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An engineer must perform a pre deployment site survey for a new building in a high-security area. The design must provide a primary signal RSSI of -65 dBm for the clients. Which two requirements complete this design? (Choose two.)
A. HVAC access
B. WLC model
C. site access
D. number of clients
E. AP model
An enterprise network administrator is asked to set up an experimental WLAN for a collaboration project with a local service provider. The WLAN must be anchored to a WLC in the service provider data center using legacy mobility mode. After the configurations are completed on the WLCs and the firewalls in the path, the data path mobility tunnel is failing to come up. What should be performed by the administrator to debug the issue?
A. Establish a Telnet connection from a local PC to the firewall on port 97.
B. Use the eping command on the WLC.
C. Establish a Telnet connection from a local PC to the firewall on port 16666.
D. Use the mping command on the WLC.
Guest anchoring is configured for a newly created SSID for a company. It has been noticed that the mobility tunnels are not up and that MPING fails from your foreign WLC to the anchor WLC. What is the reason that it is failing?
A. A rule is needed at the firewall to allow UDP port 16666 for communication to work.
B. A rule is needed at the firewall to allow UDP port 97 for communication to work.
C. A rule is needed at the firewall to allow TCP port 97 for communication to work.
D. A rule is needed at the firewall to allow TCP port 16666 for communication to work.
What is the attenuation value of a human body on a wireless signal?
A. 3 dB
B. 4 dB
C. 6 dB
D. 12 dB
An engineer is designing a network deployment for a college with six buildings. Each building must have a WLC located in the IDF to support the APs. The wireless clients should be able to roam between the APs and the controllers. Which type of wireless architecture should be used?
A. cloud
B. autonomous
C. centralized
D. distributed
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer must design a mobility group that has these requirements: • The mobility group must consist of five WLCs. • All WLCs must run software version 8.0 or later. • The WLCs must connect via an IPv4 network. • Two of the WLCs must be in an SSO high availability pair. Which two configurations must be included in the design? (Choose two.)
A. All the WLCs must be of the same model or type.
B. Only WLCs in an SSO high availability pair must use the same virtual IP address.
C. The WLAN SSID must be consistent across all the WLCs.
D. All the WLCs must run the same software version.
E. Each WLC must use the same mobility domain name.
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer determined that during a recent controller failure, some APs did not failover to their secondary controller based on the network design, which has sufficient licenses for all APs. The controllers are not in a mobility group but have A records for their hostnames in DNS. Which setting needs to be addressed?
A. The controllers must be in the same mobility group.
B. The secondary controller IP address is incorrect.
C. DNS hostnames are required to be FQDN.
D. The AP failover priority was not set high enough.
A customer has determined that aesthetics is a primary concern for their upcoming guest deployment. Which design consideration can be leveraged to address this concern?
A. Paint the access point to cover the LED from being noticeable.
B. Use enclosures to hide the wireless infrastructure in the surrounding environment.
C. Use AIR-AP-BRACKET-1 to allow for greater mounting locations
D. Deploy environmentally friendly cabling components to blend into the environment.
When a wireless network is designed for location services, how many APs must be heard by each location-ready AP at a signal level of -75 dBm or better?
A. three APs
B. no more than three APs
C. two APs
D. at least four APs
Which CLI command does an engineer use to validate that the redundancy peer of a Stateful Switchover pair of controllers is up and connected?
A. rping
B. ping
C. eping
D. mping
An engineer is working for a manufacturing company that has a centralized deployment model. Guests at headquarters need wireless access for presentations, demonstrations, and sharing of information. The engineer must provide external users with secure guest access by connecting to anchor controllers on the DMZ. Auto-Anchor Mobility has been selected in the mobility group to accomplish it. Both anchors are configured as part of the mobility group for HQ. Which design approach ensures that clients connect to the primary controller first and are pushed to the secondary if the primary fails?
A. Set the Anchor priority for the primary controller to 1.
B. Set the Anchor priority for the secondary controller to 1.
C. Configure ECMP but weigh the cost to be higher to go to the primary.
D. Configure ECMP but weigh the cost to be higher to go to the secondary.
A customer has a single anchor WLC named Anchor A. Anchor A is in a DMZ and provides guest access. The customer wants to deploy an additional anchor controller named Anchor B to provide redundancy if Anchor A fails. Which design approach should be taken for the guest WLAN priority on the foreign WLC for each anchor WLC?
A. Set Anchor A to priority 3 and Anchor B to priority 3.
B. Set Anchor A to priority 3 and Anchor B to priority 1.
C. Set Anchor A to priority 1 and Anchor B to priority 1.
D. Set Anchor A to priority 1 and Anchor B to priority 3.
An engineer must design a WLAN that can handle voice traffic and location-based services. Which two design features enable both services to function properly? (Choose two.)
A. Use every channel possible in 5 GHz.
B. Put APs in corners of each floor for triangulation.
C. Have a 15% overlap of cell coverage.
D. Use every channel possible in 2.4 GHz.
E. Have a 25% overlap of cell coverage.
Refer to the exhibit. A network engineer has identified that during a recent controller failure, several APs failed over to the tertiary controller instead of the secondary controller. The configuration from one of the APs is provided. Which design consideration led to the issue?
A. The secondary controller was at capacity.
B. The secondary controller is an SSO configuration.
C. The tertiary controller is an HA-SKU controller, so it took priority.
D. The tertiary controller is in the same subnet as the primary controller.
Refer to the exhibit. During a post Mesh deployment survey, an engineer notices that frame collisions occur when MAP-1 and MAP-3 talk to RAP-2. Which type of issue does the engineer need to address in the design?
A. co-channel interference
B. hidden node
C. backhaul latency
D. exposed node
A customer has a Cisco wireless network that supports VoWLAN services. The customer wants supported voice clients to receive roaming recommendations and suggestions from APs. This functionality must not impact non-VoWLAN clients. What should be enabled on the VoWLAN SSID?
A. 802.11r Fast Transition
B. 802.11k neighbor lists
C. CCKM with 802.1X
D. 802.11v BSS Transition Management
A wireless engineer is designing a wireless network to support real time applications over wireless. Which IEEE protocol must the engineer enable on the WLC so that neighbor list radio management packets are sent to the wireless devices?
A. 802.11w
B. 802.11r
C. 802.11i
D. 802.11k
Campus users report a poor wireless experience. An engineer investigating the issue notices that in high-density areas, the wireless clients fail to switch the AP to which are automatically connected. This sticky client behavior is causing roaming issues. Which feature must the engineer configure?
A. optimized roaming
B. load balancing and band select
C. Layer 3 roaming
D. Layer 2 roaming
A customer has noticed that Client Band Select is enabled and no clients are utilizing the 5 GHz band. Which three parameters must be met to ensure that wireless clients use the 5 GHz band? (Choose three.)
A. Ensure that channel bonding is enabled on the WLAN.
B. Ensure that the co-channel interference has not exceeded גˆ’85 dBm.
C. Ensure that the UNII-2 extended channels are enabled on the 802.11a radios.
D. Ensure that the client is receiving RSSI above the minimum band select RSSI threshold.
E. Ensure that the client is dual-band capable.
F. Ensure that the WLAN has 802.11a enabled.
An engineer has successfully configured high availability and SSO using two Cisco 5508 Wireless LAN Controllers. The engineer can access the Active Primary WLC, but the Secondary Standby WLC is not accessible. Which two methods allow access to the standby unit? (Choose two.)
A. via the console connection
B. SSH to the redundancy management interface of the primary WLC
C. SSH to the service port interface
D. SSH to the virtual interface of the secondary WLC
E. SSH to the management interface of the primary WLC
An engineer is implementing a wireless design for a service provider. The design includes a Catalyst 9800, a stack of two Catalyst 9300X-48HX switches, and 9166 APs. Each AP must be named using the Floor-439412509-01X sting where X is the area number. The engineer wants to connect the APs to the switch stack using POE. How many APs must the engineer connect to the stack so the APs run using full functionalities?
A. all ports on switch 2 of the stack
B. all ports on switch 1 of the stack
C. all ports of the switches
D. half ports per switch
A rapidly expanding company has tasked their network engineer with wirelessly connecting a new cubicle area with Cisco workgroup bridges until the wired network is complete. Each of 42 new users has a computer and VoIP phone. How many APs for workgroup bridging must be ordered to keep cost at a minimum while connecting all devices?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
An engineer configured the optimized client roaming on Cisco WLC with an RSSI threshold of 72dBm. Clients report frequent disconnections. What must be configured for the AP to guide the client to a better AP?
A. Enable BSS transition at the radio level and optimized roaming on the SSID.
B. Disable coverage hole detection on the SSID and enable BSS transition on the SSID.
C. Disable optimized roaming and enable 802.11v support on the SSID.
D. Enable BSS transition on the SSID and optimized roaming at the radio level.
What is the recommended cell overlap when designing a wireless network for Cisco Hyperlocation?
A. 20%
B. 30%
C. 40%
D. 50%
During a wireless network design, a customer requires wireless coverage on the perimeter of a building but also wants to minimize signal leakage from the wireless network. Which antenna should be used to accomplish this design?
A. omnidirectional
B. patch
C. monopole
D. dipole
Refer to the exhibit. A company is designing a Cisco wireless solution that has two WLCs named WLC1 and WLC2 and several APs. An AP named AP12 is a critical AP and is provisioned to be installed in hallway 6, which is located just outside the office of the company director and must always connect to WLC1. Which priority level must be incorporated in the design for AP12?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
A customer is running a guest WLAN with a foreign/export-anchor setup. There is one anchor WLC in the US and two in Europe. Anchor WLC priorities are used to prefer local anchors. During a routine network audit, it is discovered that a large number of guest client sessions in the US are anchored to the WLCs in Europe. Which reason explains this behavior?
A. The foreign WLC failed and recovered.
B. The US anchor WLC failed and recovered.
C. The US anchor WLC is anchored to itself with a priority value of zero.
D. The anchor WLC is in the same mobility group.
An engineer is upgrading the legacy APs to 802.11ac Wave 2 capable APs. The existing gigabit uplinked switches provide 802.3at. Which switch limitation is a concern?
A. interface throughput
B. high availability
C. collision domains
D. output power
An engineer is performing a predictive wireless design for a medical treatment environment, which requires data and voice services. What is the minimum requirement for the design?
A. overlapping גˆ’72 dBm coverage from two access points
B. continuous גˆ’67 dBm coverage from one access point
C. continuous גˆ’72 dBm coverage from one access point
D. overlapping גˆ’67 dBm coverage from two access points
During a client roaming event, which device is responsible for communicating the new Layer 2 EID mapping of a wireless supplicant to the fabric domain?
A. WLC
B. BN
C. CP2
D. CP1
A wireless engineer is getting ready to perform a predictive site survey. The new network needs to support data and voice over wireless. Which two Cisco recommendations should be considered for the design? (Choose two.)
A. Set -19 dBm of separation between APs on the same channel.
B. Use the 5 GHz radio band due to 40 MHz bandwidth capability.
C. Use the 5 GHz radio band due to the 24 non-overlapping channels.
D. Set the cell boundary to -67 dBm.
E. Set the cell overlap to 15%
A company has 10 access point licenses available on their backup Cisco WLC, and their primary Cisco WLC is at full capacity. 5 access points are set to high failover priority and 7 access points are set to critical failover priority. During a failure, not all critical access points failed over to the backup Cisco WLC. Which configuration is the cause of this issue?
A. The high priority access point is oversubscribed.
B. network ap-priority is set to enable.
C. The critical priority access point count is oversubscribed.
D. network ap-priority is set to disable.
A customer has a centralized wireless deployment with N+1 high availability and few open authentication SSIDs configured. After failover, all APs are broadcasting all SSIDs, but the clients are assigned IP addresses from a different subnet. The WLANs on both WLCs are configured with the same dynamic interfaces. Which feature must be incorporated in the wireless design of the second controller?
A. RF Profile
B. AP Groups
C. VLAN Select
D. AAA Override
A customer has two Cisco wireless controllers named WLC-A and WLC-B. Each controller is in a different building on a campus. The WLCs have different Layer 3 interfaces and broadcast the same SSIDs from their respective APs. Users must remain connected to the same VLAN and maintain their IP addresses during roaming from the APs that are attached to WLC-A and WLC B. Which action accomplishes the requirement?
A. Create a mobility group between the two WLCs to allow auto-anchoring.
B. Create an SSO cluster to ensure that client sessions sync between WLCs.
C. Enable 802.11r on each SSID on both WLCs to allow caching of the PMK.
D. Enable AP groups using the same name on both WLCs for each group.
A network engineer is retrofitting an existing building wired with Category 5e with Cisco Aironet 3800 Series APs and mGig switches. Which cable length allows for 5G operation?
A. 70 m
B. 120 m
C. 130 m
D. 150 m
Which non-Wi-Fi interferer can be identified by Metageek Chanalyzer?
A. PDAs
B. jammers
C. smartphones
D. printers
A customer has a central Cisco WLC that manages APs in FlexConnect mode. The wireless infrastructure supports multiple small branches. One branch deploys new CCX wireless phones that are authenticated by a central Cisco ISE via PEAP/IMSCHAPv2, and traffic is switched locally. The customer must reduce the number of full authentication requests and optimize roaming for the new phones. Which action accomplishes the requirement?
A. Enable CCKM on the voice SSID and add APs to a FlexConnect group.
B. Enable Aironet IE on the voice SSID and add APs to an AP group.
C. Enable Aironet IE on the voice SSID and add APs to a FlexConnect group.
D. Enable CCKM on the voice SSID and add APs to an AP group.
An engineer is performing an active survey of a network that must support different types of mobile devices. The devices must be able to run an application that requires a minimum RF of 73 dBm. Which mobile device must be used for the survey?
A. one that has a receiver sensitivity of -70 dBm
B. one that has the lowest receiver sensitivity
C. one that has the most updated wireless card
D. one that has 802.11a wireless support
An engineer is setting up the WLC to support a high-density design for a lecture hall. The engineer must modify the existing high-density RF profile to obtain a smaller cell size. Also, the clients must connect to the nearest AP using the highest possible data rates. Which setting allows this design?
A. AP load balance
B. client distribution
C. power threshold
D. RX-SOP threshold
A customer called with a requirement that internal clients must be on different subnets depending on the building they are in. All APs are operating in local mode and will not be modified, and this is a single controller solution. Which design approach creates the desired result?
A. Create FlexConnect groups, place the access points in, and set the correct VLAN to SSID mapping based on location.
B. Create mobility anchors for the SSID, and on the controller under the internal SSID, create a foreign map to the desired VLAN based on location.
C. Create AP groups for each desired location, map the correct VLANs to the internal SSID, and add the APs for that location.
D. Create an SSID, place it to the desired VLAN under WLANs, and configure 802.1x in ISE to assign the correct VLAN based on the SSID from which the client is authenticating.
An engineer is designing a new wireless network. The network needs to meet these requirements: ✑ support a high wireless client concentration ✑ support data over wireless ✑ support voice over wireless ✑ avoid interference Which design approach should be taken?
A. 5 GHz frequency band with channel bonding, to support 40 MHz channels
B. 5 GHz frequency band without channel bonding, to support 20 MHz channels
C. 2.4 GHz frequency band without channel bonding, to support 20 MHz channels
D. 5 GHz frequency band with channel bonding, to support 80 MHz channels
Which three pieces of equipment are needed to conduct a fully measured wireless survey? (Choose three.)
A. PoE battery
B. spirit level
C. access point
D. tall tripod
E. goggles
F. ladder
An engineer is designing a mesh wireless network. The network must fulfill these requirements: • bridge mode APs must be used • WPA2-PSK • minimize wireless traffic tunneled to the WLC
A. bridge RAP
B. Flex + Bridge
C. FlexConnect
D. bridge MAP
A network engineer is troubleshooting connectivity issues between two WLCs running 8.x code in SSO mode and finds that the redundancy management heartbeat is failing. Which packet type must be filtered for heartbeats when taking a capture to verify communication?
A. RSTP
B. UDP
C. TCP
D. ICMP
Refer to the exhibit. A WLC SSO pair is set up. Which failure scenario causes a split-brain scenario?
A. RP is down.
B. Two distribution ports on the active WLC are down.
C. VSL is down.
D. One distribution port on the active WLC is down.
An engineer is conducting a Layer 2 site survey. Which type of client must the engineer match to the survey?
A. best client available
B. phone client
C. normal client
D. worst client available
A high-density wireless network is designed. Which Cisco WLC configuration setting must be incorporated in the design to encourage clients to use the 5 GHz spectrum?
A. Band Select
B. RRM
C. Cisco Centralized Key Management
D. load balancing
A network engineer is working on a design for a wireless network that must support data, voice, and location services. To support these services, which access point placement must the engineer use?
A. corner only
B. perimeter and corner
C. perimeter only
D. indoor and outdoor
An engineer needs a wireless design to provide redundancy for APs at remote sites that are connected to Cisco 3504 Wireless LAN Controllers. The central Cisco 5520 Wireless LAN Controller supports 2000 APs and has 1975 access points associated to it. The engineer decides that not all APs at the remote sites must remain functional in the event of a failure. How does the engineer ensure that the most important access points at the remote sites remain online while not impacting the main site?
A. Enable Global AP Failover Priority, set the 1975 APs to a priority of “high”, and set the 25 most important APs at the remote sites to “critical”.
B. Enable AP Fallback Mode, set the 1975 APs to a priority of “high”, and set the 25 most important APs at the remote sites to “critical”.
C. Enable Global AP Failover Priority, leave the 1975 APs at the default priority, and set the most important APs at the remote sites to “low”.
D. Enable AP Fallback Mode, leave the 1975 APs at the default priority, and set the most important APs at the remote sites to “high”.
As part of a wireless site survey in a hospital, an engineer needs to identify potential Layer 1 interferers. In which two areas is the engineer most likely to find sources of 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz RF noise? (Choose two.)
A. magnetic resonance imaging
B. kitchen
C. Gamma Knife radiation treatment
D. X-ray radiography
E. patient room
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