Course Description
Examine the most common cable types and adapters you'll likely encounter when working with computers and mobile devices, including network, video, multipurpose, peripheral, and hard drive cables.
Learning Objectives
CompTIA A+ 220-1001: Basic Cable Types
- differentiate between Ethernet cable types such as Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, Plenum, and 568A/B
- differentiate between shielded twisted pair and unshielded twisted pair
- describe the benefits of fiber cabling
- list the benefits and limitations of coaxial cable
- list speed and transmission limitations for different network cables
- describe different video cables such as VGA, HDMI, Mini HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI, and DVI-D/DVI-I
- recognize when to use Lightning cables
- recognize when to use Thunderbolt cables
- differentiate between USB, USB-C, USB2.0, USB3.0
- describe serial peripheral cables
- differentiate between SATA, IDE, and SCSI hard drive cables
- differentiate between adapters such as DVI to HDMI, USB to Ethernet, and DVI to VGA
- work with network cables