Chapter 11
Switching and Virtual LANs
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA NETWORK+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
✓ 1.3 Explain the concepts and characteristics of routing and switching
- Properties of network traffic
- Broadcast domains
- Collision domains
- Segmentation and interface properties
- VLANs
- Trunking (802.1Q)
- Tagging and untagging ports
- Port mirroring
- Switching loops/spanning tree
- PoE and PoE+ (802.3af, 802.3at)
- MAC address table
- Distributed switching
✓ 2.2 Given a scenario, determine the appropriate placement of networking devices on a network and install/configure them
- Switch
- Bridge
✓ 3.2 Compare and contrast business continuity and disaster recovery concepts.
- Port aggregation
✓ 4.2 Explain authentication and access controls
- Port security
- MAC filtering
✓ 4.6 Explain common mitigation techniques and their purposes
- Change native VLAN
- Switch port protection
- Spanning tree
- Flood guard
- BPDU guard
- Root guard
- DHCP snooping
- Network segmentation...
