The N+ Certification is offered by the prestigious Computing Technology Industry Association (Comp TIA) as an avenue of measuring the skills of a network professional. It is believed to be the best entry-level certification for beginners trying to find a foot-hold in a networking career.

London College is offering complete hands-on training in the N+ certification curriculum to students, with an aim of producing competent network administrators, who can work skilfully in real time network environments. The technical skills acquired with this certification will primarily be vendor neutral, so that the holders may be able to work on any OS and any hardware.

The course covers the following topics:
  • Setting up, installing, configuring and troubleshooting all network components.

  • Networking design, models, topologies, Infrared wireless networking and Bluetooth, networking media and connectors, The OSI Model, WAN, Dial up and ISDN and network connectors.

  • Remote access and remote desktop protocols, P2P tunnelling protocol, authentication protocols, Kerberos, Network OS, clients, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS, AppleShare IP etc.

  • Physical and logical security, auditing, firewalls, proxy servers, intranet, extranet.

 

The career choices with this certification include job postings as computer technicians, help desk staff and support service people.