Question 510
During follow-up testing at an electronics assembly plant, engineers review a previously reported fault: A department assumes one AP's configured SSID guarantees every neighboring AP uses identical security despite site overrides. Which observation confirms resolution rather than an unrelated improvement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Representative APs advertise compatible authentication and VLAN settings across the coverage area. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: per-site and per-device settings can differ even when SSID names match.
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 department assumes one AP's configured SSID guarantees every neighboring AP uses identical security despite site overrides.
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 a department assumes one AP's configured SSID guarantees every neighboring AP uses identical security despite site overrides.
Guest packets traverse the central enforcement path and fail to reach prohibited internal resources. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a large Mist WLAN sends guest traffic through local breakout when security policy requires central inspection—but does not validate recovery from a department assumes one AP's configured SSID guarantees every neighboring AP uses identical security despite site overrides.