CompTIA Security+ Exam Prep

Answer: B - The Token Ring is technology that has a control frame that travels in a logical circle and is “picked up” when a system needs to communicate. This allows communication and sharing of networking resources with a star-configured topology that is called a Multistation Access Unit. The token-passing technology is one in which a device cannot put data on the network wire without having possession of a token. This is different from Ethernet, in which all the devices attempt to communicate at the same time, which is why Ethernet is referred to as a “chatty protocol” and has collisions. Token Ring does not endure collisions, since only one system can communicate at a time, but this also means communication takes place more slowly.