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Which QoS feature drops traffic that exceeds the committed access rate?

The correct answer is A. policing. This question asks to identify the Quality of Service (QoS) feature responsible for dropping traffic that surpasses a defined rate limit.

Submitted by javi_es· Mar 5, 2026

Question

Which QoS feature drops traffic that exceeds the committed access rate?

Options

  • Apolicing
  • BFIFO
  • Cshaping
  • Dweighted fair queuing

How the community answered

(29 responses)
  • A
    90% (26)
  • B
    7% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)

Why each option

This question asks to identify the Quality of Service (QoS) feature responsible for dropping traffic that surpasses a defined rate limit.

ApolicingCorrect

Policing is a QoS mechanism that meters traffic and enforces a configured rate limit by dropping packets that exceed the committed access rate, ensuring that the traffic flow adheres to the specified bandwidth constraints. It typically results in immediate dropping of non-compliant traffic.

BFIFO

FIFO (First-In, First-Out) is a basic queuing method that processes packets in the order they arrive, without any rate limiting or dropping based on exceeding a committed rate.

Cshaping

Shaping (traffic shaping) buffers excess traffic that exceeds the committed rate and sends it out later, smoothing the output rate, rather than dropping it immediately.

Dweighted fair queuing

Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) is a scheduling algorithm that provides fair bandwidth allocation among different traffic flows based on weights, but it does not primarily drop traffic for exceeding a committed rate.

Concept tested: QoS policing vs shaping

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_plcshp/configuration/15-mt/qos-plcshp-15-mt-book/qos-plcshp-oview.html

Topics

#QoS Policing#Traffic Rate Limiting#Committed Access Rate

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