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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

Fundamentals of cloud computing

Cloud computing is one of the most demanding and trending topics within the IT industry as more organizations are migrating their services, applications, and servers to the cloud. As an aspiring network professional, it’s essential to understand cloud computing, the types of cloud deployment models, and cloud services.

Cloud computing can be demystified as paying for the resources you use within a cloud service provider’s data center. Imagine your organization wants to acquire additional servers to host new applications and services needed by the employees to perform their daily duties. Some of the concerns of acquiring new servers are the time it takes for the vendor to ship the servers to the customer’s location, the time it takes the IT staff members to set up and deploy the applications on the servers, and any additional maintenance on the equipment if any issues should occur in the future.

What if your organization can...