Refer to the exhibit. The code snippet provides information about the packet captures within a network. How can the most used source IP addresses within a specific time be visualized?

Question

Exhibit

Options

• Aline graph
• Bbar histogram
• Cscatter plot
• Dheatmap

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  74% (20)
• C
  7% (2)
• D
  15% (4)

Explanation

A bar histogram is correct because it excels at showing frequency/count distributions - making it ideal for visualizing how often each source IP address appears within a specific time window, clearly ranking the most-used IPs side by side. A line graph (A) is wrong because it implies continuous change over time, not discrete categorical counts per IP address. A scatter plot (C) shows relationships between two continuous variables, not frequency of categorical items like IP addresses. A heatmap (D) requires two categorical dimensions (e.g., IP vs. time block) - useful for patterns across a matrix, but overkill and less direct than a histogram for simply ranking IPs by usage count.

Memory tip: Think "bar = bar the most popular" - whenever you need to rank who appears most, reach for a bar histogram. If the question says "most used" or "most frequent," histogram is almost always the answer.

No community discussion yet for this question.