Which concept involves connecting multiple adapters to improve reliability and reduce downtime?

• A. Adapter Card
• B. Adapter Teaming
• C. AdHoc
• D. AES

Answer: (B)

This is about NIC teaming, the practice of combining multiple network adapters into one logical link to boost reliability and, when supported, throughput. By aggregating adapters, traffic can still flow if one NIC or its path fails, providing automatic failover and reducing downtime. It’s commonly used on servers and critical systems to keep connections available even during hardware or link issues, and it can also increase bandwidth when the switches support link aggregation protocols like LACP.

The other options don’t fit because an adapter card alone offers a single path with no built-in redundancy; AdHoc describes spontaneous, often temporary networks rather than a wired NIC aggregation; AES is an encryption standard and has no role in providing network reliability or downtime reduction.