Computer Support/Networking/Wireless

This lesson covers wireless networking.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the wireless networking portion of A+ certification include:

Compare and contrast various WiFi networking standards and encryption types.

• Standards
  • 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
  • Speeds, distances and frequencies
• Encryption types
  • WEP, WPA, WPA2, TKIP, AES

Readings

1. Wikipedia: IEEE 802.11
2. Wikipedia: Wired Equivalent Privacy
3. Wikipedia: Wi-Fi Protected Access
4. Wikipedia: Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
5. Wikipedia: Advanced Encryption Standard

Multimedia

1. YouTube: AWireless Standards - CompTIA A+ 220-901 - 2.5
2. YouTube: Wireless Encryption - CompTIA A+ 220-901 - 2.5