An engineer is preparing to conduct a site survey with AirMagnet. The engineer wants to capture all 802.11 traffic (not SSID specific) on the first walkthrough. Which survey mode should be used?

The correct answer is D. passive. Passive survey mode in AirMagnet (and other wireless survey tools) places the wireless adapter in monitor/promiscuous mode to passively listen and capture all 802.11 beacon frames and traffic from every SSID and AP visible at each location - without associating to any specific…

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Options

Aactive
Bactive with Iperf for greenfield: AP mode
Cactive with Iperf for greenfield: SSID mode
Dpassive
Eplanning mode survey

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(38 responses)

B
3% (1)
C
5% (2)
D
87% (33)
E
5% (2)

Explanation

Passive survey mode in AirMagnet (and other wireless survey tools) places the wireless adapter in monitor/promiscuous mode to passively listen and capture all 802.11 beacon frames and traffic from every SSID and AP visible at each location - without associating to any specific network. This makes it ideal for the initial walkthrough to assess the existing RF environment, identify neighboring networks, and measure signal strength across all channels. Active survey modes (A, B, C) require association to a specific SSID and test connectivity/throughput for that network. Planning mode (E) is used for predictive modeling before physical deployment.

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