About This Course

CompTIA, a not-for-profit trade association, is here to help you get the tech career you deserve with industry-leading certifications, courses, and expert knowledge. Today’s job market demands individuals have demonstrable skills, and the information and activities in this course can help you build your network administration skill set so that you can confidently perform your duties in any entry-level network support technician role.

With CompTIA Network+, you can unlock a diverse range of career paths, from network administration and support to cybersecurity, creating opportunities for advancement and specialization in the rapidly evolving IT industry. CompTIA Network+ is a global IT certification validating candidates have the core skills necessary to establish, maintain, troubleshoot, and secure networks in any environment, regardless of technology and platform.

This course can prepare you for the CompTIA Network+ (Exam N10-009) certification examination and a job role in network administration. It utilizes a learning progression model to help you learn and build skills related to the course objectives and job task requirements. This learning methodology uses a series of steps to contextualize what you’re learning, elaborate on areas where additional instruction is needed, and provide relevance through practice and personalized feedback. You’ll then apply what you learned and demonstrate the skills you’ve gained through a series of lab activities and quizzes.

On course completion, you will be able to do the following:

Deploy and troubleshoot Ethernet networks.
Support IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Configure and troubleshoot routers.
Support network services and applications.
Ensure network security and availability.
Deploy and troubleshoot wireless networks.
Support WAN links and remote access methods.
Support organizational procedures and site security controls.
Summarize cloud and datacenter architecture.

Course Design

This course is designed to optimize knowledge acquisition and skills development related to the learning objectives and associated job task requirements through a learning progression model. The learning progression model follows a series of steps to contextualize, elaborate, and provide relevance through practice and personalized feedback, contextualized application, and demonstrable evidence of skills gained.

Different activities throughout the course will help you practice and develop your skills as well as gauge your understanding of the various topics covered. The course is broken into modules and lessons. After each lesson, there will be a review as well as lab activities to try the skills.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success in this course, you should have basic IT skills comprising nine to 12 months’ experience. CompTIA A+ certification, or the equivalent knowledge, is strongly recommended.