CWNA:Certified Wireless Network Administrator

Catalogue

IT & Certification

CWNA

CWNP

523 pages

Purchase Price

1-9 manuals: $275 per manual
10+ manuals: $245 per manual

Trainer Material: Instructor's Edition $300 each

Code: CT22-750

Series: IT & Certification

Format: A4

Duration: 5 day(s)

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Outline

The wireless world
Wireless users
Wireless technologies
Wireless LAN applications
Wireless advantages and disadvantages

Wireless LAN devices and standards
WLAN devices
Standards
Wireless organizations and agencies
Types of wireless LANs

How wireless technology works
Radio wave transmission principles
Radio frequency behavior and measurement
Antennas

IEEE 802.11 Physical layer standards
Wireless modulation schemes
Physical layer standards

IEEE 802.11 Media Access Control and Network layer standards
IEEE wireless LAN configurations
MAC layer standards
WLAN Network layer standards

Planning and deploying a wireless LAN
Planning for a wireless network
Designing the wireless LAN
Deploying a wireless network
Providing user support

Conducting a site survey
Site survey tools
Performing a site survey

Wireless LAN security and vulnerabilities
Security principles
Basic IEEE 802.11 security protections
Vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11 security
Other wireless attacks

Implementing wireless LAN security
Wireless security solutions
Transitional security model
Personal security model
Enterprise security model

Managing a wireless LAN
Monitoring the wireless network
Maintaining the wireless network
Establishing a wireless security policy

Network settings and wireless LAN troubleshooting
Wired network settings for wireless connections
Troubleshooting wireless networks

Personal, metropolitan, and wide area wireless networks
Wireless personal area networks
Wireless metropolitan area networks
Wireless wide area networks
The future of wireless networks

Appendix A: Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA) exam objectives
Exam objectives

Appendix B: Setup options for Cisco Aironet access points
Setup options

Appendix C: Cisco access point configuration settings
Configuration settings

Appendix D: Linksys access point configuration settings
Configuration settings

Appendix E: Wireless Web sites
Wireless Web sites

Appendix F: IEEE committees
IEEE committees

After completing this course, students will know how to:

Explain how wireless technology is used every day in education, business, travel, and a variety of industries, and identify the advantages and disadvantages of wireless networks.
List and explain the types of devices that are used in a wireless network, and describe wireless standards organizations and regulatory agencies.
Describe the principles of radio wave transmission, describe how radio frequency works and can be measured, and identify antennas and the role they play in wireless transmissions.
Identify wireless modulation schemes, and identify the Physical layer standards of the IEEE 802.11b/a/g/pre-N networks.
Identify the different types of WLAN configurations, and explain how IEEE 802.11 MAC and Network layers are implemented.
Plan for a WLAN, design and deploy the network, and provide user support.
Explain the process of surveying a site for a WLAN, and identify the tools and procedures used to gather data and perform the survey.
Define wireless security and basic security protections of the IEEE 802.11 standard, identify the vulnerabilities of the IEEE 802.11 standard, and identify types of attacks that are launched against wireless networks.
Identify the three models that should be used for securing a WLAN.
Monitor and maintain a WLAN, and explain the importance of a wireless security policy.
Identify the wired network connection between a wireless network and a wired network, and troubleshoot and solve problems with WLANs.
Identify types of wireless networks besides LANs, and identify trends in the future of wireless networks.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of computers and networks