Question 460
The team at an enterprise office has corrected this condition: A multi-floor office sees clients associate to distant APs because floors have large atrium openings and overlapping coverage. Which preventive practice BEST addresses the identified mechanism?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Conduct inter-floor surveys and roaming checks in atriums and open-floor buildings. This repeatable safeguard addresses the mechanism—rF coverage boundaries do not necessarily coincide with floor-plan boundaries—and reduces the chance that the specific fault recurs.
Incorrect Answers
Audit WMM settings before blaming hardware for unexpected feature downgrades. This protects against another issue—an engineer disables WMM to simplify configuration and then wonders why advanced high-throughput client behavior is degraded—but is not the most direct prevention for a multi-floor office sees clients associate to distant APs because floors have large atrium openings and overlapping coverage.
Evaluate both uplink and downlink margins when setting AP transmit power. This protects against another issue—a stadium deploys APs at maximum transmit power and then mobile clients struggle to send frames reliably back—but is not the most direct prevention for a multi-floor office sees clients associate to distant APs because floors have large atrium openings and overlapping coverage.
Plan seasonal obstruction clearance before commissioning outdoor RF links. This protects against another issue—a point-to-point wireless bridge loses reliability after seasonal foliage grows across its unobstructed installation path—but is not the most direct prevention for a multi-floor office sees clients associate to distant APs because floors have large atrium openings and overlapping coverage.