Question 770
During follow-up testing at a regional research campus, engineers review a previously reported fault: Clients associate and authenticate promptly but require many seconds to acquire DHCP leases after a VLAN migration. Which observation confirms resolution rather than an unrelated improvement?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Lease acquisition completes within the intended SLE after DHCP path correction. This directly checks the outcome of the chosen remediation and confirms the problem was not merely hidden. The diagnostic issue was: address assignment is a separate connection-stage dependency following successful authentication.
Incorrect Answers
A sampled affected user connects end to end and the DHCP stage SLE recovers. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—an engineer closes a client connection incident after an AP returns online, though the users' DHCP failures continue—but does not validate recovery from clients associate and authenticate promptly but require many seconds to acquire DHCP leases after a VLAN migration.
Client-stage measurements fall within target after the identified association, authentication or DHCP issue is corrected. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a campus operations team reports green AP uptime while many clients exceed the acceptable wireless Time to Connect target—but does not validate recovery from clients associate and authenticate promptly but require many seconds to acquire DHCP leases after a VLAN migration.
User experience improves when peak-channel contention falls at matched client load. This would demonstrate a different scenario was fixed—a high-density WLAN reports unacceptable throughput while per-client RSSI and AP cloud connections remain normal—but does not validate recovery from clients associate and authenticate promptly but require many seconds to acquire DHCP leases after a VLAN migration.