Aruba Certified Associate - Campus Access Exam

Overview

This exam validates the candidate’s basic wired and wireless network knowledge, including routing/switching, basic RF concepts, basic security, connectivity, monitoring, and reporting.

 

Who should attend

The typical candidate for this certification is a network field technician, deployment technician, NOC Level 1, or junior network engineer with hands-on experience with Aruba products. The ideal candidate has 1+ years of experience with networking and a vendor agnostic understanding of basic network protocols. Under the direction of a Professional or Expert, the candidate can apply the configuration and verify the status of a campus network.

Course Objectives

The certification validates knowledge and skills in these key areas:

Network Stack

  • Describe and differentiate various OSI Model layers and architectural elements
  • Describe and differentiate TCP/IP stack

Connectivity

  • Identify foundational networking architectures and technologies
  • Describe network infrastructure deployment

Network Resiliency and virtualization

  • Describe mechanisms for resiliency, redundancy, and fault tolerance
  • Manage an infrastructure device (AP, gateway, switch)

Switching

  • Describe the basics of Layer 2/3 technologies
  • Review and apply a campus architecture and elements based on a given template

WLAN

  • Describe fundamental RF attributes and wireless functions
  • Create a AP GUI configuration group

Routing

  • Differentiate between basic routing topologies and functions
  • Evaluate and deploy basic routing topologies

Security

  • Define fundamental security standards and concepts
  • Integrate wireless SSID into an existing ClearPass deployment

Authentication / Authorization

  • Describe and differentiate between AAA concepts

Management and Monitoring

  • Define and differentiate between common tools used for network monitoring
  • Evaluate and interpret UXI test results
  • Use Central to monitor network health

Troubleshooting

  • Define Basic Troubleshooting methodologies

Performance Optimization

  • Describe QoS

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