CompTIA Network+ (N10-008) — Question 5

Which of the following factors should be considered when evaluating a firewall to protect a datacenter's east-west traffic?

Answer options

• A. Replication traffic between an on-premises server and a remote backup facility
• B. Traffic between VMs running on different hosts
• C. Concurrent connections generated by Internet DDoS attacks
• D. VPN traffic from remote offices to the datacenter's VMs

Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is B because east-west traffic refers to data moving between virtual machines within the same datacenter, which is critical to secure. Options A, C, and D pertain to north-south traffic or external connections, which are not relevant to the specific evaluation of east-west traffic protection.