Failover NIC teaming (Network Interface Card teaming) is a method used to provide fault tolerance by combining two or more NICs into a single logical interface. If one NIC fails, the other NIC(s) take over, ensuring continuous network connectivity.
* Increased fault tolerance (Answer D): The primary benefit of failover NIC teaming is to ensure that network communication is not interrupted when one NIC fails. The remaining NICs take over to maintain uptime.
* Decreased latency (Option A): NIC teaming is not primarily used to reduce latency; it's focused on redundancy and fault tolerance.
* Increased transmission size (Option B): NIC teaming does not directly increase the size of transmissions.
* Increased system resources (Option C): NIC teaming doesn't increase system resources like CPU or memory, but it ensures network redundancy.
CompTIA Server+ Reference:This topic is covered under SK0-005 Objective 1.4: Summarize methods used to manage network connections.