A technician with a PC is using multiple applications while connected to the Internet. How is the PC able to keep track of the data flow between multiple application sessions and have each application receive the correct packet flows?

Question:
A technician with a PC is using multiple applications while connected to the Internet. How is the PC able to keep track of the data flow between multiple application sessions and have each application receive the correct packet flows?

• The data flow is being tracked based on the destination port number utilized by each application.
• The data flow is being tracked based on the source port number utilized by each application.
• The data flow is being tracked based on the source IP address used by the PC of the technician.
• The data flow is being tracked based on the destination IP address used by the PC of the technician.

Explanation: The source port number of an application is randomly generated and used to individually keep track of each session connecting out to the Internet. Each application will use a unique source port number to provide simultaneous communication from multiple applications through the Internet.

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