CWNP - Exam Tomorrow

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Exam Tomorrow

slinthi

2003-06-01, 6:26 pm

With my wife out of town, I've managed to spend some quality hours studying for the CWNA exam I've scheduled for tomorrow. Focus of my study efforts has been on the Official Study Guide, tutorials on the www.80211-planet.com site, and just about anything I could gleen by doing a Google search on "CWNA."

I know that there have been a number of postings on this site more or less complaining about the quality of exam questions. Those of us who have taken Microsoft, Novell, Cisco, Citrix, CompTIA and other certification exams know all to well that none have come close to producing the perfect exam. I'll let you know my thoughts on how this exam rates by comparison.

One thing I can say with regard to the study materials. As a computer science college professor, I'm likely qualified to make a representation as to the qualify of a technical book. The Official Study Guide is quality courseware. If any of you monitoring this forum were involved in producing this book, you should be proud of the resulting product.

Regards,

Steve

isles1

2003-06-01, 7:09 pm

Best of luck!

As long as you have read the Study Guide over a few times, and are comfortable with the technologies out there, you should do fine. It is definately one of the better written books I have read. Easy to follow and to the point.

If the CWNA 2.0 is really live (as rumored and as listed by Prometric) and has been revised to clear up some of the problems with clarity on the CWNA 1.0, this should be in your favor.

If more weight has been placed on "scenerio" type questions like I think was mentioned by Devin in a thread in this forum, this may trip you up if you do not have a lot of experience with WLANs.

Keep us posted regarding how the test turns out.

EDIT: The CWNE site says 2.0 will be available worldwide in June, so I am guessing that is the exam you will be presented with tomorrow. Some info regarding the changes ripped from the CWNE site:

The following are the changes in CWNA™ 2.0 from CWNA 1.0

-The examinee is told how many answers to choose on multiple-choice, multiple-answer questions
-Questions on obsolete or non-WLAN relevant technologies have been removed, such as HomeRF, IrDA, Bluetooth (unless it directly relates to interfering with 802.11), OpenAir, etc.
-Many of the FHSS questions have been removed in order to make the amount of content covered on FHSS more proportional with the industry
-The question pools are smaller and each pool has an even distribution of question types. This was in contrast to very large pools and the examinee was not guaranteed to have even coverage of subject areas in the old exam.
-All errata has been fixed that was reported in examinee comments and found during exam reviews.
-Many distracters were changed due to industry technology changes making wrong answers right.
-Very simple questions were removed from the question pools in order to compensate for making the test easier by letting the examinee know how many answers to choose.
-Some questions that were not related to the technology itself, such as questions on industry organizations, were eliminated from the question pools in order to give the test a better industry perspective. Industry organizations such as IrDA, WLANA (defunct), WLIF (defunct), Wi-Fi Alliance, and others are playing and have played an important role along the way, but they should be only minimaly covered on the exam.
-Some subject areas were overly saturated with questions. Many of these were removed, though a modest portion of these remain in each question pool. An example is wireless LAN client utility features. These are sometimes subjective, but are important nonetheless. The volume of these questions in each pool now has the proper perspective.

Devinator

2003-06-04, 11:26 pm

Thanks Steve,

We very much appreciate your kind words. More work went into that book that you'd believe. We were beginners in the courseware and study guide business, and struggled with putting something together that would be on par with the industry. We started out having a test, then suddenly found ourselves in the courseware, study guide, practice test, and training business...and the next thing you know we were a publishing company too. :-) We've learned much in a short time. Thanks again for the encouragement - it's very much appreciated!

Devin

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