What is a best practice design for the VLANs and subnets for the wired devices?

Refer to the exhibit.

An architect needs to plan a network solution for a new office building with four floors. Each floor has two wiring closets with the equipment shown in the exhibit. The switches will connect to employee desktops, a few campus APs controlled by MCs, and printers. The switches do not implement tunneled node.
What is a best practice design for the VLANs and subnets for the wired devices?
A. one VLAN per closet and a /24 subnet for each VLAN
B. one VLAN per closet and a /25 subnet for each VLAN
C. one VLAN for the entire building and a /23 subnet
D. one VLAN per floor and a /24 subnet for each VLAN

Download Printable PDF. VALID exam to help you PASS.

4 thoughts on “What is a best practice design for the VLANs and subnets for the wired devices?

  1. In my experience, they’re all wrong. You would assign subnets according to function per floor and not floor alone. This would mean you would have multiple /24 subnet VLANs attached to the stacks however, the most correct answer here would be ‘A’ because all the other answers are dumb.

  2. A is correct. Each closet has a total of 192 ports, so that fits in a /24 network.
    B is wrong because a /25 only gives you 128 ip addresses so not enough for all ports
    C is wrong because a /23, like B, does not give you enough addresses
    D is wrong because you would have a total of 384 ports in a /24 range.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


The reCAPTCHA verification period has expired. Please reload the page.