Question 650
The WLAN team at a retail distribution center has addressed this issue: A higher-power Mist AP repeatedly reboots after connecting to a switchport that supplies insufficient PoE power. Which measurable observation would MOST convincingly demonstrate successful remediation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Power negotiation meets the AP requirements and reboot events stop under load. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: an underpowered wired uplink can destabilize a wireless AP regardless of its RF settings.
Incorrect Answers
The AP obtains management connectivity and user VLANs remain correctly separated. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a wireless AP is installed on a trunk that erroneously presents the management VLAN tagged instead of the required local native VLAN—but does not validate recovery from a higher-power Mist AP repeatedly reboots after connecting to a switchport that supplies insufficient PoE power.
Each customer's admins can access only their permitted organization and sites. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—two distinct legal customers share a Mist organization even though their administrators require a hard tenant boundary—but does not validate recovery from a higher-power Mist AP repeatedly reboots after connecting to a switchport that supplies insufficient PoE power.
Guest traffic follows the intended isolated Eth1 path and management remains on the approved interface. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—an AP's second Ethernet port is configured for WLAN breakout but connects to the same unrestricted network as its management link—but does not validate recovery from a higher-power Mist AP repeatedly reboots after connecting to a switchport that supplies insufficient PoE power.