The correct answer is B. Exclusions . In Anti-Virus policy design, exclusions are used to remove selected traffic or file categories from Anti-Virus inspection when inspection is unnecessary, redundant, or too costly for the business flow. Check Point documentation states that Threat Prevention can be configured to exclude files from inspection , including examples such as internal emails and internal file transfers. The same section explains that these settings are based on interface type and traffic direction.

This directly aligns with the performance objective in the question: if the gateway does not inspect files that are already trusted, internal, or operationally low-risk, Anti-Virus consumes fewer CPU, memory, buffering, and content-inspection resources. Content Control is not the Anti-Virus bypass feature named in this context. Exceptions are policy-level constructs that can exclude traffic from Threat Prevention enforcement, but the question specifically asks for the feature that improves Anti-Virus performance by bypassing inspection of specific files, which is Exclusions . Bypass describes the effect, not the named feature. Reference topics: Anti-Virus Settings, Protected Scope, file inspection exclusions, interface direction, Threat Prevention performance optimization.