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2024 Rcwa Exam Study Guide - 2
2024 Rcwa Exam Study Guide - 2
RCWA
RUCKUS Certified Wi-Fi Associate Exam
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
Price: $150 USD experience:
RUCKUS Certification Store • Foundational Wi-Fi technologies, standards, and concepts
Passing Score: 65% • RUCKUS technologies, products, and solutions
These free online resources are provided as materials to assist in your exam preparation. Online courses are available in
CommScope University, and you will need a MyCommScope account to access these courses.
The exam blueprint outlines the range of content that may be included in the exam. Section weights are approximate and not all
topics have associated questions.
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• Network segmentation — tunneling, Edge (premise cloud), VXLAN, DPSK, verticals
Traffic and load planning
• Traffic management and security strategies
• Load and band balancing
Product selection for solution
• Appropriate products for design/verticals
• Requirements for additional RUCKUS services
• Appropriate hypervisor/host/resource sizing
Security planning & access control
• Security planning
• Role-based access control (RBAC)
• Fundamentals of firewall
• Basics of PKI protocols and sequence
WLAN management planning
• AP discovery methods
• PoE budget and priorities and link speed
• Zone, domain, group planning, and templates
• Cluster, redundancy, failover planning
• VLAN tagging scheme
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5% Wi-Fi Solution Troubleshooting & Repair
• 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
Study Materials
Product Manuals
RUCKUS SmartZone 100, SmartZone 144, and Virtual SmartZone-Essentials Administrator
Guide, 5.2.2
RUCKUS SmartZone 300 and Virtual SmartZone-High Scale Administrator Guide, 5.2.2
RUCKUS Virtual SmartZone Getting Started Guide
RUCKUS SmartZone Data Plane Configuration Guide
RUCKUS SmartZone Upgrade Guide, 5.2.2
RUCKUS SmartZone 100 and Virtual SmartZone-Essentials Command Reference, 5.2.2
RUCKUS SmartZone 300 and Virtual SmartZone-High-Scale Command Reference Guide, 5.2.2
RUCKUS Unleashed 200.9 User Guide
RUCKUS Cloud User Guide, 21.03
Cloud-managed Systems
RUCKUS One Datasheet
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