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