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CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Certification Guide - Second Edition

By : Glen D. Singh
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CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Certification Guide - Second Edition

By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

This book helps you to easily understand core networking concepts without the need of prior industry experience or knowledge within this fi eld of study. This updated second edition of the CompTIA Network+ N10-008 Certification Guide begins by introducing you to the core fundamentals of networking technologies and concepts, before progressing to intermediate and advanced topics using a student-centric approach. You’ll explore best practices for designing and implementing a resilient and scalable network infrastructure to support modern applications and services. Additionally, you’ll learn network security concepts and technologies to effectively secure organizations from cyber attacks and threats. The book also shows you how to efficiently discover and resolve networking issues using common troubleshooting techniques. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained sufficient knowledge to efficiently design, implement, and maintain a network infrastructure as a successful network professional within the industry. You’ll also have gained knowledge of all the official CompTIA Network+ N10-008 exam objectives, networking technologies, and how to apply your skills in the real world.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1: Networking Concepts
9
Part 2: Network Implementation
13
Part 3: Network Operations
17
Part 4: Network Security and Troubleshooting
22
Chapter 18: Practice Exam

Exploring VLAN

In most networks, there are a lot of different traffic types, such as voice traffic generated from VoIP phones, video traffic from surveillance systems and telepresence equipment, and data traffic from end devices such as computers, servers, and printers. Imagine that an organization wants to segment these traffic types by implementing separate and dedicated network equipment for each type of traffic. This would mean creating three physically isolated networks to keep each traffic type apart from the other. The disadvantage of performing physical segmentation is the high cost of purchasing dedicated network equipment to build these networks.

With the evolution of the networking industry, we can create a fully converged network to allow all traffic types to use the same physical network while implementing logical segmentation of traffic using network switches. This allows for the creation of a single, well-designed physical network for voice, video, and data traffic...