Which structured troubleshooting method attempts to locate the issue in a device or link between the source and destination?

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Which structured troubleshooting method attempts to locate the issue in a device or link between the source and destination?

  • Bottom-Up
  • Top-Down
  • Divide-and-Conquer
  • Follow-the-Path
  • Substitution
  • Comparison
  • Educated Guess

Explanation: The follow-the-path approach discovers the actual traffic path between source and destination and then tries to eliminate the links and devices that are irrelevant to the troubleshooting task at hand.

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