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Just A Glance: Cwna Cwap

The document compares the CWNA and CWAP certification exams. CWNA focuses more on protocols and functionalities at a high level, while CWAP focuses more on troubleshooting and analyzing wireless networks. CWNA is suitable for networking professionals, while CWAP is more for wireless administrators and QA engineers. The exams have been updated, with CWNA-107 including additions like new IEEE standards and troubleshooting, and CWAP-403 including separate sections for protocol and spectrum analysis and more detailed wireless topics.

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Just A Glance: Cwna Cwap

The document compares the CWNA and CWAP certification exams. CWNA focuses more on protocols and functionalities at a high level, while CWAP focuses more on troubleshooting and analyzing wireless networks. CWNA is suitable for networking professionals, while CWAP is more for wireless administrators and QA engineers. The exams have been updated, with CWNA-107 including additions like new IEEE standards and troubleshooting, and CWAP-403 including separate sections for protocol and spectrum analysis and more detailed wireless topics.

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Just a glance

CWNA CWAP
• Detailed coverage on protocols and • Detailed coverage on frames. Brief
brief on functionalities on functionalities and protocols
• Read knowledge and min level of • More into ‘How to debug’ and
experience is fine for passing analyze
• For networking professionals – • For Wireless admins/QA engineers
both wired and wireless
CWNA - Coverage CWAP - Coverage
• RF basics and Mathematics • How to - Protocol analysis and tools used
• Antenna concepts • Spectrum analysis and RF maths (dBm to
• Spread spectrum technologies Watts, dBi, SNR, RSSI, Link budget)
• PHY/MAC • Troubleshoot at OSI level
• DFS, TPC, ISM bands • Frames and IEs
• Station/AP/Controllers • WLAN hardwares
• PS/Scan/Frames • Wired issues – DHCP, DNS, PoE, QoS
• Network Security • Wireless issues – RF, Security, Driver
• Surveys, Network implementation and • Misc – CCA/WMM/CF
deployments
Changes in exam
• CWNA-106  CWNA-107
• Changes & additions:
• CWNA-106 is based on IEEE 802.11 2012 and CWNA-107 is based on IEEE 802.11 2016
• Additions – Naming conventions, 11ad, 11af, 11ah, Mesh
• VoIP, PTT, IoT, Passpoint, RRM, Roaming, Throughput, Delay and troubleshooting

• CWAP-402  CWAP-403
• Changes & additions:
• Segregated Protocol and Spectrum analysis
• Structured and increased contents on PHY and MAC layer functions
• Additions – Medium access, Detailed frame exchanges
• Roam behaviors, Data frame exchanges, TxBF/MUMIMO

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