IT Support and Networking
Hardware, networks
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- Cards
- 91
- Categories
- 13
- Price
- €0.99
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn the vocabulary of IT support: hardware from the power supply up, networking from MAC address to BGP, and a troubleshooting method.
Support work is two skills: knowing what the parts are, and knowing what to do when one of them stops. This deck is both.
91 cards from the power supply to BGP. What a POST beep means before there is a display, why an SSD makes an old machine feel new, which layer a switch works at and which one a router does, what DORA stands for, why most outages that look like the internet are DNS, and the troubleshooting method whose last step everyone skips.
Two proposals, one deck. Hardware and networking split apart produced two thin ones, and nobody troubleshoots a workstation without touching both.
No certification's question bank is reproduced here. The names of those exams belong to their owners; the facts about a subnet mask belong to nobody.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Addressing” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
What you learn
- Hardware from the power supply to thermal throttling
- The OSI layers, and what each device actually does
- Addressing, DHCP, DNS and why they fail the way they do
- Wi-Fi, cabling and the hundred-metre limit
- A troubleshooting method that ends in documentation
The categories
13 categories sort the 91 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Addressing
- Design
- Fundamentals
- Hardware
- Link layer
- Networking
- Operating systems
- Operations
- Routing
- Security
- Storage
- Support
- Transport
What you get
Here are three of the 91 cards you get when you buy the deck.
Question
What does the CPU do?
Answer
Executes instructions. Fetch, decode, execute, write back.
Note
Clock speed and core count are not comparable across architectures; benchmarks are.
Question
What is RAM and what happens when power is lost?
Answer
Volatile working memory. Its contents disappear.
Note
More RAM stops paging to disk; it does not make the processor faster.
Question
What is the difference between an HDD and an SSD?
Answer
A hard disk has spinning platters; a solid state drive has flash memory and no moving parts.
Note
An SSD is far faster at random access, which is what an operating system does most.
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Common questions
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Could I make these cards myself?
Yes, without limit and for free. You can type them, import a file or take over cards from friends. This deck only saves you the work.
How many cards are in IT Support and Networking?
91 cards, sorted into 13 categories.
Do I need a connection to study?
Only to download the deck. After that it lives on your device and you study offline. There is no account, and you sign in nowhere.
Which devices does this run on?
On iPhone and iPad from iOS 26, and on Apple Watch. One purchase covers the family through Family Sharing.
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