Designing Cisco Enterprise Wireless Networks (ENWLSD)
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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?
An engineer is performing an AP-on-a-stick survey and ¬nds that the 5 GHz channel overlap is too high when an appropriate number of APs are used for the density requirements. Which two actions during the survey reduce channel overlap? (Choose two.)
A customer has this wireless design at its main branch:
• two Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series wireless controllers named WLC-A and WLC-B in an N+1 configuration
• the same WLANs with different Layer 3 interfaces for each WLC
• 100APs in local mode
WLC-A manages the APs for a building named Building A. WLC-B manages the APs for a building named Building B. The customer wants to ensure that users can remain connected and retain their session state, including the IP address, when they move between buildings. How must this requirement be incorporated into the design?
A customer celled with a requirement that internal clients must be on different subnets depending on the building they are in, AH access points are operating in local mode and will not be modified, and this is a single controller solution. Which design approach creates the desired result?
Two cisco 5520 wireless LAN controllers are managing all access points throughout the network. The WLCs are in different locations to provide geographical redundancy a mobility group has been configured on both WLCs and has a UP status on both controllers. The Aps in location A are statically configured to use controller A as the primary and controller B as the secondary. If the WLC in location A goes offline. The Aps successfully join the WLC in location, but they do not fail over to their primary configured controller. Which configuration task fixes the issue?
Which design document contains detailed RF coverage maps, AP placement, and antenna orientation?
Where must the APs be mounted when used in a high-density wireless network to provide 6 dB to 20 dB of attenuation to a cell?
A wireless engineer is utilizing the voice readiness tool in Cisco Prime for a customer that wants to deploy Cisco IP phones. Which dBm range is the network inspected against?
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?
Which feature ensures seamless roaming between APs with no noticeable delay for voice clients?
Which UDP port numbers are used for exchange mobility packets in an AireOS wireless deployment?
A customer has two locations named building 1 and building 2 Each location has a Cisco wireless network with these components
Building 1
• 2 Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers in a high availability cluster
• 50 Cisco Catalyst 9100 APs
• Contractor SSID in VLAN 100
• Corporate SSID in VLAN 200
• mobility group configured to the building 2 WLCs
Building 2
• 2 Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers in a high availability cluster
• 20 Cisco Catalyst 9100 APs
• Contractor SSID in VLAN 300
• Corporate SSID in VLAN 400
• mobility group configured to the building 1 WLCs
The customer has a new security requirement mandating that all contractor SSID traffic must terminate on VLAN 100 on the building 1 WLCs for all locations. Which design approach must the engineer take?
An engineer must configure the virtual IP address on multiple controllers in a mobility group. Which rule must the engineer follows to ensure proper roaming?
A technician connects a Cisco Aironet 3700 Series access point to a switch and realizes that the AP is coming up with 3x3 MIMO. Which reason explains this behavior?
A wireless deployment in a high-density environment is being used by vendors to process credit card payment transactions via handheld mobile scanners. The scanners are having problems roaming between access points in the environment. Which feature on the wireless controller should have been incorporated in the design?
Which IEEE standard enables Fast BSS Transition (FT) for seamless roaming?
A customer requires fast secure roaming for Voice over WLAN. Which protocol should you
recommend?
A university has three campus locations and the main data center. Each campus location has a Cisco Catalyst 9800-40 WLC that manages 600 APs The data center has a Catalyst 9800-40 WLC, which serves as an N+1 backup for each campus WLC. A consulting engineer must install four additional Catalyst 9800-40 WLCs to serve as the high availability SSO pair for each campus, but only two have been approved due to budget restrictions. The new WLCs must be implemented using these requirements
• Data center WLC must always be available as N+1 backup to either campus WLC.
• Campus1 WLC must operate with zero downtime.
• In the event of multiple campus outages, the AP priority order is to support Campus3, Campus2. and then Campus1
• No APs on campus can be left stranded without a WLC in the event of an outage.
What design approach must the consulting engineer take?
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?
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.)
Refer to the exhibit.

What is the main reason why the Wi-Fi design engineer took a different approach than installing the APs in the offices, even though that installation provides better coverage?
An engineer must design and configure a wireless network for:
• pervasive coverage in an oil terminal
• casual web and email traffic
• 5 GHz
What is the best design?
While performing an AP-on-a-stick survey with a cell boundary of -67 dBm, an engineer is consistently reading SNR less than 15 dB in a particular area within the cell boundary. What is causing this issue?
An engineer must decide the cell overlap for a wireless voice deployment. Which Cisco measurement recommendation should be considered?
A customer requires that two wireless APs be installed in a reception area, in a historic building, the impact of the APs on the appearance of the reception area must be minimized. Which two AP antennas should be used? (Choose two.)
In a high-density stadium deployment, which two design considerations are most important?
An engineer must assess an existing company WLAN to determine the possibility for future IEEE 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless deployment. The existing WLAN is IEEE 802.11a/n and has IEEE 802.11n and 802. 11a clients. The engineer must advise the customer about support for these older clients on the new APs. What happens with client compatibility?
An engineer must create a multicampus architecture wireless design to accommodate 4500 access points for wireless data Which model controller the requirements to support all access points on one high availability controller setup?
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 network engineer is designing a new wireless network for a campus The network must include these requirements
• optimized performance
• avoid Interference
• availability in high-density areas
• roaming
Which two approaches must be taken? (Choose two.)
Which two factors influence the roaming decision of a wireless client? (Choose two.)
A university lecture hall has a Cisco wireless high-density network with this configuration:
• 5 GHz only
• 20-MHz channels
• UNII-1, UNII-2, and UNII2-E channels
• TPC minimum = 8
• TPC maximum = 14
The lecture hall is 200 feet by 100 feet and has 16 Cisco APs that use directional antennas. Which feature must be included in the design to mitigate and reduce high-channel utilization from rogue APs?
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?
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?
What is the recommended overlap percentage for 2.4 GHz coverage cells in a WLAN design?
An engineer is designing an outdoor mesh network to cover several sports fields. The core of the network is located in a building at the entrance of a sports complex. Which type of antenna should be used with the RAP for backhaul connectivity?
An engineer must produce a passive survey report. The coverage heat map shows the entire site with all signal levels. To see only the desired coverage, which action must the engineer take?
Which two considerations must a network engineer have when planning for voice over wireless roaming? (Choose two.)
A hospital wireless environment was designed with these characteristics:
• RF coverage
• better than -67 dBm in the 5 GHz spectrum
• RRM be used for DCA and TPC in the 2.4 GHz band
• RRM be used for DCA and TPC in the 5 GHz band
After deployment, why do many of the legacy 802.11b/g devices have difficulty maintaining connectivity?
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 customer has a centralized wireless deployment with N+1 high availability and few open authentication SSIDs configured. After fail over, 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?
Which frequency band provides the widest channel availability for enterprise WLANs?
Which two statements are correct about 5 GHz WLAN compared to 2.4 GHz? (Choose two.)
An engineer designed a new wireless network for an enterprise customer. The customer is concerned that some wireless features may not be available because the bill of materials has only Base and no WPlus licenses for the Cisco WLC version 8. What is the reason for the engineer to take this approach regarding the licenses?
A wireless network consultant must assess an existing wireless LAN controller. Which section must the consultant check before replacing the old APs with APs that are IEEE 802.11ac-capable?
A customer called with a requirement that internal clients must be on different subnets depending on the building they are in. All access points 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 wireless engineer is hired to design a network for a technology company. The company campus has four buildings and a warehouse with access points that provide full wireless coverage as well as a pair of WLCs located in the core of the network. Which type of wireless architecture is being used?
An engineer at a global enterprise organization must ensure that a mesh deployment has the highest number of channels available to the backhaul, regardless of region deployed, which design meets this requirement?
A customer has two Cisco 550B WLCs that manage all the access points in their network and provide N+1 redundancy and load balancing. The primary Cisco WLC has 60 licenses and the secondary Cisco WLC has 40. The customer wants to convert the N+1 model to an HA model and provide SSO. Configuration must be performed during a maintenance window. After performing all the configurations on both controllers, the config redundancy unit secondary command is issued on the secondary Cisco WLC and it fails. Which parameter needs to be in place to complete the configuration?
A network administrator at a large university with multiple campuses uses Cisco 9800 WLCs to manage their wireless network. Recently, the university deployed a new mobility group to Improve seamless roaming for users across different campuses. To validate that everything Is functioning correctly, which action should the administrator take to identify the reason why the data path Is active but the control path is down?
Refer to the exhibit. An engineer must design a mobility group that has these requirements:
• The mobility group must consist of two 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 customer deploys a new Cisco high-density wireless network within the open areas of a mall to provide free public wireless on 5 GHz. The existing mall tenants have their own wireless networks that are independently managed. Which design approach minimizes channel
utilization for the public network?
A wireless engineer is designing a wireless network to support real-time applications over wireless. Which IEEE protocol must the engineer enables on the WLC so that the number of packets that are exchanged between an access point and client are reduced and fast roaming occurs?
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?
Based on a wireless network design, an engineer configured a primary and secondary controller for their APs. A power interruption caused the primary Cisco WLC to go down, and, as expected, all APs joined the secondary controller. When the primary controller came back up, all the
APs remained joined to the secondary controller. Which approach must the engineer take for the APs to move back to the primary?
A medium-sized hospitality company with 50 hotels needs to upgrade the existing WLAN in each hotel to 802.11n. During the site surveys for each hotel, what needs to be taken into consideration when determining the locations for each AP?
An engineer must perform an assessment of a customer LAN for a future IEEE 802.11ac Wave 2 wireless deployment All access switches are Fast Ethernet-Capable only, and the wired infrastructure between existing APs and access switches is based on the CAT 6A standard. Which two actions provide maximum support of Cisco 3800 Series access points? (Choose two.)
An engineer is designing a wireless network that will support many different types of wireless clients. When conducting the survey, which client must be used to ensure a consistent experience for all of the wireless clients?
Which survey is performed after deployment to ensure coverage matches design requirements?
A network consultant must create a wireless design with these characteristics:
• Provide coverage in a single contiguous space.
• Support dual-band wireless coverage.
• Use nine APs for full coverage in a 5 GHz band.
What must the engineer do to mitigate co-channel interference and maintain coverage in 2.4 GHz?
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?
An enterprise is using a Cisco AireOS controller and Wi-Fi 6 APs. The controller is installed in the head office, and the employees primarily use Apple OS devices. The APs broadcast WLAN ENT-WLAN406558520-1 for the employees and a guest WLAN with similar naming. What needs to be enabled on the controller to optimize roaming?
A community bank has three campus locations and one HO with the data center operations Each campus location has tour Cisco Catalyst 9120 APs The data center has a Catalyst 9800 WLC with eight Catalyst 9120 APs. Poor WAN uplinks cause impacted branch AP and wireless client connectivity back to HO. and each campus location is now planned to have its own EWC controller based on C9120 AP to keep traffic local. This new design must accommodate these requirements:
• Guest WLAN will be routed locally.
• Employee WLAN must be authenticated 802.1x PEAP via HO data center ISE but can pass traffic locally once authenticated.
• HO WLC will be the primary backup WLC for each WLC.
Which design approach should the consulting engineer lake?
A customer uses a Cisco 5520 WLC that is connected via a single 10-GB interface to manage the wireless network. The wireless network
includes 500 APs for the campus network. The customer wants to add 300 APs and is concerned about traffic load and lack of redundancy. The purchase of a second controller is not an option. Which design approach mitigates the customer concerns?
Which statement about creating a mobility group is true, excluding mobility anchors?
What is the minimum recommended RSSI for designing a WLAN to support data applications?
An engineer is configuring a centralized set of controllers for separate facilities. Which two Cisco wireless architectures must be used to ensure flexible sizing of WLAN to VLAN mappings? (Choose two.)
A network engineer is configuring high availability on an access point. What is the maximum number of controllers that can be configured?
An engineer is designing a network deployment for a technology company. The company has four buildings with access points that must provide seamless wireless coverage and client roaming. The customer data center must have two WLCs and the core switches for the network. Which type of wireless architecture must be used?
An engineer must perform a predictive wireless survey to indicate the number of access points required. The engineer has created a new project and imported the floor plan. Which step must be taken next for accurate AP placement?
Which type of wireless survey involves physically walking the site and measuring signal strength
in real time with APs powered on?
An engineer must ensure that the wireless network can accomplish fast secure roaming by way of caching keys on the access points. Which key caching mechanism is enabled by default on a Cisco AireOS WLC?
An engineer is reducing the subnet size of the corporate WLAN by segmenting the VLAN into smaller subnets. Clients will be assigned a subnet by location. Which type of groups can the engineer use to map the smaller subnets to the corporate WLAN?
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?
When conducting a site survey for real-time traffic over wireless, which two design capabilities of smartphones and tablets must be considered? (Choose two.)
A customer has multiple WLCs running in N+1 redundancy with APs load balanced between the WLCs. The customer performs AP failover testing between the WLCs and notices that some of the APs do not move back to their primary WLC after it recovers. What are two points that must be addressed in the design? (Choose two.)
APs do not have their primary WLC information configured correctly.
Which two statements about the requirements to configure inter-controller roaming are true?
(Choose two.)
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 customer is looking for a network design with Cisco Hyperloctation using AP4800 for location tracking via a custom mobile app Issues appeared in the past with refresh rates for location updates. What needs to be implemented to meet these requirements?