CompTIA Network+ certifies essential skills for setting up, maintaining, troubleshooting, and securing networks, preparing students for careers in networking and cybersecurity, and for the N10-009 exam.
The high level objectives are:
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.
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.
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.
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, defence techniques, and solutions.
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