Book description
Network Basics Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the Network Basics course in the Cisco® Networking Academy® CCNA® Routing and Switching curriculum.
Using a top-down OSI model approach, the course introduces the architecture, structure, functions, components, and models of the Internet and computer networks. The principles of IP addressing and fundamentals of Ethernet concepts, media, and operations are introduced to provide a foundation for the curriculum. By the end of the course, you will be able to build simple LANs, perform basic configurations for routers and switches, and implement IP addressing schemes.
The Companion Guide is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere to reinforce the material from the course and organize your time.
The book’s features help you focus on important concepts to succeedin this course:
Chapter Objectives—Review core concepts by answering the focus questions listed at the beginning of each chapter.
Key Terms—Refer to the lists of networking vocabulary introduced and highlighted in context in each chapter.
Glossary—Consult the comprehensive Glossary with more than 250 terms.
Summary of Activities and Labs—Maximize your study time with this complete list of all associated practice exercises at the end of each chapter.
Check Your Understanding—Evaluate your readiness with the end-of chapter questions that match the style of questions you see in the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer.
How To—Look for this icon to study the steps you need to learn to perform certain tasks.
Interactive Activities—Reinforce your understanding of topics with more than 50 different exercises from the online course identified throughout the book with this icon.
Packet Tracer Activities—Explore and visualize networking concepts using Packet Tracer exercises interspersed throughout the chapters.
Hands-on Labs—Work through all 68 course labs and Class Activities that are included in the course and published in the separate Lab Manual.
Table of contents
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- About the Contributing Authors
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Command Syntax Conventions
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Exploring the Network
- Chapter 2. Configuring a Network Operating System
- Chapter 3. Network Protocols and Communications
- Chapter 4. Application Layer
- Chapter 5. Transport Layer
- Chapter 6. Network Layer
- Chapter 7. IP Addressing
- Chapter 8. Subnetting IP Networks
- Chapter 9. Network Access
- Chapter 10. Ethernet
- Chapter 11. It’s a Network
- Appendix A. Answers to the “Check Your Understanding” Questions
- Glossary
- Index
Product information
- Title: Network Basics Companion Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2013
- Publisher(s): Cisco Press
- ISBN: None
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