Cisco Certified Support Technician CCST Networking 100-150 Official Cert Guide

Chapter 7

Wired Networks

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

• 1. Standards and Concepts

  • 1.3. Differentiate between LAN, WAN, MAN, CAN, PAN, and WLAN.

    Identify and illustrate common physical and logical network topologies.

• 3. Endpoints and Media Types

  • 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, 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz), cellular (licensed), sources of interference

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