Exam: Certified Wireless IoT Solutions Administrator Exam (CWISA-103)

When you pass the CWISA exam, you earn the CWISA certification and credit towards the CWISE certification should you choose to pursue it.

The Certified Wireless IoT Solutions Administrator (CWISA) implements, administers and troubleshoots technologies that heavily rely upon, or directly integrate with, wireless systems in enterprise, government, and manufacturing environments. This individual can install, customize, and coordinate appropriate solutions to meet an organization’s requirements and constraints.

The skills and knowledge measured by this examination are derived from a Job Task Analysis (JTA) involving wireless networking experts and professionals. The results of this JTA were used in weighting the subject areas and ensuring that the weighting is representative of the relative importance of the content.

CWISA is built upon two decades of historic quality in WLAN (802.11) certifications and begins the extension of CWNP offerings into the non-802.11 wireless solutions:

• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
• Machine to Machine Communications (M2M)
• Zigbee
• 11a and WirelessHART
• 15.4
• LoRa/LoRaWAN
• Sigfox
• Thread
• 6LoWPan
• Location Services
• Wired-Side Supporting Technologies
• High-Level Awareness of APIs and Automation/Integration Concepts
• Project and Program Management Specific to Wireless Solutions Projects

The following provides the breakdown of the exam as to the distribution of questions within each knowledge domain.

Knowledge Domain                                       Percentage

Wireless Technologies                                          15%

• Maintain continued awareness of wireless IoT technologies and applications of those technologies
• understand industry standard, certification and regulatory organizations and standards development processes
• Define wireless network types
• Understand hardware and software components of IoT end devices and gateways

Radio Frequency Communications                     15%

• Explain the basic RF wave characteristics, behaviors and measurements used for
• wireless communications
• Describe the fundamentals of modulation techniques used in wireless communications
• Explain the basic capabilities of components used in RF communications
• Describe the basic use and capabilities of the RF bands

Planning Wireless Solutions                                 20%

• Identify and use the wireless IoT system requirements
• Identify and comply with system constraints
• Select appropriate wireless IoT solutions based on requirements and constraints
• Plan for the technical requirements of the wireless IoT solution
• Understand the basic features and capabilities of common wireless IoT solutions and plan for their implementation

Implementing Wireless Solutions                       25%

• Understand the wireless IoT solution and consider key issues related to automation, integration, monitoring, and management
• Use best practices in wireless IoT solution implementations
• Validate wireless solution implementations including RF communications and application functionality
• Understand and implement basic installation procedures Implement best practices in knowledge transfer and hand-off

Supporting Wireless Solutions                           25%

• Administer the wireless solution while considering the implications of various vertical markets
• Troubleshoot common problems in wireless IoT solutions
• Understand and determine the best use of scripting and programming solutions for wireless IoT implementations
• Understand application architectures and their impact on wireless IoT solutions