Certified Wireless Network Administrator - CWNA (CWNA) - Lab Topology

Hands-on Lab Exercises

Spectrum Capture and Analysis

• Installing spectrum analyzer software
• Performing and analyzing a capture
• Swept Spectrogram
• Real Time FFT
• FFT Duty Cycle
• Channel Utilization
• Interference with Wi-Fi Channels
• Interfering Device Discovery

Infrastructure Mode Throughput Analysis

• Section A: Greenfield mode throughput (802.11b vs. g vs. a vs. n)
• Section B: Mixed mode throughput
• Section C: Adjacent and co-channel interference
• Understanding speeds and feeds of Wi-Fi technologies

Using Laptop Analyzers

• Using laptop analyzers for WLAN discovery and protocol analysis.
• Understanding security and performance related protocol analysis
• Installing and configuring a WLAN discovery tool.
• Installing and configuring a laptop protocol analyzer
• Locating 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WLANs
• Capturing and analyzing Management, Control, and Data frames
• Capturing and analyzing a WPA2-Personal authentication
• A protocol analyzer is provided on the student CD

Site Survey

• Classes of site survey methodology
• Section A: Manual site surveys (sometimes called the walkabout)
• Section B: Predictive analysis (sometimes called automated site surveying)
• Manual site surveying
• Active mode vs passive mode
• Predictive analysis software tools

Basic WLAN Security

• WPA compliant
• WPA2 compliant
• Personal vs Enterprise
• TKIP encryption
• 802.11i compliant CCMP
• 802.1X/EAP authentication

Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems

• security monitoring
• performance monitoring
• reporting
• Installation and configuration of WIPS
• Properly classifying authorized, rogue/unauthorized, and external/interfering access points or clients
• Event monitoring and notification
• Identifying and mitigating rogue devices