Wi-Fi Interview Questions

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What is a WiFi Access point ?

What is the client authentication process ?
What are the difference between Beacon and Probe Response ?
What is a Beacon ?
What is TIM and DTIM?
How many channels are there in 2Ghz,5Ghz,6Ghz ?
What are the differences between 2Ghz,5Ghz,6Ghz?
How many DFS and Non DFS channels in 5Ghz ?
What the main principles for Troubleshooting WIFI Issues ?
checklist for Troubleshooting WLAN Issues ?
How do you Troubleshoot OSI layer ? In each layer how do you troubleshoot ?
What is a PoE? If an AP doesn't get power what will you do ?
What does Tx and Rx indicate ?
What is Latency?
What is Jitter?
How do you run Iperf TCP and UDP traffic ?
TCP Dump and its commands ?
What are the differences between 11n, 11ac,11ax,11be ?
What are the differences between Hub, Router and Switch ?
What are the Topologies we discussed? Infra mode, RE Mode, Bridge mode, Mesh mode?
How do you setup your AP/ Router in Lab ?
What are the Three pillars of WiFi security ?
What are the three enforces of WiFi security ?
Differences between WPA,WPA2,WPA3 ?
What is 4 way handshake process ?
What are the differences between TCP, UDP ?
What are Passive and Active Scanning? Which one is best ?
How many bytes in IPv4 address ?
What are the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 ?
What is the DHCP process ?
How do you configure Static IP address ?
What were the common issues which we will face in DHCP server ?
What is Subnet and DNS ?
What are the packets exchange in Open system authentication ? auth req,res, asoc
req and res
What are the packets exchange in PSK? Auth Req, AP sends challenge text message,
client encrypt challenge text and send to ap, ap decrypt text
What happens when you enter wrong password while connecting to Wi-Fi network? ->
Only 2-way handshake is observed.
Can we sent the PTK over air from Client to AP or AP to client ?
What are the messages will you see when you enter the right password?
802.11n,ac,ax enhancement and features
What are the main reasons for disconnections?
Reasons for performance issues?
How do you troubleshooting Security issues in PSK ?
About Wireshark?
Deauth packet : Which packet we will see when we changed the Encryption of the AP
from WPA2 to WPA3-> The current client got disconnected and we can see the Deauth
packet in captures, Reason Code 2: Previous Authentication no longer Valid
Deauth packet : Unspecified Reason- This reason code was generated when we simply
turned off our AP and then turned it back on
Disassociated due to inactivity- This reason code was seen when a client connected
to AP was powered off due to battery drain.
Disassoc packet : Disassociated when sending station is leaving (or has left) BSS-
This Reason code was observed when a client is connected to AP and SSID was
Modified
Deauth packet : De-Authenticated because sending station is leaving (or has left)
IBSS or ESS.We observed this reason code when we physically disconnected our client
device from the AP and also when we more away from the AP’s Range
Deauth packet : When Wrong Password was Provided when connected a client, we
Observed this reason code : 4-Way Handshake Timeout
Deauth packet : IEEE 802.1x Authentication Failed This reason code is observed When
we provide wrong certs when trying connect a client via RADIUS
To capture the packets of the current network interface: tcpdump
To capture packets from a specific network interface: tcpdump -i [interface_name]
Display neighbour table: ip neigh show
Sar : monitor CPU usage, Memory utilization, I/O devices consumption, Network
monitoring, Disk usage
What is Frequency and BW ?
What is OFDM, OFDMA, MUMIMO, Downlink and Uplink MUMIMO, Downlink and Uplink
OFDMA ?
What is DFS?
What is Modem? Router? Switch? Hub?
What are the differences between Hub, Router and Switch ?
How do you setup your AP/ Router in Lab ?
How do you Flash new build in Access point ?
What are the Three pillars of WiFi security ?
What are the Three enforces of WiFI security ?
What is the difference between Personal security and Enterprise security ?
What is open and shared key authentication ?
What is a Key ?
What are the differences between WEP,WPA,WPA2,WPA3 ?
What are fields we will see in RSN information ?
What is a Radius Server ?
802.1x Process ?
802.1x connection handshake in wireless capture ?
Does Open security/WPA has RSN element ?
Does WPA2 personal/ Enterprise and WPA3 mode security has RSN information ?
What are the packet exchanges in WPA/WPA2 ?
What are the packet exchanges in WPA3?
What are the packet exchanges in Open system authentication ?
What are the packet exchanges in Shared key authentication ?
What are the packet exchanges in WEP ?
What are the differences between TCP, UDP ?
Which protocol is better: TCP or UDP?
Default port numbers for SSH, HTTP, DHCP, Telnet?
What are Passive and Active Scanning? Which one is best ?
What is the difference between IPv4 and IPv6 ?
What were the common issues which we will face in DHCP server ?
What is a subnet mask?
What are 802.11 Frame types ?
What is Wireshark ? How do you capture packets ?
Wireshark Filters ?
What happens when you enter wrong password while connecting to Wi-Fi network? ->
Only 2-way handshake is observed.
Can we sent the PTK over air from Client to AP or AP to client ?
What are the messages will you see when you enter the right password?
To capture packets from a specific network interface: tcpdump -i [interface_name]
Display neighbour table: ip neigh show
Sar : monitor CPU usage, Memory utilization, I/O devices consumption, Network
monitoring, Disk usage
Enhancements and Features of 802.11n,ac,ax
WLAN Testing areas ?
Is Probe response is broadcast or unicast ?
What are the main reasons for client disconnections? Supplicant credential
problems ?
What are the primary reasons for Performance issues ?
How do you troubleshoot 802.1x issues ?
Troubleshoot security related issues in PSK :
what is the raw data rate for 802.11a -> 54 Mbps
What is data rate for 802.11b ->11 Mbps
What are things will you check If you did not receive internet for AP
How do you take SSH ?
Lets say If you have multiple AP’s which you need to take console from single
windows machine. How do you connect and take console.
Suppose If your SSID’s are not getting scan at the client side what are the things
you will check ?
Suppose If you done reboot and your AP doesnot come up online how will you recover
your AP to come back online ?
How do you check Tx power which you configured in AP?
How do you check the channel and bandwith whether its configured or not in AP?
Lets say you configured 2Ghz radio in your AP but its not reflecting in AP using
the command what are the things you will check ?
If you want to check the IP of client device, RSSI, Channel and BW how do you go
and check ?
Suppose if your AP is not receiving power, what are the things will you check?
What is a phy layer ?
How much Frequency Spectrum available in each band ?
Channel band width ?
What is a wave, wavelength , frequency, phase , amplitude
What is modulation ?
What are different types of Multiple access techniques ?
What are different types of QAM Rates ?
What is RSSI , SNR ?
What is OFDM, MIMO ?
WIFI Rates across the generations ?
What is Spatial Stream ?
What is the MCS table and what are its data rates for 11n,11c,11ax,11be. What are
the 5 variables which we discussed in L1 ?
What are the sub layers in Phy layer and Data link Layer?
OSI Layers ?
What is SSID and BSSID ?
Concept of Data transfer and Retries ?
What is DFS ?
What is WLAN Roaming ?
What are the fields in 802.11 frame format ?
What are the Frame types and subtypes ?
What is Beacon frame what are its fixed and tagged parameters ?
What are the main fields you will see in probe req/response frame ?
What are the main fields you will see in auth req/res frame ?
What are the main fields will you see in assoc req/res frames ?
What are the main fields will you see in Reassoc frames ?
What are the main fields will you seen deauth/disassoc frames?
What are the fields you will see in RTS and CTS frames , Data frames ?
802.11k concept ?
802.11v concept?
802.11r concept?
What is new in 11 ax ?
QAM? 1024 QAM ?
What is concept of OFDMA with uplink and downlink ?
What is MU-MUMIMO with uplink and downlink ?
What is BSS coloring ?
What is Target wakeup time (TWT) ?
What is new 6Ghz spectrum used for unlicensed use ?
What is AFC ?
WIFI 6E use cases ?
What are new WIFI 6E features ?

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