Skills Measured

Skills Being MeasuredThis exam measures your ability to accomplish the technical tasks listed below.The percentages indicate the relative weight of each major topic area on the exam.
Understanding Network Infrastructures

• Understand the concepts of Internet, intranet, and extranet.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: VPN, security zones, firewalls.
• Understand local area networks (LANs).
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: perimeter networks; addressing; reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback ip), VLANs; wired LAN and wireless LAN
• Understand wide area networks (WANs).
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: leased lines, dial-up, ISDN, VPN, T1, T3, E1, E3, DSL, Cable, , etc. and their characteristics (speed, availability). Item idea: Map T1, etc to a LAN or WAN
• Understand wireless networking.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: Types of wireless networking standards and their characteristics (802.11A,B,G,N including different Ghz ranges), types of network security (WPA/WEP/802.1X etc.), point-to-point (P2P) wireless, wireless bridging
• Understand network topologies and access methods.

Understanding Network Hardware

• Understand switches.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: transmission speed; number and type of ports; number of uplinks; speed of uplinks; managed or unmanaged switches; VLAN capabilities; Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches,, security options; hardware redundancy; support; backplane speed; switching types, mac table;understanding capabilities of hubs vs. switches
• Understand routers.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: transmission speed considerations, directly connected routes, static routing, dynamic routing (routing protocols), default routes; routing table and how it selects best route(s); routing table memory, NAT, software routing in Windows Server
• Understand media types.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: cable types and their characteristics, including media segment length and speed; fibre optic; twisted pair shielded or nonshielded; catxx cabling, wireless; ; susceptibility to external interference (machinery, power cables, etc); susceptibility to electricity (lightning), susceptibility to interception,.

Understanding Protocols and Services

• Understand the OSI model.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: OSI model; TCP model; examples of devices, protocols, applications and which OSI/TCP layer they belong to; TCP and UDP; well-known ports for most used purposes (not necessarily Internet); packets and frames
• Understand IPv4.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: subnetting; IPconfig; why use IPv6; addressing; ipv4toipv6 tunneling protocols to ensure backwards compatibility; dual ip stack; subnetmask; gateway; ports; packets; reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback ip)
• Understand IPv6.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: subnetting; IPconfig; why use IPv6; addressing; ipv4toipv6 tunneling protocols to ensure backwards compatibility; dual ip stack; subnetmask; gateway; ports; packets; reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback ip)
• Understand names resolution.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: DNS, WINS, steps in the name resolution process
• Understand networking services.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: DHCP, remote access
• Understand TCP/IP.
  • This objective may include but is not limited to: tools, such as ping; tracert; pathping; Telnet; IPconfig; netstat, reserved address ranges for local use (including local loopback ip); protocols

Networking Fundamentals