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CompTIA Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-007

You're reading from   CompTIA Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-007 Todd Lammle's bestselling CompTIA Network+ Study Guide for the N10-007 exam!

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119432258
Length 1008 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Todd Lammle
Todd Lammle, Cisco certified in almost every category, is the authority on Cisco networking and certification. His three decades of real-world experience is prevalent in his writing. He is an experienced networking engineer with very practical experience working on the largest bounded and unbounded networks in the world at such companies as Xerox, Hughes Aircraft, Texaco, AAA, Cisco, and Toshiba, among many others. Todd has published over 60 books, including the very popular and bestselling CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide and Cisco Firepower NGIPS. Todd runs an international training company from Texas, and a large scale consulting business out of Colorado. You can reach Todd through his forum and blog at www.lammle.com/ccna.
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1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Networks 3. Chapter 2: The Open Systems Interconnection Specifications 4. Chapter 3: Networking Topologies, Connectors, and Wiring Standards 5. Chapter 4: The Current Ethernet Specifications 6. Chapter 5: Networking Devices 7. Chapter 6: Introduction to the Internet Protocol 8. Chapter 7: IP Addressing 9. Chapter 8: IP Subnetting, Troubleshooting IP, and Introduction to NAT 10. Chapter 9: Introduction to IP Routing 11. Chapter 10: Routing Protocols 12. Chapter 11: Switching and Virtual LANs 13. Chapter 12: Wireless Networking 14. Chapter 13: Authentication and Access Control 15. Chapter 14: Network Threats and Mitigation 16. Chapter 15: Physical Security and Risk 17. Chapter 16: Wide Area Networks 18. Chapter 17: Troubleshooting Tools 19. Chapter 18: Software and Hardware Tools 20. Chapter 19: Network Troubleshooting 21. Chapter 20: Management, Monitoring, and Optimization 22. Index
23. Advert
24. EULA
Appendix A: Answers to Written Labs
1. Appendix B: Answers to Review Questions
2. Appendix C: Subnetting Class A

Chapter 16
Wide Area Networks

THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA NETWORK+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

✓ 1.3 Explain the concepts and characteristics of routing and switching.

  • Explain the concepts and characteristics of routing and switching.

✓ 1.5 Compare and contrast the characteristics of network topologies, types and technologies

  • Types
    • LAN
    • MAN
    • WAN

✓ 2.5 Compare and contrast WAN technologies

  • Service type
    • ISDN
    • T1/T3
    • E1/E3
    • OC-3 – OC-192
    • DSL
    • Metropolitan Ethernet
    • Cable broadband
    • Dial-up
    • PRI
  • Transmission mediums
    • Satellite
    • Copper
    • Fiber
    • Wireless
  • Characteristics of service
    • MPLS
    • ATM
    • Frame relay
    • PPP
    • DMVPN
    • SIP trunk
  • Termination
    • Demarcation point
    • CSU/DSU
    • Smart jack

✓ 3.3 Explain common scanning, monitoring, and patching processes and summarize their expected outputs

  • Metrics
  • Error rate
  • Utilization
  • Packet drops
  • Bandwidth/throughput

We have wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs), but what’s really the key difference...

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Todd Lammle, Cisco certified in almost every category, is the authority on Cisco networking and certification. His three decades of real-world experience is prevalent in his writing. He is an experienced networking engineer with very practical experience working on the largest bounded and unbounded networks in the world at such companies as Xerox, Hughes Aircraft, Texaco, AAA, Cisco, and Toshiba, among many others. Todd has published over 60 books, including the very popular and bestselling CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide and Cisco Firepower NGIPS. Todd runs an international training company from Texas, and a large scale consulting business out of Colorado. You can reach Todd through his forum and blog at www.lammle.com/ccna.
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