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300-320 · Question #518

An engineer is configuring QoS to meet the following requirement: - all traffic that exceeds the allocated bandwidth will still traverse the infrastructure but will be forwarded later What will be…

The correct answer is D. Shaping. Traffic shaping is the mechanism that buffers excess traffic (traffic exceeding the configured rate) in a queue and then releases it later when bandwidth becomes available, rather than dropping it. This matches the requirement precisely: traffic still traverses the…

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Question

An engineer is configuring QoS to meet the following requirement:

  • all traffic that exceeds the allocated bandwidth will still traverse the infrastructure but will be

forwarded later What will be requirements?

Options

  • APer-Hop behaviours
  • BWeighted Fair Queuing
  • CIP Precedence
  • DShaping

How the community answered

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  • A
    6% (1)
  • B
    19% (3)
  • D
    75% (12)

Explanation

Traffic shaping is the mechanism that buffers excess traffic (traffic exceeding the configured rate) in a queue and then releases it later when bandwidth becomes available, rather than dropping it. This matches the requirement precisely: traffic still traverses the infrastructure but is delayed. Policing would drop or re-mark excess traffic rather than buffering it. Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ) is a scheduling algorithm that fairly distributes bandwidth among flows but does not limit rates. IP Precedence and Per-Hop Behaviors (PHB) are traffic classification/marking mechanisms, not rate-control mechanisms.

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#traffic shaping#QoS#excess traffic buffering#queuing

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