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IEEE WCET® EXAMINATION AREAS OF EXPERTISE
The IEEE WCET® examination consists of questions in several different areas of expertise. A short description of these areas and the examination weightings (the percentage of questions allocated to each area of expertise) are presented below.
18%-22% Area 1 - RF Engineering, Propagation, and Antennas: evaluate system performance and reliability; calculate path loss; evaluate the effects of different fading models and empirical path loss models; calculate and evaluate the effects on the received signal of path-related impairments; determine parameters related to antennas or antenna arrays; generate and evaluate coverage and interference prediction maps; develop procedure to optimize the coverage of a radio; make RF system measurements.
18%-22% Area 2 - Wireless Access Technologies: analyze building blocks, multiple access, mobility management, and spectrum implications in wireless access system design; analyze design considerations to optimize capacity/coverage; design a wireless access system; analyze the required bandwidth for a wireless system and tradeoffs; analyze wireless access technology standards, their features, and evolution.
18%-22% Area 3 - Network and Service Architecture: analyze service platforms, IP addressing schemes for various technologies; design and test quality of service (QoS); select and test a load-balancing scheme; analyze IP routing, ad hoc routing, and mesh protocols; perform capacity planning, error tracking, and trace analysis; analyze the evolution of mobile networks to enable IP multimedia.
11%-15% Area 4 - Network Management and Security: design a fault monitoring system and a performance monitoring system; develop/specify types and methods of alarm reporting; compute availability and reliability metrics; assess the potential impacts of known security attacks; plan corresponding solutions to known security attacks.
6%-8% Area 5 - Facilities Infrastructure: determine power consumption; analyze electrical protection requirements and design the electrical protection layout for a wireless telecommunications facility; determine the required antennas for the facility and their positions; develop a specification for the required structure for a wireless base station facility; determine the required cable, antennas, and materials to implement an in-building wireless network; evaluate equipment compliance with industry standards, codes, and site requirements.
6%-8% Area 6 - Agreements, Standards, Policies, and Regulations: assess service and equipment quality; prepare specifications for purchasing services and equipment and evaluate the responses; verify compliance with regulatory requirements; select and analyze frequency assignments; perform standardized homologation tests as required by regulatory or standardization bodies; evaluate compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements; perform conformance/interoperability analyses of systems and components; analyze the use of licensed vs. unlicensed spectrum; obtain licenses and permits.
8%-12% Area 7 - Fundamental Knowledge: apply basic concepts related to electrical engineering, communications systems, general engineering management.
Examinations are reviewed by a panel of IEEE WCET® subject matter experts to ensure that the questions are current and reflect the published test specifications.
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