Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 7-2 Gabrielle Is the Network

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Multiple Choice

Case-Based Critical Thinking Questions Case 7-2 Gabrielle is the network administrator at a medium-sized company. One of her responsibilities is to purchase network devices to maintain the company network. Gabrielle realizes that to improve network performance, she needs to buy and install a ____, which identifies the device on the network for which the data is intended and sends the data to that device only.

• A) switch
• B) node
• C) bus
• D) bridge

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