A developer is running an application that connects to the Cisco website and collects data. The application will be hosted in a local data center and the data will need to be collected on a frequent…

`"cisco.com"=WEBSITE` is incorrect syntax for assigning a value to a variable in Bash; the variable name must come first.

`export lvar=23` correctly sets and exports an environment variable, but it uses the wrong variable name and value for the scenario described.

`WEBSITE="cisco.com"` correctly assigns a value to a shell variable, but without the `export` command, this variable would not be available in the environment of child processes.

The `export` command in Bash is specifically used to mark a variable so that it becomes part of the environment passed to child processes. This makes `website="cisco.com"` available to the application when it runs, fulfilling the requirement for setting environmental variables.