Question 130
The WLAN team at a stadium complex has addressed this issue: An employee laptop's WLAN disconnects whenever it crosses a security zone that requires a different layer-three address. Which measurable observation would MOST convincingly demonstrate successful remediation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
An application session remains functional during the planned inter-AP and network-boundary walk test. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: rF roaming alone does not guarantee preservation of network-layer addressing and sessions.
Incorrect Answers
Contractors reach the approved service only, and attempts toward employee networks are denied. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a contractor WLAN is bridged to the internal employee network despite its security purpose being restricted external access—but does not validate recovery from an employee laptop's WLAN disconnects whenever it crosses a security zone that requires a different layer-three address.
The scanner associates on its supported band and has only its intended network access. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—an administrator sets the WLAN to a 5 GHz-only band even though a required industrial barcode scanner supports only 2.4 GHz—but does not validate recovery from an employee laptop's WLAN disconnects whenever it crosses a security zone that requires a different layer-three address.
Authorized devices connect with the new key and the retired key is rejected across target APs. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a WPA2 WLAN's local PSK is rotated in the Mist portal but field devices still authenticate with an old secret on disconnected APs—but does not validate recovery from an employee laptop's WLAN disconnects whenever it crosses a security zone that requires a different layer-three address.