IT Professional Curricula     Internet and Network Technologies Solution Area     CompTIA Network+     CompTIA Network+ N10-008

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All computers and network devices require an IP address to be able to connect to the Internet or other IP devices on an organizational network. In this course, you'll learn about the fundamentals of both DHCP and DNS and how DHCP can help automate the configuration of devices on an IP network. You’ll explore start of authority records as well as the various DNS record types used to handle requests and translate domain names into IP addresses. You’ll then review key characteristics of both the Network Time Protocol and IP Address Management.
Next, you’ll examine basic corporate and data center architectures, and common architectures such as three-tiered, spine and leaf. You'll learn key characteristics of software-defined networking and explore the storage area network and common connections types that include fiber channel, fiber channel over Ethernet, Internet small computer, and Systems Interface. Lastly, you’ll learn about colocations and the benefits and solutions these data centers can offer.
This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the N10-008: CompTIA Network+ certification exam.

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Objectives

CompTIA Network+ N10-008: Network Services & Data Center Architectures discover the key concepts covered in this course describe the purpose and function of DNS differentiate between internal and external DNS and recognize the structure of DNS namespaces outline the purpose and characteristics of the authoritative server of a DNS zone recognize when to use various types of DNS records, including A, SRV, and CNAME outline key components of a DNS hierarchy including root DNS servers, zone transfers, time to live (TTL), DNS caching, reverse DNS, recursive lookups, and authoritative name servers describe the purpose and characteristics of the DHCP service including its scope, exclusion ranges, reservations, dynamic assignment, lease time, scope options, available addresses, DHCP relay, and IP helpers outline the purpose and features of NTP outline the purpose and features of IPAM describe the characteristics of three-tier data center networks describe the software-defined networking (SDN) approach describe storage area networks (SAN) and outline the related connection types including fiber channel, fiber channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) differentiate between north-south and east-west traffic flows describe the spine and leaf architecture and list benefits over traditional network architectures outline the purpose and key characteristics of colocation data centers summarize the key concepts covered in this course