The objective of this chapter is to provide the reader with an understanding of the following:

1.2 Identify basic procedures for adding removing field replaceable modules for both desktop and portable systems:

• Network Interface Card

4 Identify comment reports, associate cabling, and their connectors:

• Cable types; cable orientation; pin connections
  
  
• RJ-45
  
  
• BNC

6.1 Identify basic networking concepts, including how network works and the ramifications of repairs on the network:

• Installing and configuring network cards
  
  
• Network access
  
  
• Full-duplex, half-duplex
  
  
• Cabling-twisted pair, coaxial, fiber-optic, RS-232
  
  
• Ways to network a PC
  
  
• Physical network topologies
  
  
• Increasing bandwidth
  
  
• Loss of data
  
  
• Network slowdown
  
  
• Infrared
  
  
• Hardware protocols