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RUCKUS Certified Wi-Fi Associate
Exam Description
As a RUCKUS Certified Wi-Fi Associate (RCWA), you must be able to design, deploy and manage RUCKUS Wi-Fi solutions in a variety of production environments. This exam assesses your ability to design, configure, administer, troubleshoot, and optimize RUCKUS Wi-Fi solutions.
Ideal Candidate
Before attempting the exam, you should have these critical competencies and experience:
- Foundational Wi-Fi Technologies, Standards, and Concepts
- RUCKUS Technologies, Products, and Solutions
- Designing and Planning RUCKUS Wi-Fi Solutions
- Wi-Fi Solution Installation, Configuration, and Setup
- Wi-Fi Solution Enhancement through tuning and Optimization
- Wi-Fi Solution Troubleshooting and Repair
- RUCKUS Wi-Fi Solution Management
Preparatory Courses and Study Materials
RUCKUS provides a variety of free online supporting courses listed on page 3 of this document. The Exam Blueprint starting on page 2 an overview of the topics covered in the exam. You can also use the RCWA Nutshell Study Guide
Target Audience
This certification is designed for wireless network designers, installers and administrators, Wi-Fi solutions architects and Wi-Fi support engineers tasked with design, installation, configuration, management, administration and troubleshooting of RUCKUS Wi-Fi deployments.
Self-Assessment Worksheet
To help you identify areas to focus your study activities, we offer a self-assessment worksheet that allows you to rate your confidence on the many topics covered in the exam. Below you’ll find a blueprint of these topics with links into support documentation, followed by a list of supporting courseware
| Price |
$150 USD |
| Passing Score |
65% |
| Questions |
60 |
| Exam Duration |
2 Hours |
| Study time |
20-60 hours |
| Language |
English only |
| Period of Validity |
3 Years |
Course Details
- 802.11 channelization and frequency bands (a/b/g/n/ac/ax/BE)
- Antenna patterns and characteristics
- Fresnel Zone
- Mesh vs. P2P bridge
- OFDM vs. OFDMA
- Wi-Fi authentication methods and association steps
- Certificate signing process, certificate management/PKI
- Hotspot 2.0, OSU, 802.11u, ANQP, WISPr, WebAuth
- Client roaming across APs (high-level concept)
- RUCKUS proprietary Wi-Fi technologies
- RUCKUS implementation of Bonjour Gateway and Fencing
- Auto-cell sizing
- RUCKUS approach to Zero Touch: SWIPE, deploy APs, Registrar, utilizing for SmartZone and R1
- Appropriate choice of controller/platform sizing: SmartZone, ZD, UnL, R1/Cloud, limitations
- SmartZone options
- ICX switch management from controller
- API capabilities
- Data planes: SmartZone-144D, SmartZone-100D, vDP
- AP software types
- Clustering, geo-redundancy, and failover
- IoT basics, integration into APs, and related hardware and software modules
- Positioning of additional services: CloudPath, RUCKUS Analytics/RUCKUS AI, Network Director
- Licensing and registration for RUCKUS Products (including R1)
- Support site documentation, software, firmware downloads
- Process, methods, and tools used in site survey at basic levels
- Wireless planning add parameters
- Processes for gathering needs and system requirements
- Use cases for tunneling v. local breakout
- Network segmentation — tunneling, Edge (premise cloud), VXLAN, DPSK, verticals
- Traffic management and security strategies
- Load and band balancing
- Appropriate products for design/verticals
- Requirements for additional RUCKUS services
- Appropriate hypervisor/host/resource sizing
- Security planning
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Fundamentals of firewall
- Basics of PKI protocols and sequence
- AP discovery methods
- PoE budget and priorities and link speed
- Zone, domain, group planning, and templates
- Cluster, redundancy, failover planning
- VLAN tagging scheme System setup & configuration for SmartZone and RUCKUS One
- Initial wirless network design
- Basic controller setup
- Licensing implementation (controllers, APs, Google Maps, clusters)
- WLAN and AP groups, zones, and domains
- Licensing (APs, Switches, MSP, essentials vs professional)
- AP groups and venues
- Deployment best practices
- Preprovisioning
- Discovery methods
- Attributes
- Migration and reimaging
- CLI set-up, configuration, and management
- Bonjour Gateway and fencing
- Additional RUCKUS services (IoT, AI, CloudPath, etc.)
- Traffic-management policies
- VLAN pooling and dynamic VLANs
- Floor plan/maps
- Mesh, SmartMesh, Zero Touch Mesh
- WLAN Security, authentication, and encryption (MAC)
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Guest access configuation: WISPr, walled garden, captive portal, CloudPath for specific services
- Wi-Fi performance optimization
- Load and band balancing
- Airtime fairness, decongestion
- 802.11k, 802.11r, 802.11v, sticky client
- Client Admission Control (CAC)
- Enabling & configuring OFDM-Only, BSS Minrate, and Tx Management rates
- Channel selection and optimization: DFS, pros and cons of DFS, R1, RUCKUS AI
- Automatic v. manual power optimization
- Data gathering, analysis and troubleshooting
- Client connectivity troubleshooting tools and processes
- AP to controller troubleshooting
- Packet/frame capture
- 3rd party and internal communication: APIs, NBI, AAA logs, Syslog, SNMP services
- Solution management functions (SmartZone and RUCKUS One)
- Upgrade path and process management
- Administrators and administrative role management
- Events and alarms (SNMP, Syslog)
- Administrative action monitoring and audit logging
- Backup and restoration on SmartZone
- Report creation
- Health dashboards and threshold settings
- Rogue APs and locate on map (SSID spoofing, MAC spoofing)
| Fees Structure : |
12500 INR / 150 USD |
| Total No of Class : |
86 Video Class |
| Class Duration : |
58:30 Working Hours |
| Download Feature : |
Download Avalable |
| Technical Support : |
Call / Whatsapp : +91 8680961847 |
| Working Hours : |
Monday to Firday 9 AM to 6 PM |
| Payment Mode : |
Credit Card / Debit Card / NetBanking / Wallet (Gpay/Phonepay/Paytm/WhatsApp Pay) |
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| Fees Structure : |
22500 INR / 270 USD |
| Class Duration : |
60 Days |
| Class Recording : |
Live Class Recording available |
| Class Time : |
Monday to Firday 1.5 hours per day / Weekend 3 Hours per day |
| Technical Support : |
Call / Whatsapp : +91 8680961847 |
| Working Hours : |
Monday to Firday 9 AM to 6 PM |
| Payment Mode : |
Credit Card / Debit Card / NetBanking / Wallet (Gpay/Phonepay/Paytm/WhatsApp Pay) |
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