Standards and Concepts |
This section of the exam covers topics such as Identifying the fundamental conceptual building blocks of networks. It also covers the TCP/IP model, OSI model, frames, and packets, addressing in addition to differentiating between bandwidth and throughput. More topics include Latency, delay, and speed test vs. Iperf while understanding concepts such as LAN, WAN, MAN, CAN, PAN, and WLAN.
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Addressing and Subset Formats |
The section of the exam covers comparing private addresses and public addresses in addition to classes, NAT concepts, and Identifying IPv4 addresses and subnet formats. It also covers concepts such as subnet concepts, Subnet Calculator, slash notation, and subnet mask; broadcast domain. The section covers identifying IPv6 addresses and prefix formats. |
Endpoints and Media Types |
The section of the exam covers the identification of cables and connectors commonly used in local area networks. It covers topics such as cables such as fiber, copper, twisted pair; Connector types: coax, RJ-45, RJ-11, and fiber connector types. The exam section covers distinguishing between Wi-Fi, cellular, and wired network technologies and understanding fiber; wireless, including 802.11 (unlicensed, 2.4GHz, 5GHz, 6GHz), cellular (licensed), and sources of interference. It also deals with Internet of Things (IoT) devices, computers, mobile devices, IP Phones, printers, and servers. |
Infrastructure |
This section of the exam covers the identification of status lights on a Cisco device when given instruction by an engineer. It covers the use of a network diagram provided by an engineer to attach the appropriate cables. It also covers Patch cables, switches and routers, small topologies, power, and rack layout. The exam section covers how to identify the various ports on network devices. |
Diagnosing Problems |
This section of the exam covers demonstrating effective troubleshooting methodologies and help desk best practices, including ticketing, documentation, and information gathering. Moreover, the section deals with Policies and procedures, accurate and complete documentation, prioritization in addition to performing a packet capture with Wireshark and saving it to a file and running basic diagnostic commands and interpreting the results. Moreover, the exam section covers ping, ipconfig/ifconfig/ip, tracert/traceroute, and nslookup; recognizing how firewalls can influence the result as well as differentiating between different ways to access and collect data about network devices. |
Security |
This section of the exam covers how to describe how firewalls operate to filter traffic. It also deals with the concepts of Firewalls (blocked ports and protocols); rules that deny or permit access and foundational security concepts. The exam covers confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA); authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); Multifactor Authentication (MFA); encryption, certificates, and password complexity; identity stores/databases (Active Directory); threats and vulnerabilities; spam, phishing, malware, and denial of service. |
Official Information |
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/ccst-networking-exam-topics |