Question

A technician is setting up a small office where the existing 24-port switch is fully occupied, but six more wired workstations must be added. The technician has a second switch available. Which device is designed to interconnect the two switches and forward traffic between all the wired devices on the same local network based on MAC addresses?

Accepted Answer

A switch, cascaded to the first switch to extend the number of available ports

Answer

A router placed between the two switches to route packets locally

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A wireless access point plugged into the open wall jack

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A firewall appliance to bridge the two device groups