Course Overview
The ACSX Written Exam is required to be passed before the practical exam. Once the written is passed, you will only have 18 months to pass the ACSX Practical Exam. Candidates who do not pass the ACSX Practical Exam within 18 months will have to retake the current ACSX Written Exam. HPE recommends that you register for the ACSX Practical Exam within 12 months of passing the written exam to ensure that you pass in the allotted 18-month timeframe.
This exam tests knowledge of expert implementation experience with Aruba wired switching solutions, including the ability to implement and optimize enterprise-level Aruba Switching campus LAN solutions. The candidate can resolve issues related to implementation and ongoing support, perform protocol level analysis, and problem resolution (e.g. analyzing the interaction between multiple devices using packet traces). This exam is the prerequisite to the Aruba Certified Switching Expert Practical exam.
Who should attend
The ideal candidate will typically have more than 5 years of of advanced networking experience focused on interpreting complex network architectures and customer requirements to implement, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize multi-vendor network solutions. The successful candidate is very familiar with Aruba wired switching solutions.
Course Content
This exam validates that you can:
7% Plan the wired network solution
- Given a set of customer requirements, create an implementation plan
51% Install and configure the wired network solution
- Identify the appropriate use of configuration methods (e.g. NetEdit, CLI, config Snippet, API, templates)
- Given a multi-site, multi-vendor scenario, explain how to implement Layer 2 switching
- Given a multi-site, multi-vendor scenario, explain how to implement an appropriate Layer 3 solution
- Given a multi-site, multi-vendor scenario, explain how to implement security
- Given a multi-site, multi-vendor scenario, explain how to implement an appropriate QoS solution
- Given a multi-site, multi-vendor scenario, explain how to implement Aruba solution integration
- Given a network design, apply appropriate NAE agents and apply to appropriate interfaces
30% Troubleshoot the wired network solution
- Given a scenario with multiple network issues, identify the causes
- Given a scenario with multiple identified network issues, resolve the issues
- Given a network security issue, explain the methodology to use for analyzing the issues
12% Manage and monitor Aruba solutions
- Given a scenario, determine an approach to optimize the network