An engineer is designing a QoS solution for a customer. The customer's internet connection has a bandwidth of 10 Mbps. The design must ensure that traffic bursts of data do not exceed the bandwidth…

Shaping is typically applied to outbound traffic to manage egress bandwidth, not inbound traffic in this context.

Shaping is typically applied to outbound traffic to manage egress bandwidth, not inbound, and policing outbound would control traffic leaving the network, not received traffic.

Traffic shaping is applied to outbound traffic to buffer and smooth bursts, ensuring that data leaving the network towards the internet does not exceed the 10 Mbps bandwidth. Traffic policing is applied to inbound traffic to limit the rate of incoming data, preventing less critical received traffic from consuming excessive bandwidth and starving out business-critical traffic.

While shaping outbound is correct for managing egress bandwidth, policing outbound would control traffic leaving the network, which does not address the issue of received (inbound) traffic starving out business-critical traffic.