Network Basics Companion Guide

Network Basics Companion Guide

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. About This eBook
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. About the Contributing Authors
  5. Contents at a Glance
  6. Contents
  7. Command Syntax Conventions
  8. Introduction
    1. Who Should Read This Book
    2. Book Features
    3. Lab Manual
    4. Practice and Study Guide
    5. About Packet Tracer Software and Activities
    6. How This Book Is Organized
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (1.0.1.1)
    4. Communicating in a Network-Centric World (1.1)
    5. The Network as a Platform (1.2)
    6. LANs, WANs, and the Internet (1.3)
    7. The Expanding Network (1.4)
    8. Summary (1.5)
    9. Practice
    10. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (2.0.1.1)
    4. IOS Bootcamp (2.1)
    5. Getting Basic (2.2)
    6. Address Schemes (2.3)
    7. Summary (2.4)
    8. Practice
    9. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (3.0.1.1)
    4. Network Protocols and Standards (3.1)
    5. Using Requests for Comments (3.2)
    6. Moving Data in the Network (3.3)
    7. Summary (3.4)
    8. Practice
    9. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (4.0.1.1)
    4. Application Layer Protocols (4.1)
    5. Well-Known Application Layer Protocols and Services (4.2)
    6. Summary (4.3)
    7. Practice
    8. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (5.0.1.1)
    4. Transport Layer Protocols (5.1)
    5. TCP and UDP (5.2)
    6. Summary (5.3)
    7. Practice
    8. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (6.0.1.1)
    4. Network Layer Protocols (6.1)
    5. Routing (6.2)
    6. Routers (6.3)
    7. Configuring a Cisco Router (6.4)
    8. Summary (6.5)
    9. Practice
    10. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (7.0.1.1)
    4. IPv4 Network Addresses (7.1)
    5. IPv6 Network Addresses (7.2)
    6. Connectivity Verification (7.3)
    7. Summary (7.4)
    8. Practice
    9. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (8.0.1.1)
    4. Subnetting an IPv4 Network (8.1)
    5. Addressing Schemes (8.2)
    6. Design Considerations for IPv6 (8.3)
    7. Summary (8.4)
    8. Practice
    9. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (9.0.1.1)
    4. Data Link Layer (9.1)
    5. Media Access Control (9.2)
    6. Physical Layer (9.3)
    7. Network Media (9.4)
    8. Summary (9.5)
    9. Practice
    10. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (10.0.1.1)
    4. Ethernet Protocol (10.1)
    5. Address Resolution Protocol (10.2)
    6. LAN Switches (10.3)
    7. Summary (10.4)
    8. Practice
    9. Check Your Understanding
    1. Objectives
    2. Key Terms
    3. Introduction (11.0.1.1)
    4. Create and Grow (11.1)
    5. Keeping the Network Safe (11.2)
    6. Basic Network Performance (11.3)
    7. Managing IOS Configuration Files (11.4)
    8. Summary (11.5)
    9. Practice
    10. Check Your Understanding
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
    9. Chapter 9
    10. Chapter 10
    11. Chapter 11
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