Computer Support/Networking/Wireless

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This lesson covers wireless networking.

Objectives and Skills[edit | edit source]

Objectives and skills for the wireless networking portion of A+ certification include:[1]

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[edit | edit source]

  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[edit | edit source]

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

Activities[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]