A queue is configured with the following attributes: MBS = 10KB CBS = 5KB High-Priority-Only = 20% Assume that there is no CBS overbooking and that the slope-policy is disabled. If the current queue depth is 3KB, what will happen to an out-of-profile packet arriving at an egress queue?
A) It will be queued in the reserved portion of the buffer pool and remain out-of-profile.
B) It will be queued in the reserved portion of the buffer pool if there are no in-profile packets already in the queue.
C) It will be queued in the reserved portion of the buffer pool and be in-profile.
D) It will be queued in the shared portion of the buffer pool but contend for shared buffer space with packets from other queues.
E) It will be queued in the shared portion of the buffer pool but may be dropped if the buffer utilization exceeds the start-average value of the low slope.

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The packet will be queued in the reserved portion of the buffer pool and remain out-of-profile because the queue is configured with High-Priority-Only = 20%, which means that 20% of the buffer space is reserved for high-priority packets. Since the packet is out-of-profile, it will be queued in the reserved portion of the buffer pool.

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