What you’ll learn
The Understanding Cisco Wireless Foundations (WLFNDU) course equips you with the expertise required to strategically position, plan, deploy, operate, and oversee a Cisco® wireless LAN (WLAN) network. This comprehensive training program imparts the skills needed for designing, installing, configuring, monitoring, and performing fundamental troubleshooting tasks on Cisco WLAN networks of various scales. Additionally, successful completion of this training grants you 30 Continuing Education (CE) credits for recertification purposes.
While this training doesn’t directly lead to a certification exam, it serves as a valuable foundation, providing essential knowledge that can enhance your readiness for professional-level enterprise wireless training and examinations.
| Enterprise Wireless trainings | Enterprise Wireless exams |
| Designing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networks (ENWLSD) | 300-425 Designing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networks (ENWLSD) |
| Implementing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networks (ENWLSI) | 300-430 Implementing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networks (ENWLSI) |
Who should enroll
- Network engineer
- Systems engineer
- Wireless engineer
- Technical solutions architect
- Network administrator
- Wireless design engineer
- Network manager
Technology areas
- Enterprise networking
- Wireless networking
Training overview
Objectives
- Describe and implement foundational wireless theory
- Describe and implement basic wireless security and client access
- Describe and implement a Cisco wireless network architecture
- Configure Cisco centralized wireless networks
- Describe and implement WLAN maintenance and troubleshooting
Prerequisites
We recommend but do not require that you have the following knowledge and skills before taking this training:
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- General knowledge of networks
- General knowledge of wireless networks
- Routing and switching knowledge
Lab outline
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- Practice RF Math
- Antenna Calculations
- Explore the Wi-Fi Environment
- Analyze Wireless Frames
- Configure Client Access
- Configure the Wired Infrastructure
- Configure a Centralized Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) Deployment
- Configure a Centralized WLAN Deployment on Cisco 3504 WLC
- Configure a Centralized WLAN Deployment on Cisco 9800 WLC
- Configure an IPv6 Operation in a Centralized WLAN Deployment
- Optimize RF Conditions and Performance for Clients
- Perform Centralized Controller Maintenance
- Use Troubleshooting Tools
