Product Description

All-in-One is All You Need

Get complete coverage of all the material included on the latest release of the CompTIA Network+ exam inside this fully updated, comprehensive resource. Written by CompTIA certification and training expert Mike Meyers, this authoritative exam guide features learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, exam tips, practice questions, and in-depth explanations. Designed to help you pass the CompTIA Network+ exam with ease, this definitive volume also serves as an essential on-the-job reference.

Covers all exam topics, including how to:

• Build a network with the OSI seven-layer model
• Configure network hardware, topologies, and cabling
• Connect multiple Ethernet components
• Configure wireless networks
• Work with network protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SIP, and IMAP
• Configure IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols
• Share and access network resources
• Interconnect network operating systems-Windows, Mac OS, UNIX/Linux
• Set up clients and servers for remote access
• Monitor and troubleshoot networks
• Secure networks with firewalls, packet filtering, encryption, authentication, and other methods

The CD-ROM features

• Hundreds of practice questions
• Video introduction to CompTIA Network+
• A collection of Mike's favorite shareware and freeware networking tools and utilities
• Complete electronic book

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15533 in Books
• Published on: 2009-05-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 704 pages

About the Author

Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, MCP, is the bestselling author of six editions of CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide and several other computer books. He is the president and founder of Total Seminars, LLC, a major provider of PC and network repair seminars for thousands of organizations throughout the world, and a member of CompTIA.

Customer Reviews

Read This Book First
OK, I read some sections and skimmed other sections in the Exam guide (Fourth Edition). It is the best of the three latest Network+ guide books that I've read. I wished it was my first. It is well-rounded in emphasis, introducing the subject material in an easy-to-grasp way. There seemed to be enough Mac/Linux info. I liked the well descriptive illustrations. I also liked that the material was not introduced before its time, but was described enough at the right time. This book doesn't have any bullet points at the end of the chapters. Though other exam guides are better to cram with, this guide makes a better introduction.

Of the big three Network+ exam guides out there, this is the best and most reliable. I found very few typos (4), and only three areas of conficting detail info. The good news is that none of the questions/answers in the book or in the one practice exam (50 questions) were found to be wrong (and I did all of them). I would recommend this book over the other 2 that I read.

Very useful.
Purchased this item, read through and studied from it for two weeks, and took the exam. Passed with an 885. I did have prior networking experience, but you are supposed to when you pursue the Network+. If you have any working knowledge of networking, this book is all you need to pass the exam.

I passed the test
First let me say I passed the test handily with this book being my primary resource so it served its purpose although I have had experience configuring and managing LAN/WAN's. I do have some suggestions for improvements:

The included CD is geared to Windows users. I could open the PDF image files of the book, but the utilities were useless and, more importantly, the practice tests nowhere to be found.

The network diagrams in the book use non-standard and inconsistent symbols even though the author recommends using the standard CISCO symbols in the section on diagramming your network under network management.

Chapter sections and subsections typically use the same size and weight font so it can be difficult to determine if a topic is subservient to a previous topic.