A technician, in a machine room, accidentally drops a floor tile on a fiber optic cable running from a single path host to a Fibre Channel switch. Which of the following symptoms would be MOST likely

If the host were visible, it would imply a functional physical link, which is contrary to a broken fiber optic cable.

A cable fault primarily affects connectivity, not typically causing a direct hardware failure of the Host Bus Adapter itself.

A broken cable does not typically cause a hardware failure of the switch's SFP module; it merely prevents data transmission through it.

A broken fiber optic cable disrupts the physical layer connection, preventing the transmission of light signals required for Fibre Channel communication. Without a working physical link, the host cannot establish an operational connection with the Fibre Channel switch and therefore will not appear visible or registered to the switch.