link local
- DNS
- DHCP
- Reservations
- IPv4 vs. IPv6
- Subnet mask
- Gateway
- VPN
- VLAN
- NAT
- IP addressing
Networking protocols are a lot like human languages in that they are the language that computers speak when talking to each other. If computers don’t speak the same language, they won’t be able to communicate. To complicate matters, there are dozens of different languages...