Practice the IT Skills Essential for Your Success
- 90+ lab exercises challenge you to solve problems based on realistic case studies
- Lab analysis tests measure your understanding of lab results
- Step-by-step scenarios require you to think critically
- Key term quizzes help build your vocabulary
- Lab solutions are only available to instructors and do not appear inside the book
In this lab manual, you'll practice:
- Building a network with the OSI and TCP/IP models
- Configuring network hardware, topologies, and cabling
- Connecting multiple Ethernet components
- Installing and configuring routers and switches
- Working with TCP/IP applications and network protocols
- Configuring IPv6 routing protocols
- Setting up clients and servers for remote access
- Configuring wireless networks
- Securing networks with firewalls, NAT, port filtering, packet filtering, and other methods
- Implementing virtualization
- Building a SOHO network
- Managing and troubleshooting networks