Five Days • Instructor-led
About this CompTIA Training Course
CompTIA Network+ Certification Prep (N10-007) builds on your existing user-level knowledge and experience with personal computer operating systems and networks, adding fundamental skills and concepts that you will need to advance in a networking career. As such, it focuses on the content described in the exam objectives for the CompTIA Network+ certification.
Earning CompTIA’s Network+ certification increases your value in the marketplace by providing proof of your knowledge, skills, and ability to manage, maintain, troubleshoot, install, operate, and configure a basic network infrastructure in a vendor-neutral format.
Our CompTIA Network+ Certification Prep Course allows you to demonstrate the concepts covered on the Network+ exam using a sophisticated remote lab environment. You will work through several practice exams* to reinforce your knowledge and gain essential networking skills in labs featuring networking devices such as routers, switches, access points, and others.
What You’ll Learn
- Identify basic network theory concepts and major network communications methods
- Describe bounded network media
- Describe unbounded network media
- Identify the major types of network implementations
- Identify TCP/IP addressing and data delivery methods
- Analyze routing and switching technologies
- Identify the components of a TCP/IP implementation
- Analyze network security
- Implement network security
- Identify the components of a WAN implementation
- Identify the components used in cloud computing and virtualization
- Identify the components of a remote network implementation
- Manage networks
- Troubleshoot network issues
Course Outline
Network theory
- Network types
- Network standards and the OSI model
- Data transmission methods
Bounded network media
- Copper media
- Fiber optic media
- Bounded network media installation
Unbounded network media
- Wireless networking
- Wireless network devices and components
- Implement wireless technology
- Internet of Things
Network implementations
- Physical network topologies
- Logical network topologies
- Ethernet networks
- Network devices
TCP/IP addressing and data delivery
- The TCP/IP protocol site
- IPv4 addressing
- Default IP addressing schemes
- Create custom IP addressing schemes
- IPv6 address implementation
Routing and switching
- Switching
- Network packet routing
- Static and dynamic IP routing
- VLANs
TCP/IP implementation
- Assign IP addresses
- Naming services
- TCP/IP utilities
- Common TCP/IP protocols
Network security analysis
- Introduction to network security
- Network security policies
- Physical security controls
- Common network attacks
Network security implementation
- Authentication
- Access control
- Port, service, and protocol security
- Wireless network security
- Patches and updates
- Mitigation techniques
WAN infrastructure
- WAN basics
- WAN connectivity methods
- WAN transmission technologies
- VoIP
Cloud and virtualization techniques
- Virtualization technologies
- Network storage technologies
- Cloud computing
Remote networking
- Remote network architectures
- Remote access network implementations
- Virtual private networking
Network management
- Monitor networks
- Document the network
- Establish baselines
- Network performance optimization
- Ensure business continuity
Troubleshooting network issues
- Network troubleshooting methodology
- Network troubleshooting tools
- Troubleshoot wired connectivity and performance issues
- Troubleshoot wireless connectivity and performance issues
- Troubleshoot network service issues