Certified Wireless Design Professional (CWDP)

For those who are skilled at analyzing and troubleshooting today’s wireless LANs, the
Certified Wireless Analysis Professional (CWAP) certification offers an opportunity to
leap forward in your career. Do you have a mastery of operation and frame exchanges?
Can you perform protocol and spectrum analyses? Are MAC layer frame formats right
in your wheelhouse?
Measure your skills and knowledge with this professional-level certification and get
on track toward ultimately earning your Certified Wireless Network Expert (CWNE)
certification. Those who pass the CWAP exam earn credit toward a CWNE certification.

Delivery Options

Please contact NCTI Customer Care for delivery options and/or available dates, locations and times. You must provide your own laptop.

Completion Time

The estimated completion time for this course is three days.

Recommended Prerequisite

Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA)

Additional Course Information

Objectives

Upon completing this course, students will be able to:

understand design strategies
describe best practices for network planning
explain the available technologies to satisfy 802.11n and 802.11ac design requirements
describe advanced site surveying
understand design troubleshooting methodologies

Outline

Introducing WLAN Design

Wireless LAN (WLAN) design, importance of design and design processes

Requirements Analysis

Understanding WLAN requirements, documentation and procedures, understanding client device population, discover planned WLAN applications, defining WLAN security requirements, physical coverage requirements for various vertical markets, outdoor WLAN bridge link requirements, existing WLAN upgrade path, WLAN test considerations and design documentation for WLANs

Site Survey Procedures

Understanding the WLAN site survey, WLAN site survey types, spectrum analysis for WLAN site survey, WLAN site survey tools, understanding metrics and the gathered RF information, scenario-specific requirements, understanding the different site survey methodologies used and outdoor site survey procedures

Enterprise WLAN Design

RF planning and management, interference considerations, WLAN channel planning and RF considerations, dynamic frequency selection (DFS) and transmit power control (TPC), access point selection and operation modes, antenna considerations, power over Ethernet (PoE) design concepts and WLAN security design considerations

Advanced WLAN Design

Branch and remote office WLAN design, WLAN design and mesh connectivity, WLAN quality of service (QOS), performance and optimization for WLANs, WLAN security considerations, WLAN deployment scenarios, identify various WLAN requirements and planning and testing tools

WLAN Deployment

WLAN infrastructure device configuration and deployment, configuration of networking services – DHCP and DNS, autonomous, controller and cloud WLAN

Design Validation

Post deployment survey, WLAN design validation, post deployment analysis, tools used for post deployment and post WLAN deployment troubleshooting

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