Which option decreases consumption of bandwidth used by broadcast traffic?

While troubleshooting a network outage, a network engineer discovered an unusually high level of broadcast traffic coming from one of the switch interfaces.

Which option decreases consumption of bandwidth used by broadcast traffic?
A . storm control
B . SDM routing
C . Cisco IOS parser
D . integrated routing and bridging
E . Dynamic ARP Inspection

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Answer: A

Explanation:

Storm control prevents traffic on a LAN from being disrupted by a broadcast, multicast, or unicast storm on a port. A LAN storm occurs when packets flood the LAN, creating excessive traffic and degrading network performance. Errors in the protocol-stack implementation, mistakes in network configuration, or users issuing a denial-of-service attack can cause a storm. Storm control is configured for the switch as a whole but operates on a per-port basis. By default, storm control is disabled. Storm control uses rising and falling thresholds to block and then restore the forwarding of broadcast, unicast, or multicast packets. You can also set the switch to

shut down the port when the rising threshold is reached.

Reference: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2950/software/release/12- 1_22ea/ SCG/scg/swtrafc.html