QuestionQ260

Network Fundamentals

What is a characteristic of a Layer 2 switch?

  • A transfers all frames received to every connected device
  • B offers one collision domain for all connected devices
  • C transmits exclusively at half duplex
  • D supports segmentation using tagging protocols
Explanation

A Layer 2 switch can segment traffic by using VLANs, and VLANs are carried across trunk links with tagging protocols such as IEEE 802.1Q. Cisco documentation describes VLAN switching as being accomplished through frame tagging and notes that switches isolate collision domains for attached hosts, which rules out the alternatives about one shared collision domain, flooding all frames to every device, or operating only at half duplex.

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