31 Days Before your Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Networking 100-150 Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the CCST-Networking Certification Exam

Day 19

Cables and Connectors

CCST Networking 100-150 Exam Topic

• 3.1. Identify cables and connectors commonly used in local area networks.

  • Cable types: fiber, copper, twisted pair; Connector types: coax, RJ-45, RJ-11, fiber connector types

• 3.2. Differentiate between Wi-Fi, cellular, and wired network technologies.

  • Copper, including sources of interference; fiber; wireless, including 802.11 (unlicensed, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, 6 GHz), cellular (licensed), sources of interference

Key Topics

For the next two days, we review the media that devices use to physically connect to the network. Today, we focus on cabling and connectors. Tomorrow, we will turn our attention to wireless connections.

Network Media Forms and Standards

Three basic forms ...