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350-701 · Question #891
What is a traffic flow capability of an out-of-band deployed IDS?
The correct answer is C. monitoring. An out-of-band (promiscuous-mode) IDS passively inspects copies of packets, so its only traffic- flow capability is monitoring; it does not sit inline to block or shape traffic.
Submitted by lukas.cz· Mar 30, 2026Network Security
Question
What is a traffic flow capability of an out-of-band deployed IDS?
Options
- Ablocking and monitoring
- Bquality of service-based shaping
- Cmonitoring
- Dblocking
How the community answered
(40 responses)- A3% (1)
- B3% (1)
- C95% (38)
Explanation
An out-of-band (promiscuous-mode) IDS passively inspects copies of packets, so its only traffic- flow capability is monitoring; it does not sit inline to block or shape traffic.
Topics
#IDS#out-of-band deployment#passive monitoring#traffic inspection
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