Networking Fundamentals: Develop the networking skills required to pass the Microsoft MTA Networking Fundamentals Exam 98-366

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Network Infrastructure
Chapter 1: Differentiating between Internets, Intranets, and Extranets
	Technical requirements
	Understanding a network
		Understanding internet
		Understanding intranets
		Understanding the extranets
	Introduction to basic security features
		Firewalls
		DMZ
		VPNs
	Microsoft security zones
		Internet
		Local intranet zone
		Trusted sites
		Restricted sites
		Local machine zone
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 2: Understanding Local Area Networks
	Technical requirements
	Scales of networks
	Introduction to LANs
	Local addressing
		Hostnames
		IP addresses
		MAC addresses
	Wired and wireless LANs
		Considerations
		Network models
			Peer-to-peer networks
			Client-server networks
		Wired networks
			LANs using a hub
			LANs using a bridge
			LANs using switches
		Wireless networks
	Virtual LANs
	Metropolitan area networks
	Campus area networks
	Personal Area Networks
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 3: Understanding Wide Area Networks
	Technical requirements
	Introducing WANs
	Setting up a broadband connection
		Setting up a broadband connection
		Configuring connection properties
		Circuit switching
		Packet switching
			X.25 packet switching
			Frame relay
	Leased lines
	Dial-up connectivity
	Understanding carrier standards
		Integrated Services Digital Network
		Asynchronous Transfer Mode
		Digital Subscriber Line
		Synchronous Optical Network
		T-carriers
		Broadband cable
		Fiber to the X
		Satellite
		Cellular
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 4: Understanding Wireless Networking
	Technical requirements
	Understanding wireless standards
		CSMA/CA
		Radio waves
		Frequency
		Modulation
		IEEE 802.11a
		IEEE 802.11b
		IEEE 802.11g
		IEEE 802.11n
		IEEE 802.11ac
		Summarizing the standards
	Implementing wireless topologies
		Ad hoc mode
		Infrastructure mode
			Point-to-point wireless including wireless bridge
			Wireless Distribution System
	Understanding wireless security
		Encryption
			Wired Equivalent Privacy
			Wireless Protected Access
			WPA2
			WPA3
		Other wireless security techniques
			Disabling SSID broadcast
			MAC filtering
			Disabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup
			Reducing transmission power
			Changing defaults
			Network segmentation
			Faraday cage
			Scanning for rogue access points
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Network Topologies - Mapping It All Out
	Logical versus physical topology
	Bus topology
		Advantages
		Disadvantages
	Ring topology
		Advantages
		Disadvantages
	Star topology
		Advantages
		Disadvantages
		Token ring
	Mesh topology
		Advantages
		Disadvantages
	Hybrid topology
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 2: Network Hardware
Chapter 6: Switches and Switching - Forwarding Traffic on a Local Network
	Technical requirements
	The purpose of switches and switching
	Understanding frame forwarding
		Methods of frame forwarding 
			Cut-through switching
			Store and forward
		Frame forwarding process
		Spanning Tree Protocol
	Understanding switch characteristics
		Managed and unmanaged switches
		Connectivity to the network
		Ports
		Layer 3 switches and VLANs
		Security
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Routers and Routing - Beyond a Single Network
	Technical requirements
	Making routing decisions
		Windows OS routing table
		Routers
		Decision making
		TTL
	Understanding static and default routes
	Understanding routing protocols
		Routing devices
		Distance vector protocols
		Link state protocols
		Hybrid protocols
		Path vector protocol
		IGP versus EGP
	Implementing routing using Windows Server
		Installing roles and features
		Configuring the routing and remote access component
		Configuring a static IPv4 route
	Understanding NAT
		Static NAT
		Dynamic NAT
		Port Address Translation
	Understanding QoS
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Media Types - Connecting Everything Together
	Technical requirements
	Understanding coaxial cables and their types
		10base5 coaxial cable
		10base2 coaxial cable
	Understanding twisted pair cables and their types
		Unshielded twisted pair
		STP
		Screened twisted pair
		Understanding the plenum coating
		Power over Ethernet
		Following wiring standards
			Straight-through cable
			Crossover cable
			Rollover cable
	Understanding fiber optic cables and their types
		SMF
		MMF
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 3: Protocols and Services
Chapter 9: Understanding the OSI Model
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the purpose of network models
		Layer 7 – the application layer
		Layer 6 – the presentation layer
		Layer 5 – the session layer
		Layer 4 – the transport layer
			Logical ports
			TCP
			UDP
		Layer 3 – the network layer
		Layer 2 – the data-link layer
		Layer 1 – the physical layer
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Understanding TCP/IP
	Technical requirements
	Overview of the TCP/IP layers
	Understanding the application layer
		User protocols
			Telnet
			FTP
			Trivial FTP
			Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
		Support services
			Host initialization  
			Remote management
			Domain Name System
	Understanding the transport layer
	Understanding the internet layer
	Understanding the network layer
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Understanding IPv4
	Technical requirements
	Overview of IPv4 
		Structure of an IPv4 address
		Need for unique IP addresses
		Binary math
	Understanding classful networks
	Understanding subnet masks
		Classful/default subnet masks
		Identifying network elements using binary
	Understanding CIDR
		Identifying a network address using CIDR
	Assigning IP addresses to hosts
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 12: Understanding IPv6
	Technical requirements
	Overview of IPv6
		Hexadecimal numbering
			Converting hexadecimal into binary
		The format of an IPv6 address
			Dropping leading zeroes
			Dropping contiguous zeroes once
		Subnets and prefixes
		Transmission types
	Understanding address types
		Global unicast address
		Link-local addresses
		Unique local addresses
		Multicast addresses
		Loopback address
	Assigning IPv6 addresses
		Manual configuration
		Stateless Address Auto-Configuration (SLAAC)
		Stateful configuration using DHCPv6
		ICMPv6
	Understanding interoperability with IPv4
		Dual stack
		Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol
		6to4
		Teredo tunneling
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Understanding Name Resolution
	Technical requirements
	Exploring DNS
		FQDN
			Host
			Domain
			Top-level domain (TLD)
			Root domain
			Hierarchical view
		DNS records
			Configuring client DNS settings
			Registering a DNS from the command line
			DNS record types
			Manually creating a DNS record
		Performing DNS queries
			Iterative DNS queries
			Recursive DNS queries
			Example DNS query
		nslookup
			Non-interactive mode
			Interactive mode
	The hosts file
	WINS
		Registering a client's IP address in DNS
		WINS query
		LMHOSTS
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 14: Network Services
	Technical requirements
	DHCP
		Configuring a DHCP server
		DHCP exclusions
		DHCP leases
		DHCP reservations
	Firewalls
		Packet-filtering firewalls
		Circuit-level gateways
		Application-level gateways
	Proxy servers
		Whitelisting and blacklisting
	Remote desktop
	FTP
		Active FTP
		Passive FTP
	File server
		Share permissions
		NTFS permissions
		Combining share and NTFS permissions
	Print server
	Domain controllers
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 4: Mock Exams
Chapter 15: Mock Exam 1
Chapter 16: Mock Exam 2
Assessments
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Index