Question 630
After a change at a coastal resort, the original incident was: Two distant clients cannot hear each other but both transmit to the same AP, causing collisions during peak use. Which evidence BEST verifies that the specific failure has been corrected?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Collision-related retries decrease after a controlled protection and RF adjustment. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: carrier sensing can fail between mutually hidden stations using the same receiver.
Incorrect Answers
Survey results identify whether airtime sharing or partially overlapping emissions caused the impairment. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a WLAN team confuses a neighboring AP's valid same-channel transmissions with adjacent-channel interference from an overlapping channel—but does not validate recovery from two distant clients cannot hear each other but both transmit to the same AP, causing collisions during peak use.
The scanner associates using its supported PHY on the intended 2.4 GHz service without claiming 6 GHz support. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a warehouse survey labels a legacy 802.11g-only scanner as an 802.11ax client and expects 6 GHz connectivity—but does not validate recovery from two distant clients cannot hear each other but both transmit to the same AP, causing collisions during peak use.
Voice latency and jitter meet service targets while bulk transfers continue at controlled rates. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a client sends bursts of small voice frames but a large best-effort download saturates shared airtime—but does not validate recovery from two distant clients cannot hear each other but both transmit to the same AP, causing collisions during peak use.