Day 1  Take pre-assessment

 Unit 1: Welcome to Network and Security Foundations

 Unit 2: Introduction to Networking Concepts
o Module 1: TCP/IP and OSI
o Module 2: Network Media and Devices
 Unit 2 : Introduction to Networking Concepts (continued)
o Module 3: Basic Network Commands
o Module 4: Network Types
o Module 5: Network Topologies
o Module 6: Network Architectures
o Module 7: Fundamentals of Virtual and Cloud Computing
 Unit 3: Introduction to Network Security
o Module 8: Network Security Overview
o Module 9: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) Triad
 Unit 4: Network Security Operations
o Module 10: Firewalls, IDS, and IPS
o Module 11: OSI and TCP/IP Security
 Unit 4: Network Security Operations (cont)
o Module 12: Encryption Fundamentals
o Module 13: Cloud Security
o Module 14: Wireless Security 
o Module 15: User Authentication and Access Control
o Module 16: Network Device Hardening
 Review and prepare for objective assessment
 Complete objective assessment

Wired Ethernet

802.3i 1990  10BASE-T: 10 Mbps over UTP

802.3j 1993  Added fiber-optic cable options

802.3u 1995  Added 100 Mbps speed, also known as Fast Ethernet
 Added auto-negotiation of speed (10 Mbps or 100 Mbps)

802.3x 1997  Full-duplex (bi-directional communication at the same time—a node

could both send and receive traffic instead of one or the other,
similar to the difference between a phone and a walkie-talkie)

802.3z 1998  1000BASE-X: 1 Gbps over fiber-optic cables

802.3ab 1999  1000BASE-T: 1 Gbps over UTP

 802.3ae 2002  10GBASE-X: 10 Gbps over fiber-optic cables

802.3af 2003  Power over Ethernet (PoE), the ability to power a low-power device,
15 watts or less, without plugging it into an electrical outlet, reducing
cabling

802.3ak 2004  Added support for twinaxial cables, a type of coax with two wires in
the cable instead of one; used in short connections (typically just a
few meters, such as within a rack) as an inexpensive alternative to
fiber-optic cabling

802.3an 2006  10GBASE-T: 10 Gbps over UTP

802.3b 2015  40 and 100 Gbps over fiber-optic cables

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802.3by 2016  25 Gbps over fiber-optic and twinaxial cables

802.3bs 2017  200 Gbps and 400 Gbps over fiber-optic cables

802.3bt 2018  Update to power over Ethernet (PoE) to support up to 100W devices

Wireless Standards

802.11 1997  Provides 1 or 2 Mbps transmission in the 2.4 GHz band

 Uses frequency-hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) (the signal hops
between random frequencies to reach the destination)
 Can also use direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) (data is
divided into smaller pieces before being sent with a higher
bitrate)

802.11a 1999  Provides up to 54 Mbps in the 5 GHz band

802.11b 2000  Provides 11 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz band

 Uses only direct-sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)

802.11g 2003  Used for transmission over short distances

 Speeds up to 54 Mbps in the 2.4 GHz bands

802.11n 2007  Adds multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) (uses multiple

signals on different frequencies to increase the range and
bandwidth of wireless networks and forms directed beams
toward each client, reducing the interference from other wireless
devices nearby)
 4–5 times faster than 802.11g
802.11ac 2013  Delivers data rates of 433 Mbps per signal or 1.3 Gbps in a three-
signal design

802.11ah 2017  The first Wi-Fi specification to operate in frequency bands below
1 GHz (900 MHz)
 Nearly twice the range of other Wi-Fi technologies
 Can penetrate walls and other barriers better than previous Wi-Fi
standards
 Much lower bandwidth (< 9 Mbps)
 Designed for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and similar use cases
with limited bandwidth needs over larger distances

802.11ax 2019  Update to 802.11ac

 Rebranded to Wi-Fi 6
 Adds support for 6 GHz frequency range
 Support for approximately 1–10 Gbps