Cisco WLCOR 350-101 study materials
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Cisco WLCOR 350-101 study plan

Cisco WLCOR 350-101 · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 8 hours per week

Week 1

Wireless fundamentals and RF principles

  • Convert between dBm, mW, and dB for 15 values by hand with zero calculator errors

  • Compute EIRP from radio power, cable loss, and antenna gain across 8 practice problems

  • Sketch the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz channel plans and label overlapping, non-overlapping, and DFS channels

  • Explain how Fresnel zone clearance and free-space path loss change a point-to-point link budget in a 1-page write-up

  • Match 6 antenna types (omni, patch, Yagi, panel, dipole, sector) to their coverage use cases

Your checkpoint

One-page RF reference sheet plus 30 self-written RF calculation items solved at 90% or better accuracy

Week 2

Wireless design and site survey concepts & Wireless fundamentals and RF principles

  • Translate a stated business requirement into coverage and capacity requirements with explicit client mix and throughput assumptions

  • Compare predictive, AP-on-a-stick, passive, and validation surveys and select the right one for 5 given scenarios

  • Produce an AP count and mounting plan for a 3-floor office building with stated justification for each placement decision

  • Justify a channel reuse and transmit power plan against stated co-channel and adjacent-channel interference rules

  • Re-run 10 missed week-1 RF items to confirm retention

Your checkpoint

Design packet for a 3-floor office: requirements, AP count, placement rationale, channel and power plan, and validation criteria

Week 3

Cisco wireless architectures and deployment models

  • Build a comparison table of AireOS versus Catalyst 9800 configuration models across at least 6 feature areas

  • Map cloud, on-premises, embedded controller, and Meraki deployment models to 3 customer scenarios each with a stated trade-off

  • Trace the packet path of a client association under central switching, FlexConnect local switching, and fabric-enabled wireless

  • Size a controller deployment including SSO HA pairing and N+1 sparing given AP counts and availability requirements

  • Explain CAPWAP control versus data tunneling and when each mode is used

Your checkpoint

Deployment decision matrix (models, switching modes, controller sizing) plus a 20-question self-quiz scored at 85% or higher

Week 4

Client connectivity, mobility, and roaming & Cisco wireless architectures and deployment models

  • Sequence the full client join from probe through association, 802.1X/EAP, key derivation, and the 4-way handshake in the correct order

  • Differentiate intra-controller, inter-controller, Layer 3, CCKM, OKC, and 802.11r roaming and choose the correct type for 5 stated scenarios

  • Diagnose 6 given client connectivity symptoms and assign a root cause to each

  • Describe how mobility groups, mobility anchors, and guest anchoring affect a roam in a written explanation

  • List the log or event evidence you would collect to prove a roam actually occurred

Your checkpoint

Roam analysis write-up: ordered join sequence, roaming-type decision table, and root-cause table for all 6 symptoms

Week 5

Wireless security and policy

  • Select the appropriate EAP method and 802.1X design for 5 stated security and client-OS requirements

  • Compare WPA2, WPA3, OWE, PMF, and transition modes and state when each is required or recommended

  • Diagram the RADIUS/AAA flow including CoA, accounting, and web-auth guest onboarding decision points

  • Apply policy constructs (ACLs, VLAN-to-WLAN mapping, Flex ACLs, client profiling, device classification) to 3 scenarios

  • Identify the correct certificate and trust setup for a stated controller and AP deployment

Your checkpoint

Security design brief for a three-SSID network (corporate 802.1X, guest web-auth, IoT PSK) covering authentication, encryption, policy, and segmentation

Week 6

Wireless operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting & Client connectivity, mobility, and roaming

  • Rank available troubleshooting data sources (packet capture, spectrum analysis, client debug, RRM logs, controller alarms) against 6 given symptom categories

  • Write the isolation sequence for an AP join failure covering CAPWAP discovery state, licensing, certificates, and reachability

  • Map at least 8 controller and AP health metrics to concrete alert thresholds and explain what each indicates

  • Explain RRM, DCA, and TPC behavior and state the conditions under which each should be disabled or tuned

  • Describe the first, second, and third checks for 10 common client, AP, and controller symptoms

Your checkpoint

Operations runbook covering 10 symptoms with ordered checks, expected evidence, and escalation criteria

Week 7

Wireless fundamentals and RF principles & Wireless design and site survey concepts & Cisco wireless architectures and deployment models & Client connectivity, mobility, and roaming

  • Redo every item missed in weeks 1 through 4 and write the correct fact behind each miss

  • Re-derive AP count and channel plan for two new scenarios in under 20 minutes each

  • Explain CAPWAP operation, roaming types, and 802.1X from memory in a 10-minute teach-back for each

  • Close every open weak-area item to at least 90% retention on retest

Your checkpoint

Weak-area log with all items retested to 90% or better, plus two timed design exercises completed inside the time limit

Week 8

Wireless fundamentals and RF principles & Wireless design and site survey concepts & Cisco wireless architectures and deployment models & Client connectivity, mobility, and roaming & Wireless security and policy & Wireless operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting

  • Complete two timed 90-question mixed practice sets under exam time pressure

  • Review every missed item and record the correct fact and the reason for the miss

  • Recite the domain weight map and convert it into a per-domain time budget for exam day

  • Condense all eight weeks of notes into a single review sheet you can read in 20 minutes

Your checkpoint

Two practice scores at 85% or higher and a one-page final review sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score 80% or higher on a 25-question quiz covering domains 1 and 2, with 100% accuracy on the RF calculation items

Week 4: Score 80% or higher on a 60-question mixed set covering domains 1 through 4, and correctly order the full client join sequence from memory

Week 6: Score 80% or higher on a 40-question set covering domains 5 and 6, and complete the troubleshooting runbook with all 10 symptoms assigned ordered checks

Week 8: Score 85% or higher on both timed 90-question practice sets, with no domain scored below 75%