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…
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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…
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 Three primary authentication components – Radius, IEEE 802.1X & EAP (Extensible Authentication…
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…
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…
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…
Spectrum Analyzer – CWAP#13
Spectrum Analyzer – comprises of 15% syllabus for CWAP-403 exam. You can roughly expect around 9 questions from this section. Spectrum Analyzers range in price from a few hundred $ to thousands. They are not free to use like in the case of Wireshark etc.. I was unable to source spectrum analyzers easily and ended…
CWAP Reference Guide so far… #CWAP12
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…
802.11ac and a bit of 802.11ax #CWAP11
This blog post will be focusing on 802.11ac in particular. We visited the aspects of 802.11n in the last blog post. 802.11ac introduced the VHT (Very High Throughput) along with some core technological advancement like MU-MIMO, 256 QAM addition & support for 80MHz/160MHz channels. One of the key differences also lie in the support of…