Question 10
During follow-up testing at a metropolitan office, engineers review a previously reported fault: A branch employee sees the corporate SSID in scan results but the helpdesk declares the WLAN fully operational without attempting authentication. Which observation confirms resolution rather than an unrelated improvement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A representative station authenticates, obtains an approved address and reaches its permitted corporate service. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: a beacon advertisement is not evidence of end-to-end WLAN service readiness.
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 a branch employee sees the corporate SSID in scan results but the helpdesk declares the WLAN fully operational without attempting authentication.
An application session remains functional during the planned inter-AP and network-boundary walk test. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—an employee laptop's WLAN disconnects whenever it crosses a security zone that requires a different layer-three address—but does not validate recovery from a branch employee sees the corporate SSID in scan results but the helpdesk declares the WLAN fully operational without attempting authentication.
A test guest loses authorization after the configured visit period while valid sessions remain usable. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a guest portal authorizes users indefinitely because a technician never set the requested short visit expiration—but does not validate recovery from a branch employee sees the corporate SSID in scan results but the helpdesk declares the WLAN fully operational without attempting authentication.