Network Troubleshooting

As an aspiring network professional, designing and implementing networks is an amazing experience. However, understanding how to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues makes a better network professional within the industry. While network implementation and operations are important, network troubleshooting is equally important. Being excellent at network troubleshooting allows a network professional to validate their understanding of the technology to determine the true probable cause of issues by using their knowledge from learning about networking, their wisdom, and skills from experiences to resolve the issues and implement preventative controls. While troubleshooting is a problem-solving skill within the field of networking, it takes some time to develop and improve upon each time a new issue occurs.

In this chapter, you will explore network troubleshooting methodology and approaches used by network professionals within the industry to identify and...