Which security monitoring data type requires the most storage space?

The correct answer is A. full packet capture. Full packet capture (PCAP) records every bit of every network packet - both headers and full payload - as it traverses the network. This produces massive data volumes, especially on high-throughput networks. By contrast, session data (D) records only flow metadata (IP…

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Afull packet capture
Btransaction data
Cstatistical data
Dsession data

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A
93% (38)
C
5% (2)
D
2% (1)

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Full packet capture (PCAP) records every bit of every network packet - both headers and full payload - as it traverses the network. This produces massive data volumes, especially on high-throughput networks. By contrast, session data (D) records only flow metadata (IP addresses, ports, duration, byte counts), transaction data (B) captures only application-layer events, and statistical data (C) is aggregated summaries. Each of those three is progressively more compressed, requiring far less storage than raw packet captures.

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