CWNA Wireless LAN Administration + CertBlaster Study Guide

1-4239-1797-9 © 2007 Publish date: April 25, 2006 522 pages

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Course ID: cwna-wireless-lan-admin-sg

Are you preparing for the Certified Wireless Network Administration exam? Consider adding the CWNA Wireless LAN Administration study guide to your exam-prep toolbox. This affordable course is from our line of computer training books designed for self-directed study.

The CWNA Wireless LAN Administration courseware as earned a distinguished 4.9/5.0 rating in overall quality from Procert Labs. It is designed to prepare you for the current CWNA exam covering topics such as radio technologies, antenna concepts, wireless LAN hardware and software, and network design, network installation, and network management. It also teaches you about wireless standards and organizations, the 802.11 network architecture, wireless LAN security, troubleshooting techniques for WLANs, and conducting site surveys.

This book comes complete with twelve full units and five appendixes covering the topics you need to master for the exam. You can prepare by following the CWNA Wireless LAN Administration courseware at a pace that makes sense for you. Take as much time as you need to fully understand the concepts presented before moving on to the next unit. You may breeze through one unit because you know the subject well and then take more time tackling a more difficult concept. Because you set the pace, you are completely in charge of your learning and can focus on the areas where you need the most assistance.

Hands-on activities reinforce the material and allow you to further explore various concepts.

Course Contents

Unit 1 introduces the wireless world

• Wireless users
• Wireless technologies
• Wireless LAN applications
• Wireless pros and cons

Unit 2 discusses Wireless LAN devices and standards

• Wireless LAN devices
• WLAN Standards
• Wireless organizations and agencies
• Types of WLANs

Unit 3 goes over how wireless technology works

• Principles of radio wave transmissions
• Radio frequency behaviors and measurements
• Antennas

Unit 4 discusses IEEE 802.11 and Physical layer standards

• Wireless modulation schemes
• Physical layer standards

Unit 5 covers IEEE 802.11 Media Access Control (MAC) and Network layer standards

• IEEE wireless LAN configurations
• MAC layer standards
• WLAN Network layer standards

Unit 6 discusses planning and deploying WLANs

• Planning a wireless network
• Designing the Wireless LAN
• Deploying wireless networks
• Providing user support

Unit 7 covers site surveys

• Site survey tools
• Conducting a site survey

Unit 8 goes over WLAN security and vulnerabilities

• Security principles
• Basic IEEE 802.11 security protections
• The vulnerabilities of IEEE 802.11 security
• Other wireless attacks

Unit 9 covers how to implement wireless LAN security

• Wireless security solutions
• Transitional security models
• Personal security models
• Enterprise security models

Unit 10 goes over managing WLANs

• Monitoring a wireless network
• Maintaining a wireless network
• Establishing wireless security policies

Unit 11 covers network settings and wireless LAN troubleshooting

• Working with wired network settings for wireless connections
• Troubleshooting wireless networks

Unit 12 discusses personal, metropolitan, and wide area wireless networks

• A look at wireless personal area networks
• A look at wireless metropolitan area networks
• A look at wireless wide area networks
• The future of wireless networks

Appendix A covers the Certified Wireless Network Administrator exam objectives
Appendix B discusses the setup options for Cisco Aironet access points
Appendix C details the Cisco access point configuration settings
Appendix D covers Linksys access point configuration settings
Appendix E lists Wireless Web sites
Appendix F lists IEEE committees