Multiple choice

What is the basic characteristic of switches and hubs?

  1. Hubs cannot filter frames.

  2. Using hubs is costly with regard to bandwidth availability.

  3. Switches do and can not forward broadcasts.

  4. Switches increase the number of collision domains in the network.
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Explanation

Switches increases the number of collisions domains in the network. Switches that are configured with VLANs will reduce the size of the collision domains by increasing the number of collision domains in a network, but making them smaller than that of one big, flat network.

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