Certified Wireless Network Expert® (CWNE®)

The CWNE® (Certified Wireless Network Expert®) credential is the final step in the CWNP Program. By successfully completing the CWNE requirements, you will have demonstrated that you have the most advanced skills available in today's wireless LAN market. CWNE assures that you have mastered all relevant skills to administer, install, configure, troubleshoot, and design wireless network systems. Protocol analysis, intrusion detection and prevention, performance and QoS analysis, spectrum analysis and management, and advanced design are some of the areas of expertise you will need to know.

Benefits of Your CWNE Certification

• Be recognized as one of the top experts in wireless
• Prove you have mastered all aspects of wireless LANs
• Have greater opportunities in the field of wireless CWNE Requirements

To earn the CWNE certification, the following requirements must be met:

• Pass The Appropriate Exams
• Professional Experience
• Three Letters of Endorsement
• 60 Points in the CWNE Points Schedule

Pass The Appropriate Exams

• Candidate must pass PW0-100, PW0-200, and PW0-300 exams, and hold a valid CWSP certification at the time of application for CWNE.

Professional Experience
A minimum of 2 years of verifiable, documented, full-time professional work experience with enterprise WLANs. This experience may include pre- or post-sales engineering, consulting or support services, or instructing experience in:

• WLAN Administration
• WLAN Security
• WLAN Protocol Analysis
• WLAN Quality of Service CWNE professional experience may include:
• Work requiring 802.11/WLAN education
• Work requiring habitual memory of 802.11 topics shared with others doing similar work.
• Management of projects and/or other employees involving 802.11 hardware and/or software.
• Work requiring creative writing and oral communication on 802.11 topics.
• Teaching, instructing, training and the mentoring of others on 802.11 topics.
• Research and development on 802.11 technologies and systems.
• Applicable titles such as officer, director, manager, leader, supervisor, administrator, designer, engineer, instructor, professor, consultant, architect, etc.

Three Letters of Endorsement Applicant endorsement forms
Three letters of endorsement from people familiar with your work history. All references will be verified and asked to provide specific information about you and your experience. Please notify your references that they will be contacted shortly after our receipt of your application. If your references are available for verification, your application will be processed faster.

60 Points in the CWNE Points Schedule
Candidates must have at least 60 points as defined in the points schedule of the CWNE Application.