Question 750
The WLAN team at a large university has addressed this issue: A guest portal authorizes users indefinitely because a technician never set the requested short visit expiration. Which measurable observation would MOST convincingly demonstrate successful remediation?
Explanation
Correct Answer
A test guest loses authorization after the configured visit period while valid sessions remain usable. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: portal enrollment without time-bound authorization can leave stale guest access.
Incorrect Answers
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 guest portal authorizes users indefinitely because a technician never set the requested short visit expiration.
Unverified guests remain unauthenticated during a simulated portal outage. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a guest authentication service is down and a configured bypass option silently authorizes new guests even though policy requires fail-closed access—but does not validate recovery from a guest portal authorizes users indefinitely because a technician never set the requested short visit expiration.
The test guest sees the current approved terms and completes authorization only after the specified step. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a corporate-owned custom guest portal never displays the required acceptable-use terms after a template update—but does not validate recovery from a guest portal authorizes users indefinitely because a technician never set the requested short visit expiration.