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

Chapter 13

Data Centers and Fabrics

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

Chapter 11, “Local Area Networks,” introduced the idea of local area networks (LANs), designed and built for short distances. Chapter 11 used building and home networks as two examples of LANs. Chapter 12, “Wide Area Networks,” introduced wide area networks (WANs). This chapter introduces the third class, or “place,” in modern networks, the data center (DC). As they do with LANs and WANs, engineers often build DCs to support specialized requirements using two or three common topologies.

The chapter begins ...