Chapter 3
Networking Topologies, Connectors, and Wiring Standards
THE FOLLOWING COMPTIA NETWORK+ EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:
✓ 2.0 Infrastructure
✓ 2.1 Given a scenario, deploy the appropriate cabling solution.
- Media types
- Copper
- UTP
- STP
- Coaxial
- Fiber
- Single-mode
- Multimode
- Plenum vs. PVC
- Connector types
- Copper
- RJ-45
- RJ-11
- BNC
- DB-9
- DB-25
- F-type
- Fiber
- LC
- ST
- SC
- APC
- UPC
- MTRJ
- Transceivers
- SFP
- GBIC
- SFP+
- QSFP
- Characteristics of fiber transceivers
- Bidirectional
- Duplex
- Termination points
- 66 block
- 110 block
- Patch panel
- Fiber distribution panel
- Copper cable standards
- Cat 3
- Cat 5
- Cat 5e
- Cat 6
- Cat 6A
- Cat 7
- RG-6
- RG-59
- Copper termination standards
- TIA/EIA 568a
- TIA/EIA 568b
- Crossover
- Straight-through
The idea of connecting a bunch of computers together hasn’t changed a whole lot since the mid-1980s, but how we go about doing that certainly has. Like everything else, the technologies and devices we create our networks with have evolved dramatically...
