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CompTIA Network+ Certification Study Guide by Mohan Krishnamurthy; Michael Cross; Dustin Fritz   Overview | Details | Customer Reviews | Discussion       Overview CompTIA's Network+ certification is a globally-recognized, vendor neutral exam that has helped over 235,000 IT professionals reach further and higher in their careers. The 2009 Network+ exam (N10-004) is a major update with more focus on security and wireless aspects of networking. Our new study guide has been updated accordingly with focus on network, systems, and WAN security and complete coverage of today's wireless networking standards. As always this companion covers the core Network+ material including basic design principles, management and operation of a network infrastructure, and testing tools. After reading this book not only will you be able to ace the exam but you will be able to maintain, troubleshoot, and install computer networks. New to this edition are: Inte...

Wanted Stick No Bill We have seen Stick No Bills written on private buildings, compounds of government buildings and so many other places. Simply it means don’t put posters. However, how often we see some posters pasted on top of it? What is the government regulation on such actions? The person who pasted the notices, is he liable for punishment by law? What if he is employed by a company that wants to promote their products? Is that company liable to be prosecuted? Well, let’s imagine a scenario when company X wants to put the company Y in trouble, and stick their bills on the walls. Who will monitor who actually mounted these posters? Is it possible to monitor the entire area with CCTV cameras? Well, ummh, possibly, no and hence we are calling for troubles. Now Internet seems to require “Stick No Bills” everywhere. Sophisticated communication mechanism, a place for expressing oneself and a high reach has created a platform for such a measure. You can express yourself on the Interne...

Taking You Closer to Your Home For a change, a lighter article from me. Better way to utilize your Eid holidays. Computing itself is considered to be English. However, a first year electronics engineer graduate can tell you that it’s all about 0s and 1s. However, English has become the default language of computing. But there are several initiatives taken by the language lovers all over the world to move computing from English to their native languages. Now Windows interfaces are available in the language of your choice, increasing the personalization to your mother tongue. Office tools can have non-English interfaces. You can send and receive mails in your language, chat in your language, design websites in your language and send SMS in your language. Search for Microsoft Language Interface Pack (LIP) and it shall take you to the right site. Unicode technology has made it possible to have standardization across the technology. All you need to do is to go to Control Panel, Regional L...

Measuring Yourself in An Organization - The GYRO Way Gyro is a device used for measuring changes in direction. Leaving that aside, GYRO here simply means Green, Yellow, Red and Orange. If Management is Y-Axis, and Employee is X-Axis, what this GYRO graph explains us is the matter for the discussion in this article. As you are aware, every axis has the +, the positive side and -, the negative side. So the Management has positive and negative sides, and so does every Employee. GREEN box covers the coordinates of positive X and Y axes. Management is positive about the Employee and the Employee is positive about the Management. Perfect harmony, ideal and preferred condition to exist. In this scenario, Employee has an opportunity to prove, he or she has proved and the Management is happy about this performance. Employee thinks that Management has given the right opportunity, exposure and compensation. YELLOW box covers the coordinates of negative Y and positive X axes. Management is nega...

Handling Work Pressures Expatriates working in Gulf countries face a challenge in handling work and peer pressures. Lower and middle management professionals working abroad often become victims of such pressures. However, the perception of their relatives back home is “Life is cool abroad”. For example, in a developing country, the head of a family may have to bother about several aspects including electricity, water, income tax, house tax payments, school fees of children, health care of parents and family members, social visits to attend marriages and other functions, participating in festivals and other community gatherings. Apart from the commitment to work, travel to and fro the work place, indirect pressures include traffic jams, pollution and the crowd everywhere. When relatives of these expatriates visit them during summer vacation or other pleasure trips they see a different picture altogether. They get a fantastic feeling as most of the bill payments happen ...

Constructive Criticism Managing people is a challenging task. Often the manager has to ignore personal assumptions and presumptions, hatred towards religion, culture, race and creed, personal ego and various other traits that will reduce the managerial qualities in the manager. A successful manager is the one who focuses on the problem or an issue rather than focusing on the people who are part of the issue. Such a manager continues to have a great relationship with his team mates but can be still a terror at work. When a team member is fired and after the firing he realizes the purpose of the firing and accepts that manager was right in firing him, seems to be an ideal condition right? Well, when the manager’s words do not affect the individual’s ego, his personality, or something said was specific to him, the ideal condition can exist. Constructive criticism is all about identifying the mistakes, flaws in team members and point out to them in such a way that they benefit from your...

Complacency A Killing Attitude Complacency creeps into everybody's life at least once or sometimes more than once. A secured job, adequate salary and a comfortable work place often puts people into such a situation where the learning curve stops. They start enjoying the other facets of life. While it’s very important to have a good personal life we need to ensure that our careers do not take a back seat in this process. Often we find average people sticking to the job. This doesn't mean that company is happy with their performance or they couldn't find an alternative. It’s often because recruitment is a painful, time consuming and expensive process. In Gulf countries to get a visa, driving license and ready-to-market time itself is 6 months for every employee. Companies often ignore the lack of performance and give additional time for their employees to avoid another recruitment process. This may often send wrong signals to employees. They may assume that company is happy...

Compartmentalization Theory I meet several people during my office hours, colleagues, customers and vendors. I meet several friends and their family members after working hours. I notice people go through several emotions and I can visibly see the tension, pressure, insecurity, panic and over sensitivity to the issues around them. People who go through various troubles in life often resort to heavy smoking, drinking or become dependent on anti-depressant drugs. Also many take help from Psychiatrists to come out of their mental tensions. Many simply cry whenever they find time, end-up in getting headaches. Being a cheerful person I am often encountered by these questions, “Hey, you don't have any problems at all in your life?”, “You don't have any work today?”, “How do you look always relaxed?”, “How you are able to smile and crack jokes even during difficult times?” and I simply return a smile to them and start explaining a theory. It is the “Compartmentaliz...

Building Your Second Line It’s essential for you to build your second and third line in your line of operations within your organization. It ensures a strong organization. There are other benefits too: · When you go on vacation, you know you have your right man doing the job. · When you are on an overseas trip or for training abroad, you know your project is in safe hands. · When you are sick and you need a leave very badly, still you need somebody to do your job without compromising the quality. · And finally when you leave your job, you know that the job is safely handed over to your successor. Last one may not sound that positive to you. But imagine a situation where you are joining a company and your predecessor has left the state of affairs in a mess. You don’t know the status of the project you are going to handle, no documentation, no passwords and no clear way ahead. It’s very essential also to maintain a great relationship with your ex-companie...