Design/Troubleshoot Wireless only office
This blog post presents the CWNE Essay # 3, it describes the customer requirements and the challenges encountered when designing an office that relies on Wi-Fi for almost all its operations.
802.1X Authentication & RFGuns Troubleshooting
This blog post will present essay # 2 which I wrote to meet the CWNE application requirements. This essay captures the learning aspects from CWSP and CWAP exams which help me deal with the issue at a large distribution centre of a retail company in New Zealand.
WiFi Troubleshooting & Health Check
This blog post will present CWNE Essay # 1 which describes one of the projects I’ve done recently to improve Wi-Fi at a retail stores chain outlet in New Zealand.
CWSA/CWISA Exam Feedback
This blogpost is dedicated to provide feedback for the CWISA-101 used to be known as CWSA before. Exam Objectives Let’s begin by looking at the objectives of the exam. Surely you’d see that there is some overlap of the topics such as Radio Frequency Planning, Wireless Technologies and Implementing Wireless Solutions with CWNA exam. If you are like one of […]
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 maintaining wireless networks. So this […]
CWSP-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 still suggest guys to take […]
A 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 WPA3-SAE and 192-Bit enterprise security 802.1X/EAP EAP methods EAP-TLS EAP-TTLS PEAP EAP-FAST EAP-SIM EAP-GTC Developer IEEE […]
CWDP 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 itself is not difficult when […]
CWAP, 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 certification exams. It is also […]
Spectrum 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 and infrastructure spectrum capture solutions1.1.3 […]
