CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module: Examining Best Practices for Network Administration Part 5
10. 16.9 Disaster Recovery Disaster recovery refers to the ability to have a network and a group of servers up and operational. If some sort of a disaster occurs, maybe there’s an earthquake and it destroys an enterprise’s data center, or maybe there’s some sort of a fire or flooding. How do we restore when… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module: Examining Best Practices for Network Administration Part 4
7. 16.6 High Availability One of the main goals of a network design is for that network to be up. We want there to be very high uptime. A lot of companies will suffer financially in a potentially massive way if the network is down for an extended period of time. The gold standard for… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module: Examining Best Practices for Network Administration Part 3
5. 16.4 Rack Management Usually in a data center or equipment room. We have servers and routers and switches mounted in racks. And in this video, we want to talk about some of the different rack options that we might have. We want to talk about how we can arrange the racks for proper ventilation.… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module: Examining Best Practices for Network Administration Part 2
3. 16.2 Wiring Management In this video, let’s talk about some best practices surrounding wiring management. First, let’s define a couple of terms. We have intermediate distribution frames or IDFs, and they might be scattered around a large building. We might call these a wiring closet. It might be some equipment room where there’s a… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module: Examining Best Practices for Network Administration
1. 16.0 Examining Best Practices for Network Administration In order to maximize our network’s uptime, in order to keep people safe and to scale our network, we need a collection of policies and procedures that everybody is following. And that’s what we’re going to be focusing on. In this module, we’re going to consider safety… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module 18: Preparing for the CompTIA Network+ Exam
1. 18.0 Preparing for the CompTIA Network+ Exam If you took this course with the intention of earning your CompTIA network plus certification, then this module is for you, because you’re going to learn in this module how to get registered for the exam. We’ll take a look at some study strategies to get you… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module 17 – Troubleshooting Networks Part 5
9. 17.8 Common Network Service Issues In this video, we want to talk about some common network service issues, and we might run into some of these as we’re doing our day to day troubleshooting. One thing I’ve seen a lot of is an issue with name resolution. Maybe the DNS server that you’re using… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module 17 – Troubleshooting Networks Part 4
6. 17.5 Environmental Metrics and Sensors If we have an equipment room, such as a data center, the equipment in that room can be very sensitive to fluctuations in environmental conditions. These might include temperature, humidity, power fluctuations, or a power outage, or maybe water if we have flooding. And in this short video, I… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module 17 – Troubleshooting Networks Part 3
4. 17.3 Network Appliance Commands In this video, let’s take a look at some commands we can use to verify and troubleshoot a network appliance and CompTIA on their network plus exam. Blueprint is not specific about which network appliance we should be working with. If you take a look at the criteria listed in… Read More »
CompTIA Network+ N10-008 – Module 17 – Troubleshooting Networks Part 2
3. 17.2 CLI Troubleshooting Utilities In this video we’re going to take a look at some command line interface or CLI commands we can use as administrators to manage our network. We might do troubleshooting, we might do verification and we’re going to be in a couple of different operating systems. We’re going to be… Read More »
