Network Administrator Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to CompTIA Network+ Skills [Paperback]

Develop the skills you need in the real world

Hit the ground running with the street-smart training you'll find in this practical book. Using a "year in the life" approach, it gives you an inside look at network administration, with key information organized around the actual day-to-day tasks, scenarios, and challenges you'll face in the field. This valuable training tool is loaded with hands-on, step-by-step exercises covering all phases of network administration, including:

• Designing a network

• Implementing and configuring networks

• Maintaining and securing networks

• Troubleshooting a network

An invaluable study tool

This no-nonsense book also covers the common tasks that CompTIA expects all of its Network+ candidates to know how to perform. So whether you're preparing for certification or seeking practical skills to break into the field, you'll find the instruction you need, including:

• Designing and drawing an internetwork

• Identifying devices and components

• Configuring wireless components

• Planning for static and dynamic routing

• Setting up hubs, switches, and routers

• Maintaining security with encryption, scans, and more

• Troubleshooting your network

The Street Smarts series is designed to help current or aspiring IT professionals put their certification to work for them. Full of practical, real world scenarios, each book features actual tasks from the field and then offers step-by-step exercises that teach the skills necessary to complete those tasks. And because the exercises are based upon exam objectives from leading technology certifications, each Street Smarts book can be used as a lab manual for certification prep.

A Practical, Task-Based Approach to Exam Prep

If you're preparing for CompTIA's Network+ Exam (N10-005), you'll want to take advantage of all the exercises in this practical lab manual. Covering all phases of network administration and all Network+ Exam objectives, this valuable learning tool features dozens of step-by-step exercises designed to give you real-world, hands-on practice. Get thoroughly prepared for the exam—and a career—with challenging tasks that include:

• Designing and drawing an internetwork

• Identifying devices and components

• Differentiating Ethernet devices

• Planning for static and dynamic routing

• Configuring wireless components

• Implementing Bluetooth

• Simulating T1 CSU/DSUs

• Creating local user and group accounts

• Implementing file-level encryption

• Running antivirus, antispyware, and vulnerability scans

• Using ARP, NETSTAT, Ping, Traceroute, and other utilities

• Displaying computer event logs

Step-by-step exercises teach you hands-on skills

Real-world scenarios put those skills in perspective --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.