Which of the following commands connects to the remote host example.com which has OpenSSH listening on TCP port 2222? (Choose TWO correct answers.)

The --port option is not a standard or recognized command-line argument for the ssh client; the correct option for specifying the port is -p.

The -p option is a common and concise way to specify the port number for an SSH connection, directly telling the ssh client to connect to example.com on TCP port 2222 instead of the default port 22. This is a frequently used shortcut for specifying the Port configuration.

The -o option allows specifying any configuration option from the ssh_config man page directly on the command line, overriding values in configuration files. Using -o Port=2222 explicitly sets the target port for the SSH connection to 2222, providing an alternative to the -p option.

The -o GatewayPort option is an SSH client configuration directive used to specify whether the gateway should be bound to a non-privileged port, which is unrelated to specifying the destination port for the primary SSH connection.

Specifying the port with a colon directly after the hostname (example.com:2222) is not a valid syntax for the standard ssh command; this format is more commonly seen with tools like scp, rsync, or web URLs.