CompTIA Server+ (SK0-005) — Question 286

A technician is monitoring a server and notices there is only one NIC plugged in, but the server has two. The NIC is oversaturated, and the technician would like to increase the available bandwidth.

Which of the following solutions would be the BEST option to increase the speed of this NIC?

Answer options

• A. Link aggregation
• B. Heartbeat
• C. Most recently used
• D. Active-active

Correct answer: A

Explanation

Link aggregation is the best choice as it allows multiple network interfaces to be combined into a single logical interface, effectively increasing bandwidth and providing redundancy. The other options do not address bandwidth issues: Heartbeat is related to monitoring, Most recently used is a caching strategy, and Active-active is a failover configuration, not directly related to increasing NIC speed.