Question 390
A wireless voice call has low RSSI but the WLAN team tries to repair it solely with DSCP priority rules. Which failure mechanism best explains the observed behavior?
Explanation
Correct Answer
The symptoms fit this mechanism. A targeted response is to correct the RF coverage and SNR deficit before expecting QoS to repair missing radio frames, followed by verification that voice packet loss improves after coverage correction while approved QoS remains intact.
Incorrect Answers
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a wireless network has high airtime consumption from low legacy data rates despite moderate user counts. The symptoms here are better explained by traffic priority cannot compensate for unusable wireless link quality.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when a switch receives ingress traffic marked with elevated priority from untrusted student PCs, starving approved voice traffic. The symptoms here are better explained by traffic priority cannot compensate for unusable wireless link quality.
That explanation fits a different case, such as when an application experiences 20 ms average latency but bursts to 250 ms during each storage transfer, causing user complaints. The symptoms here are better explained by traffic priority cannot compensate for unusable wireless link quality.