Wide Area Application Services for Field Engineers

The Wide Area Application Services for Field Engineers exam tests the field engineer candidate's knowledge and ability to implement a Cisco WAAS solution.

The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam.

Implement WAAS components of an ANS solution

• Perform a site survey including power, cooling, and space
• Determine appropriate IOS version and upgrade if necessary to meet requirements
• Configure and verify WAAS components
• Configure and verify router and switch configurations
• Use Setup Wizard to Configure and verify WAE network configurations, device modes, interception method, and license
• Configure and verify reporting and monitoring
• Configure and verify AAA and RBAC
• Configure and verify device group
• Configure and verify optimization policies
• Configure and verify file services acceleration
• Configure and verify license
• Configure and verify accelerators (including CIFS,HTTP/s,NFS,print,video,and MAPI)
• Configure and verify print services
• Configure and verify load balancing of WAE services
• Validate that WAAS deployment accelerates customer's applications
• Implement WAAS virtualization solution
• Implement WAAS Mobile solution

Troubleshoot a WAAS solution

• Troubleshoot poor performance in a WAAS solution
• Troubleshoot poor optimization in a WAAS solution
• Troubleshoot connectivity in a WAAS solution
• Troubleshoot management in a WAAS solution
• Troubleshoot high availability in a WAAS solution
• Troubleshoot application accelerators
• Troubleshoot WAAS Virtualization solution
• Troubleshoot WAAS Mobile solution

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