This book demystifies the amazing architecture and protocols of computers as they communicate over the Internet. While very complex, the Internet operates on a few relatively simple concepts that anyone can understand. Networks and networked applications are embedded in our lives. Understanding how these technologies work is invaluable. This book was written for everyone - no technical knowledge is required! While this book is not specifically about the Network+ or CCNA certifications, it as a way to give students interested in these certifications a starting point.

The Mike Meyers’ Computer Skills series offers students of varying ability and experience a practical working knowledge of baseline IT skills and technologies. This full-color text is filled with real-world case studies, step-by-step tutorials, illustrations with callouts, end-of-chapter questions, challenging lab exercises, and review questions. You'll get full coverage of networking concepts including design and administration of local area networks (LANs).

If a network is not secure, how valuable is it? Introduction to Computer Networks and Cybersecurity takes an integrated approach to networking and cybersecurity, highlighting the interconnections so that you quickly understand the complex design issues in modern networks. This full-color book uses a wealth of examples and illustrations to effective

The only authorized Labs & Study Guide for the Cisco Networking Academy Introduction to Networks v7.0 (ITN) course in the CCNA Routing and Switching curriculum. This book provides an introduction to IT and Networking and is suitable for learners with an interest in IT. Each chapter of this book is divided into a Study Guide section followed by a Lab section. The Study Guide sections offer exercises that help you learn the concepts, configurations, and troubleshooting skills crucial to your success as a CCNA exam candidate. Each chapter is slightly different and includes some or all of the following types of exercises: Vocabulary Matching Exercises Concept Questions Exercises Skill-Building Activities and Scenarios Configuration Scenarios Packet Tracer Exercises Troubleshooting Scenarios The Labs & Activities sections include all the labs and Packet Tracer activities from the online curriculum. If applicable, this section begins with a Command Reference, an exercise where the reader matches commands.

This book gives a broad look at both fundamental networking technology and new areas that support it and use it. It is a concise introduction to the most prominent, recent technological topics in computer networking. Topics include network technology such as wired and wireless networks, enabling technologies such as data centers, software defined networking, cloud and grid computing and applications such as networks on chips, space networking and network security. The accessible writing style and non-mathematical treatment makes this a useful book for the student, network and communications engineer, computer scientist and IT professional.

Your Cisco Networking Academy(R) Course Booklet is designed as a study resource you can easily read, highlight, and review on the go, wherever the Internet is not available or practical: The text is extracted directly, word-for-word, from the online course so you can highlight important points and take notes in the "Your Chapter Notes" section. Headings with the exact page correlations provide a quick reference to the online course for your classroom discussions and exam preparation. An icon system directs you to the online curriculum to take full advantage of the images embedded within the Networking Academy online course interface and reminds you to do the labs, interactive activities, packet tracer activities, watch videos, and take the chapter quizzes. The Course Booklet is a basic, economical, paper-based resource to help you succeed with the Cisco Networking Academy Introduction to Networks v7.0 (ITN) online course.

Are you looking to pass the coveted Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching exam? There are so many study guides to choose from, but most of them only serve to confuse students with unnecessary technical jargon and useless information rather than teach them what they need to know to pass the exam and actually apply what they have learned to the real world of IT. This book will prepare you for the latest Cisco CCNA Routing exams, including: - 200-125 CCNA - Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Accelerated (CCNAX) - 100-105 ICND1 - Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Part 1 (ICND1) - 200-105 ICND2 - Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Part 2 (ICND2) Over 50% of the CCNA exam marks are awarded for completing the notoriously difficult practical lab scenarios, so why are there next to no labs to be found in most CCNA study guides? We've packed over 45 follow-along mini-labs and 32 full labs into this study guide, as well as solutions and configurations you can try at home so that you really learn how to configure and troubleshoot all the important exam topics, including: - Routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF and BGP - IPv6 internetworking - Securing the router and switch with passwords - VLANs and VLAN security - Access lists and Network Address Translation - Backing up important configuration files - Planning and designing a network addressing scheme - Spanning Tree Protocol - Answering any subnetting question within seconds - guaranteed! - Quickly troubleshooting and fixing network faults in the exam and in the real world - Setting up a router and switch from scratch with no previous experience - And much more The book has been broken down into ICND1 topics in the first half and ICND2 topics in the second half so that you can take either the one-exam or two-exam route. In their day jobs the authors work on live enterprise networks for global companies, so let them share their decades of internetworking experience with you. They have packed this study guide with exam tips and real-world advice that you can use on the job to avoid common mistakes made by both junior and experienced network engineers. These mistakes can cost you your job. As well as the labs and mini-labs, the theory has been broken up into easy to manage modules so that you can study at your own pace and really master the technologies. There is more than $400 worth of practice exams, advanced challenge labs, and study videos at the URL below for you to enjoy free of charge and to guarantee your success come exam day. https: //www.howtonetwork.com/ccnasimplified