I’ve tried to condense my notes from the study for CWAP-403 exam. The exam consists of lot of details which need to be learnt if you have not done enough capturing and analyzing 802.11 wireless frames before. CWAP 403 – Start > Introductory blog 802.11 Mac Header explained Key 802.11 Frames Troubleshooting WLAN issues #mindmap…
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CWISA – Cellular Networks #CWSA #IoT #LTE #CWNP
Planning Wireless Solution cover 30% of the exam syllabus. This blog focusses on Cellular Networks (Overview and Understanding) – chapter 6. CWISA exam does not require one to know in and out of cellular wireless networking. It only aims at making one able to make decisions required to select appropriate cellular network when designing and…
Read moreCWSP-206 Exam Feedback
I’d like to provide some tips and tricks to help one achieve the CWNP certification. The CWSP-206 Exam was revised in November 2019 from CWSP-205 with added topics on OWE/WPA3 and SAE and removing some older security concepts around pre-RSNA technologies like WEP. The exam in itself is not as hard compared to CWAP. I’d…
Read moreA Chunk of CWSP! (Work in Progress)
Topics covered below are not in a great deal but should get the important aspects required. The below content cover 45% of the exam syllabus for CWSP-206 which means around 25-27 questions approx. Select and implement appropriate authentication solutions WPA/WPA2-Personal (Pre-Shared Key) WPA/WPA2-Enterprise Three primary authentication components – Radius, IEEE 802.1X & EAP (Extensible Authentication…
Read moreRemote Frame Captures & Application Issues on Wi-Fi
After the deployment of new Extreme Aerohive Wireless solution at an Enterprise office, a number of user complaints were received for applications resetting and disconnecting while working on Wi-Fi. The users did not have this problem while working from other offices or their home. Some of the applications like Teradata SQL Assistant & other applications…
Read moreCWDP Exam!, A pinch of common sense and a lot of experience!
Why CDWP? CWDP is one of the professional level exams along with CWAP and CWSP to qualify towards CWNP qualification. It focusses on Wi-Fi Planning, Defining Requirements, Designing, WLAN validation (also known as Site Survey) and some troubleshooting. Personal Experience I’d like to share my experience with the recently certified CWDP-303 exam. The exam by…
Read moreCWAP, not for the faint-hearted! #CWAP #CWNP
Why CWAP? CWAP is one of the professional exams required to qualify for the title to be CWNP (Certified Wireless Network Professional). This blogpost will particularly focus on the CWAP-403 exam released in late 2018. From my personal experience and many in the wi-fi community have regarded it as the hardest of the professional level…
Read moreConfiguring an Aerohive AP on ExtremeCloud IQ
It has been a while I did a blog post, work has been relatively busier post Covid19 lockdown. Some time ago I did a site survey for my home and found insufficient 5GHz coverage. As we are all aiming to have 5 GHz wherever possible why not start with the home. I had a couple…
Read moreAnalyzing Frame Exchanges – #CWAP #Wireshark
This blog post will focus on certain aspects of Wireshark frames which can be brought to use for analyzing and troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues. I recommend downloading metageek color filters and apply it to your Wireshark for filtering specific frame types with applied colorization. You can read more about applying the color filters here. SSID/BSSID information….
Read moreHT/VHT – #CWAP – Exam specific revision
CWAP-403 covers this topic under the 802.11 Frame Exchanges section. I’ve found this topic a bit hard to grasp. I have attempted to read the CWAP-403 study guide but honestly I could not get closer to fully grasp the topic. Much of the explanation in that book is direct copy/paste from standards documents. There is…
Read moreSpectrum Analysis II – #CWAP #Revision
Exam Specific only as I’ve outlined another post on this topic here 1. Spectrum Analysis – 15% 1.1 Capture RF spectrum data and understand the common views available in spectrum analyzers1.1.1 Install, configure and use spectrum analysis software and hardware Configure Wi-Fi integration Save and export capture data1.1.2 Capture RF spectrum data using handheld, laptop-based…
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