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CompTIA Network+ Certification

Organizations and IT professionals face new network challenges and complexities as they navigate through increased security concerns, hybrid working environments, and the need for maximum performance and increased productivity. In today’s digital world, it’s more important than ever for organizations to trust that their networks are secure, uninterrupted, and flexible.

The CompTIA Network+ is updated (as of September 2021) to address many of the pressing issues organizations face today with their enterprise networks by validating foundational skills and competencies needed to maintain, deploy and troubleshoot essential networks necessary to support business objectives.

CompTIA Network+ features flexible training options including self-paced learning, live online training, custom training, and labs to advance the career development of IT professionals in network administration.

About the Exam

Updates to Network+ reflect current skills related to network engineers and prepare professionals to work effectively and efficiently, supporting and optimizing today’s network environments. Following are the exam objectives for Network+ N10-008:

• Network architecture appears on the exam for the first time, including more emphasis on software-defined networking, ensuring that candidates understand network integrations and the cutting-edge technologies being used in deployments.
• Emerging wireless standards and technologies are covered to allow businesses flexibility and maximal security when deploying networks.
• Because constant access to both internal networks and SaaS applications drives productivity, network performance monitoring and high availability are covered as separate objectives.
• Network security has been streamlined to focus on the critical aspects of hardening networks against malicious attacks and the secure execution of network deployments to protect against unintended data breaches.