CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-100), Fourth Edition (Certification Press) [Paperback]

Tom Carpenter (Author), Joel Barrett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071494901 | ISBN-13: 978-0071494908 | Publication Date: August 17, 2007 | Edition: 4

The only official study guide for CWNA Exam PW0-100

Fully authorized by the exam developers at the CWNP program, this comprehensive study guide thoroughly covers all the topics on the CWNA certification exam. Work at your own pace through a system of lessons, scenarios, and review questions to learn the material quickly and easily.

CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide will help you prepare for the exam by showing you, step-by-step, how to implement, troubleshoot, and maintain wireless LANs. Get the only study guide endorsed by the creators of the CWNA exam and start your career as an expert wireless network administrator.

Maximize your performance on the exam by learning:

• Wireless Standards, Organizations, and Applications
• Radio Frequency and Antenna Fundamentals
• Spread Spectrum Technologies
• IEEE 802.11
• WLAN Design Models, Topologies, and Infrastructure
• Site Surveying and Network Planning
• Infrastructure and Client Hardware and Software
• Security
• Troubleshooting

Complete Exam Coverage

• Comprehensive details on all CWNA exam objectives
• Review questions modeled after the real exam
• Helpful chapter summaries and key term lists
• Vendor-neutral coverage of wireless technologies and equipment

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Tom Carpenter, CWNA, CWSP, Wireless#, MCP, teaches in-depth courses on Microsoft technologies, wireless networking and security, and professional development skills.

Series editor Joel Barrett, CWNE #6, CCNP, CCDP, MCNE, MCSE, is a systems engineer, author, and instructor with more than 18 years of experience in network engineering, design, and analysis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 644 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 4 edition (August 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071494901
• ISBN-13: 978-0071494908
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,877 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Passed the CWNA!!, February 2, 2008

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Bruce D. Heaven "South GA engineer" (Albany, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-100), Fourth Edition (Certification Press) (Paperback)

This book was a great tool for helping me pass the CWNA! Tom has covered the material in enough detail that it gives you a foundation of wireless knowledge to build on to pass the CWNA test. As Tom states in the book, you need to use other reference material, in addition to this book, to prepare for the test.

thanks Tom!

Bruce

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Resource, a little rough around the edges, January 12, 2009

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Brian G. Hughes "We are men of action, lies d... (Memphis, TN, Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-100), Fourth Edition (Certification Press) (Paperback)

I am sure like most other purchasers of this book, I utilized it to study for and pass the CWNA certification exam, it was a very helpful resource. I found the book very readable, un-like many other industry certification preparation texts. The information was presented in an organized manor, coinciding with the topics of the exam.

Unfortunately the book had quite a few errors, some were minor typos, but some were in sample calculations. These errors could have been very detrimental to the novice applicant had this been the applicant's sole source of preparation material. From the forward of the book, it was stated that this item was a complete re-write from the third edition, due to the dynamic nature of wireless and the recent changes to the IEEE 802.11. Effectively, this writing was a first edition and errors of this type are not unexpected in a textbook's first printing. At the time I was using the book it had been in print for about 9 months, and when I went to the publisher's site the errata for this book did not exist, the only available was still for the third edition.

I contacted both the author and the publisher at that time; I was disappointed with the lack of response from the publisher, as well as the continuing lack of updated errata.

The good news is that the author, Tom Carpenter, did reply and assure me that he had also contacted his publisher and that the corrections would be published, but that he had very little control over the time frame.

Several months later in July of 08, the publisher Osborne-McGraw-Hill provided updated errata for the fourth edition. I would recommend that anyone using the book for test preparation get the updated errata from the publisher's web site.

I would hope that future printings will be updated to correct these deficiencies.

Despite the typographical errors I found it to be a very useful study companion and plan on using Tom Carpenter's CWSP Certified Wireless Security Professional Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-200), Second Edition when I undertake preparations for my CWSP exam and certification.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tedious nd Disappointing, October 13, 2008

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AW (Hants, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CWNA Certified Wireless Network Administrator Official Study Guide (Exam PW0-100), Fourth Edition (Certification Press) (Paperback)

I looked forward to the publication of this 4th Edition of the CWNA Guide, however I was woefully disappointed with it. The author's writing style is extremely dull and he does not seem to have the ability to convey useful technical information in the accessible and interesting way that the other 2 sets of authors (Planet 3 wireless team), and the other CWNA book by David Coleman and David Westcott achieve. All in all compared to the 2 earlier books, this is a painful book to get through. It just does not flow very well. As a result I've decided to keep the 2 other CWNA books, and use this one just for reference for the newer topics. I sincerley hope that the next edition will be written by Devin Akin and the Planet 3 Wireless team.