CWAP Prep Podcast
By Russell Lamb
Categories: Education, Courses
Study for the CWAP Wireless Networking Exam
11 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- 802.11 Frame Exchanges, Part Five: Hotspot 2.0 and Passpoint (CWAP Domain 6)
Part five of Domain 6 covers Hotspot 2.0 from the phone's side: the questions a phone asks an access point before it joins, and how it gets in afterward.In this episode, an airport installs access points to carry a mobile carrier's traffic. The carrier's test phones see the network and stay on…
- 802.11 Frame Exchanges, Part Four: MIMO, Beamforming, and Multi-User (CWAP Domain 6)
Part four of Domain 6 covers radios that send more than one stream at once, and APs that serve more than one client at once.In this episode, a training room gets new four-stream Wi-Fi 6 APs, sold as built to serve the whole room at once. An acceptance test fails them: "AP limited to two streams…
- 802.11 Frame Exchanges, Part Three: Data, Power Save, and Protection (CWAP Domain 6)
Part three of Domain 6 looks at the air after a client is connected: data frames, acknowledgements, power save, and protection.In this episode, pickers in a warehouse say every scan hesitates before it beeps. The signal is fine, and the server answers in a few milliseconds. The delay is somewhere…
- 802.11 Frame Exchanges, Part Two: WPA3, Enhanced Open, and Roaming (CWAP Domain 6)
Part two of Domain 6 covers how a client joins a WPA3 network, how an open network can still be encrypted, and what happens when a client moves to another AP.In this episode, people on a corporate campus take Wi-Fi calls while they walk across a glass skybridge between two buildings. The call…
- 802.11 Frame Exchanges, Part One: Joining a Network (CWAP Domain 6)
Domain 6 of the CWAP-405 exam is 802.11 frame exchanges. It is the largest domain on the exam, so it takes more than one episode. Part one follows a client as it joins a network.In this episode, a warehouse picker says their tablet connects for a second, drops, and loops, but IT says the password…
- WLAN Medium Access (CWAP Domain 5)
Domain 5 of the CWAP-405 exam is WLAN medium access: how a station decides when it is allowed to send, and how QoS changes the odds.In this episode, a nurse on a hospital ward says her voice badge breaks up when she is listening, but not when she is talking. Same AP, strong signal, and the caller…
- MAC Sublayer and Functions (CWAP Domain 4)
Domain 4 of the CWAP-405 exam is the MAC sublayer: frame types and formats, what a beacon carries, what a client says when it joins, aggregation, and retries.In this episode, a loading-dock handheld with a strong signal takes all morning to sync while the phone next to it finishes in minutes. The…
- MAC Sublayer and Functions (CWAP Domain 4)
Domain 4 of the CWAP-405 exam is the MAC sublayer: frame types and formats, what a beacon carries, what a client says when it joins, aggregation, and retries.In this episode, a loading-dock handheld with a strong signal takes all morning to sync while the phone next to it finishes in minutes. The…
- PHY Layers and Technologies (CWAP Domain 3)
Domain 3 of the CWAP-405 exam is PHY Layers and Technologies. It is 10 percent of the exam, and it decides what your capture can and can't show you.In this episode:What every PHY puts at the front of a transmission, from DSSS through EHT: preambles, training fields, and signalingWhy the legacy…
- Spectrum Analysis (CWAP Domain 2)
Domain 2 of the CWAP-405 exam is spectrum analysis: seeing the energy a Wi-Fi capture can't decode.In this episode, nurses' voice badges lose words near the nurses' station, all day and worse at lunch. The ticket says the signal is good. Russell and Juliet carry a spectrum analyzer to the counter…
- Protocol Analysis (CWAP Domain 1)
Domain 1 of the CWAP-405 exam is protocol analysis: getting a capture you can trust, and reading it.In this episode, a warehouse's handheld scanners stall for a few seconds at every shift change. The dashboard is green, the contractor's capture shows clean air, and the database is fast. Russell…
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