What is the term for the logical path data follows from source to destination, determined by routing protocols?

• A. Bandwidth
• B. Latency
• C. Route
• D. Jitter

Answer: (C)

In networking, the path that data follows from its source to its destination is called the route. Routing protocols work with routers to build routing tables that indicate the next hop toward each destination, so packets are forwarded along that decided path. The other terms describe performance characteristics of the path rather than its identity: bandwidth is how much data can move per second, latency is the delay in moving data, and jitter is the variation in that delay. So the best answer is the route.