Question 170
After a change at an enterprise office, the original incident was: A crowded office uses 40 MHz channels throughout 2.4 GHz and experiences severe overlap with neighboring APs. Which evidence BEST verifies that the specific failure has been corrected?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Spectrum and client metrics show less adjacent-channel energy and better retry behavior after redesign. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: the narrow 2.4 GHz band cannot accommodate widespread nonoverlapping 40 MHz cells.
Incorrect Answers
The radio vacates the radar-affected DFS channel and resumes service on a permitted replacement. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a hospital complains that an outdoor 5 GHz AP disappears from a channel after a detected weather-radar event—but does not validate recovery from a crowded office uses 40 MHz channels throughout 2.4 GHz and experiences severe overlap with neighboring APs.
All APs operate only on locally authorized 6 GHz channels within applicable power limits. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a new 6 GHz SSID is advertised in a country where the proposed channel is not permitted by local regulations—but does not validate recovery from a crowded office uses 40 MHz channels throughout 2.4 GHz and experiences severe overlap with neighboring APs.
Controlled tests distinguish capacity improvements under contention from merely renamed radio capabilities. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—an engineer attributes a wireless throughput increase entirely to moving from 802.11ac to 802.11ax without checking channel utilization—but does not validate recovery from a crowded office uses 40 MHz channels throughout 2.4 GHz and experiences severe overlap with neighboring APs.