Overview
You will be given a customer scenario to validate your mastery of campus networking, primarily focusing on wireless networking. The exam will also include aspects of wired networking, specifically focusing on wireless networking, security, connectivity, performance optimization, and troubleshooting. You must carefully follow the directions to address the customer concerns presented in the scenario. This exam will be on simulated hardware.
Advice to help you take this exam :
- USING CHROME OR FIREFOX IS REQUIRED.
- Candidates are expected to pass the HPE7-A05 written exam before taking this practical exam.
- Complete the training and review all course materials and documents before taking the exam.
- Use HPE Press study guides and additional reference materials to prepare.
- Exam items are based on expected knowledge acquired from job experience, an expected level of industry-standard knowledge, or other prerequisites (events, supplemental materials, etc.).
- You must demonstrate proficiency at an expert level during this practical exam.
- Completing the course or study materials alone does not guarantee passing the exam.
- A panel of subject matter experts determined the range of possible responses to each practical task and essay question to allow for as many outcomes and responses that meet the requirements. Your responses must fall within this range of possible responses to earn credit for each practical task.
- You may print or email your score report when you finish the exam. If you fail the exam, you must wait 30 days before you can retake it.
A qui s'adresse cette formation
The typical candidate for this certification is a senior radio frequency (RF) network engineer or solutions architect. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience with complex wireless networks, mastery of configuration, and troubleshooting.
Objectifs
Network Stack
- Given a customer issue, analyze a solution and troubleshoot
- Encapsulation
- Frame communication
- Application Layer (through the stack)
- Packets
Connectivity
- Develop configurations based on customer requirements
- Apply advanced networking architectures and technologies.
- VXLAN, OSPF, etc.
- Overlay, underlay, NetConductor
- Identify problem areas of a design
- Network architectures
- Device architecture (management plane, data plane, control plane)
- Topologies (Mesh, PtP, PtMP)
- Wireless frequency (general due to regional differences), standards, channels, reserve channels, DFS, channel widths
- Antennas (omni/directional, Fresnel zone)
- Broadcast, multicast, unicast
Switching
- Implement, troubleshoot, and remediate Layer 2/3 including broadcast domains and interconnection technologies
- Broadcast, multicast, unicast
- 802.1Q Trunk VLAN tagging
- MAC address tables and VLANs
- LLDP
- IPv4, IPv6
- ARP/ND
- Interface (SVI, ROP, loopback)
- PoE budget
- Jumbo Frames, MTU
WLAN
- Design and troubleshoot RF attributes and wireless functions
- Broadcast, multicast, unicast
- Mesh
- WPA2, WPA3, OWE, PSK, SAE
- MPSK
- RF management (2.4,5,6)
- .11k/v/r
- Onboard APs
- WMM (CoS, DSCP)
- Build a configuration based on customer requirements
- Switch, AP, gateway
- Gateway cluster provisioning (autosite vs autocluster)
- AAA (PSK, SAE, WPA3)
- Tunneled/Mixed (overlay) SSID
- (NetConductor)
Security
- Design and troubleshoot implementation of security and concepts in customer networks
- WPA2, WPA3, OWE, PSK, SAE
- Employee/guest access
- Certificates
- ACLs (Stateful, stateless)
- Roles
- IPsec/encryption
- Captive portal
- Firewall policies
- IKEv1/IKEv2
- GBP
- Hardening (removing unneeded services, adding passwords, Management ACL)
- Dynamic Segmentation (UBT, LUR, DUR)
- Given a scenario, troubleshoot wireless SSID with EAP-TLS
- Firewall policies and roles
- EAP-TLS/captive portal
Authentication/Authorization
- Design and troubleshoot AAA configurations based on requirements
- Port authentication and access control
- MPSK
- AAA (TACACS, RADIUS)
- 802.1X, MAC AUTH, Captive Portal
- Authentication Stores (active directory, SQL, LDAP, SAML, OAUTH [MFA])
- 802.1X supplicant (client)
- CoA (Dynamic Authorization)
- Administrative Access (RBAC management)
- Availability of authentication services
- Create and analyze ClearPass integration
- 802.1X guest and MAC auth services, profiling
- Integration with network, NAD
- Troubleshooting and analyzing AAA events
Troubleshooting
- Perform advanced troubleshooting and remediation of campus networks
- Fault Monitoring
- HPE Aruba Networking Central
- Troubleshooting wired (performance connectivity)
- Advanced Troubleshooting wireless (performance connectivity, security)
- Advanced Troubleshooting the solution (packet capture, tools, methodologies, routing tables, etc.)