An open office design is made up of three furniture clusters and contains a total of nine. How many multiuser telecommunications outlet assemblies (MUTOA) should be in the design?

One MUTOA is insufficient because a single MUTOA is architecturally designated to serve only one furniture cluster, and this design contains three distinct clusters.

Per ANSI/TIA-568.1, a multiuser telecommunications outlet assembly (MUTOA) is assigned on a per-furniture-cluster basis in open office environments, serving all workstations within that cluster via consolidation point cabling. With three furniture clusters, exactly three MUTOAs are required - one for each cluster. The total of nine workstations affects the port count within each MUTOA but does not alter the number of MUTOA units.

Four MUTOAs does not correspond to any standardized ratio - the TIA standard defines the unit of assignment as the furniture cluster, not a fractional grouping of workstations.

Six MUTOAs over-provisions the installation by applying a per-workstation-pair ratio rather than the correct per-cluster ratio defined in ANSI/TIA-568.1.

Nine MUTOAs incorrectly applies a one-per-workstation model, which misunderstands the MUTOA concept - it consolidates multiple outlets per cluster, not one unit per individual workstation.