1. Candidate must pass PW0-100, PW0-200, and PW0-300 exams.

2. 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.

3. Three letters of endorsement

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.

Applicant endorsement forms PDF(485kb) 

4. 60 Points in the CWNE Points Schedule

Candidates must have at least 60 points as defined in the points schedule of the CWNE Application PDF(64kb)