Aruba Certified Edge Professional Exam (ACEP)

Design

10%

• Gather and analyze data, and document customer requirements for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network.
• Given an outline of a customer's needs, determine the information required to create a solution.

18%

• Evaluate the requirements for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network, and select the wired and wireless networking technologies for the design.
• Given a scenario, evaluate the customer requirements to identify gaps per a gap analysis, and select components based on the analysis results.
• Given a scenario, translate the business needs of the environment into technical customer requirements.

31%

• Plan and design an Aruba solution per the customer requirements for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network.
• Given a scenario, select the appropriate products based on the customer technical requirements.
• Given the customer requirements, design the high-level architecture.
• Given a customer scenario, explain how a specific technology or solution would meet the customer requirements.

33%

• Produce a detailed design specification document for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network.
• Given a customer scenario, choose the appropriate components that should be included on the BOM.
• Given the customer requirements, determine the component details and document the high-level design.
• Given a customer scenario, determine and document a detailed network management design.
• Given a customer scenario, design and document a detailed network security solution.
• Given a customer scenario, design and document the logical and physical network solutions.
• Given the customer scenario and service level agreements, document the licensing and maintenance requirements.

8%

• Recommend the solution to the customer.
• Given the customer's requirements, explain and justify the recommended solution.

Mobility

20%

• Integrate and implement Aruba Mobile First architecture components and explain their uses.
• Integrate components of the Aruba Mobile First Architecture.
• Differentiate between standalone mode and Master Controller Mode (MCM) features and recommend use cases.
• Differentiate the use of packet forwarding modes (tunnel, decrypt-tunnel, split-tunnel, and bridge).
• Differentiate between redundancy methods, and describe the benefits of L2 and L3 clustering.
• Explain Remote Access architectures and how to integrate the architectures.
• Describe and differentiate advanced licensing features.

20%

• Configure and validate Aruba WLAN secure employee and guest solutions.
• Configure Remote Access with Aruba Solutions such as RAP and VIA.
• Configure and deploy redundant controller solutions based upon a given design.
• Configure a Mesh WLAN.

38%

• Implement advanced services and security.
• Enable multicast DNS features to support discovery across VLAN boundaries.
• Configure role derivation, and explain and implement advanced role features.
• Configure an AAA server profile for a user or administrative access.
• Implement Mobility Infrastructure hardening features.
• Explain Clarity features and functions.
• Implement Voice WLAN based upon a given design.
• Configure primary zones and data zones to support MultiZone AP.
• Implement mobility (roaming) in an Aruba wireless environment.
• Implement tunneled node to secure ArubaOS switches.

10%

• Manage and monitor Aruba solutions.
• Use AirWave to monitor an Aruba Mobility Master and Mobility Controller.
• Perform maintenance upgrades and operational maintenance.

12%

• Troubleshoot Aruba WLAN solutions.
• Troubleshoot controller communication.
• Troubleshoot the WLAN.
• Troubleshoot Remote Access.
• Troubleshoot issues related to services and security.
• Troubleshoot role-based access, per-port based security and Airmatch.

Switching

14%

• Plan the wired network solution.
• Given a scenario with an architect's design and/or customer requirements, identify gaps between the design and customer requirements.
• Given a scenario with an architect's design and/or customer requirements, determine an appropriate implementation, monitoring, and management plan.

46%

• Install and configure the wired network solution.
• Given an implementation plan, configure backplane stacking and VSF.
• Given an implementation plan, explain how to configure Layer 2 technologies.
• Given an implementation plan, explain how to configure and validate Layer 3 interfaces, services, routing protocols and overlays.
• Explain multicast features and configuration concepts.
• Explain ArubaOS-Switch security features and configuration concepts.
• Explain QoS ArubaOS-Switch features and configuration concepts.
• Explain mobility integration features and configuration concepts.

27%

• Troubleshoot the wired network solution.
• Given a scenario, identify a failure such as an IP mismatch, VLAN mismatch, hardware failure, or configuration error.
• Given an action plan to remediate an issue, determine the implications to the network state.
• Given a scenario, determine the cause of the performance problem such as QoS issue, configuration issue with hardware and software, and end node.
• Given a scenario, predict the outcome based on the changes to the security configuration.
• Given a scenario with an identified security issue, determine the remediation actions.

13%

• Manage, maintain, optimize, and monitor the wired network solution.
• Given a scenario, determine a strategy to implement configuration management (maintenance, auditing, backup, archiving) and to monitor the network.
• Analyze data that represents the operational state of a network and determine the appropriate action.

ClearPass

5%

• Intro to ClearPass

25%

• ClearPass for AAA

6%

• External Authentication

23%

• Guest

17%

• Onboard

6%

• Endpoint Analysis

8%

• Posture

5%

• Operations and Admin Users

5%

• Clustering and Redundancy