I. Overview:

CompTIA Network+ is the premier certification for validating your knowledge of essential networking tools and concepts. You will be assessed on your abilities in network connectivity, documentation, service configuration, data centers, cloud, virtual networking, monitoring, troubleshooting, and security hardening. This certification prepares you for jobs in technical support, network operation, and system administration.

II. Duration: 48 hours (6 days)

III. Objectives:

• Deploy wired and wireless devices, covering IP addressing, ports, protocols, and network architecture for network deployment.
• Understand documentation, life-cycle, change, and configuration management processes and procedures.
• Grasp virtualization, cloud service models, elasticity, and scalability to apply cloud concepts.
• Monitor networks for high availability and resolve connectivity issues to maintain network performance.
• Establish secure networks and mitigate vulnerabilities to strengthen security.
• Diagnose and resolve network issues using appropriate tools for effective troubleshooting.

IV. Intended Audience:

• Technical support specialist
• Network operations specialist
• System administrator

V. Prerequisites:

• Recommended experience: CompTIA A+ certification, with 9 to 12 months of hands-on experience in a junior network administrator or network support technician role.

VI. Course outlines:

1. Networking Concepts

• Explain concepts related to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model.
• Compare and contrast networking appliances, applications, and functions.
• Summarize cloud concepts and connectivity options.
• Explain common networking ports, protocols, services, and traffic types.
• Compare and contrast transmission media and transceivers.
• Compare and contrast network topologies, architectures, and types.
• Given a scenario, use appropriate IPv4 network addressing.
• Summarize evolving use cases for modern network environments.

2. Network Implementation

• Explain characteristics of routing technologies.
• Given a scenario, configure switching technologies and features.
• Given a scenario, select and configure wireless devices and technologies.
• Explain important factors of physical installations.

3. Network Operations

• Explain the purpose of organizational processes and procedures.
• Given a scenario, use network monitoring technologies
• Explain disaster recovery (DR) concepts.
• Given a scenario, implement IPv4 and IPv6 network services.
• Compare and contrast network access and management methods.

4. Network Security

• Explain the importance of basic network security concepts.
• Summarize various types of attacks and their impact to the network.
• Given a scenario, apply network security features, defense techniques, and solutions.

5. Network Troubleshooting

• Explain the troubleshooting methodology.
• Given a scenario, troubleshoot common cabling and physical interface issues.
• Given a scenario, troubleshoot common issues with network services.
• Given a scenario, troubleshoot common performance issues.
• Given a scenario, use the appropriate tool or protocol to solve networking issues.