A workstation in city hall loads a public website, and the packets leave the data center toward the internet. Which name describes that direction of traffic?
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Short Explanation
Picture the data center as a building and the internet as the street outside. You are walking out the front door, and that trip across the boundary is north-south traffic. East-west stays between servers inside the building, even when the session began on a server.
Full Explanation
North-south traffic enters or leaves the data center, such as a workstation reaching a public website through the internet edge. These packets cross that boundary, so the direction is north-south. East-west traffic stays between systems inside the data center. Calling this lookup east-west because it began on a server ignores where it goes next. The start of the path is not the direction. The return packets are the same session coming back across the same boundary, not a separate south-north category the exam uses. Exam caveat: a flow can be north-south and still stay inside the organization if it only reaches a campus user. The test is whether it crosses the data-center boundary. Operational check: trace the session and confirm it egresses the internet edge rather than stopping on another server in the hall. The reply takes the same boundary in the other direction and is still north-south. Do not rename the flow because the website also sits in somebody else's data center. The boundary you crossed is still the data-center edge.