What are two purposes of a forwarding class? (Choose two.)

While traffic can eventually be dropped by CoS mechanisms, the primary purpose of a forwarding class itself is not to identify traffic for dropping, but rather to classify it for specific QoS treatment.

Forwarding classes are the result of classification (where traffic is assigned to a class), not the act of classification itself. Classification is the process that puts traffic into a forwarding class.

A forwarding class identifies a group of traffic that should receive common CoS treatment, such as the same priority, loss characteristics, and delay, throughout the network.

Forwarding classes are directly mapped to output queues on network interfaces, ensuring that traffic within a specific class is directed to a particular queue for scheduling and congestion management.