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…

Analyzing the network is a post-placement step performed after APs have been positioned and the predictive model has been generated, not before the floor plan is calibrated.

Identifying the coverage area logically depends on an accurate scale - without it, the tool cannot compute what physical area an AP will cover.

Setting the scale maps the floor plan image to real-world dimensions, giving the survey software accurate distance and area measurements. Without a correct scale, the tool cannot model signal propagation, AP coverage radius, or overlap accurately, making every subsequent step - AP placement, coverage analysis - unreliable.

Placing access points before setting the scale produces predictions based on incorrect distances, invalidating the entire predictive model.