100-890 · Question #8
Which Collaboration Room system is recommended for more than 14 people?
The correct answer is B. Cisco Webex Room Kit Pro. series/index.html#~room-kits
Question
Which Collaboration Room system is recommended for more than 14 people?
Options
- ACisco Webex Room Kit
- BCisco Webex Room Kit Pro
- CCisco Webex Room USB
- DCisco Webex Room Kit Plus
- ECisco Webex Room Kit Mini
How the community answered
(55 responses)- A5% (3)
- B82% (45)
- C2% (1)
- D9% (5)
- E2% (1)
Explanation
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Community Discussion
6The answer is B, the Cisco Webex Room Kit Pro. Cisco designed the Room Kit Pro specifically for large conference rooms and boardrooms that seat more than 14 people, and that size threshold is exactly what the exam wants you to remember. The standard Room Kit and Room Kit Plus are built for smaller to medium rooms, the Mini is for tiny huddle spaces, and the Room USB is a bring-your-own-device solution that has nothing to do with large room capacity. I missed this one the first time because I conflated "Pro" with just being a premium version rather than understanding it maps to a specific room size category, so burn that association into your head now and you will not give away that point.
Good call on the room size peg, and I will add that the Pro also supports dual screens and dual cameras which sometimes shows up as a distractor detail in the question stem, so do not let that extra hardware language throw you off when the real decision point is still just that 14-plus seat threshold.
The Room Kit Pro is the heavy hitter in that lineup, built specifically for large boardrooms and auditoriums where you have a crowd that the other kits would choke on, and Cisco draws that line right around 14 seats before they point you toward the Pro. The regular Room Kit and the Plus are solid for small to mid-size rooms, the Mini is basically a huddle space solution, and the Room USB is just a bring-your-own-laptop peripheral so that one is not even in the same conversation. For the exam just remember that "Pro" in Cisco's naming usually signals enterprise-scale capacity, not just extra features. But here is what I am genuinely curious about, does anyone know if the 14-person threshold is a hard Cisco spec tied to the camera's field of view and codec load, or is that more of a recommended best-practice number they settled on from deployment data?
The 14-seat figure is a hard spec tied to the camera field of view and the number of simultaneous video streams the codec can track without dropping frames, not just a ballpark Cisco arrived at from customer feedback.
Think of a conference room like a restaurant table: a table for two is different from one that seats eight, which is still different from a banquet hall setup. Cisco sizes its Room Kits the same way, and the Room Kit Pro is the banquet hall option, designed for large rooms with more than 14 participants, which rules out the standard Room Kit, the Plus, the Mini, and the USB adapter right away. The only real trap here is the Room Kit Plus, which sounds like it should be the biggest, but "plus" just means one step up from standard, not top of the line, so do not let the name fool you. The answer is B.
The "Plus sounds biggest" trap is exactly what got me on my first attempt, so worth hammering that point home, but also remind people that the Pro supports up to three screens and dual cameras, which is the other reason it fits those 14-plus rooms beyond just headcount.