An access point advertises a clinic SSID about ten times a second with a beacon. What kind of frame is that beacon?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
You can recognize the access point’s repeated SSID announcement as a management frame advertising the BSS. Your client does not send it to keep its address, and it is not a control frame acknowledging a beacon or a probe request.
Full Explanation
A beacon is a management frame that the access point sends periodically to advertise the BSS, so the clinic SSID announcement is a management frame sent by the access point. It is not a data frame sent by the client to keep its address: that description gets both the frame type and sender wrong. It is not a control frame acknowledging every beacon; an ACK is a control-frame acknowledgment of a received frame, not the beacon itself. A probe request is also a management frame, but the client sends it to seek a network; calling the access point’s periodic beacon a probe request confuses who sends the frame and its purpose. Exam caveat: focus on the direction and purpose described—an access point’s periodic advertisement, with no client request, is a beacon. For a practical check, filter a wireless capture for the access point and confirm that the periodic frames are labeled as management beacons. After a change, retest one live client, compare its result with what you expected, and check the live counters before making further changes.