Which of the following best describes the operation of the Media Dependent Adapter
(MDA)?

A.
Excess data is discarded by the MDA and the remaining data forwarded for QoS
processing.

B.
The MDA buffers data and applies Quality of Service (QoS) to classify and treat the data
appropriately.

C.
The MDA converts data from its incoming physical format into an internal format and

provides some minimal buffering.

D.
The MDA contains the flexible fast path complex used for forwarding data.