The zip utility can meet all of the stated conditions with the right combination of options:
-r recurses into sub-directories.
-y (or --symlinks) stores symbolic links as links instead of the files they reference.
-s 2m splits the archive into 2-megabyte volumes.
-x '*.bak' excludes every file whose name ends with .bak.
Putting these together in the proper order relative to the zipfile name and file list gives:
zip -r -y -s 2m training.zip /opt/training -x '*.bak'
Why the other choices are wrong:
zip -r -s 2m training.zip /opt/training -x '*.bak' leaves out -y, so symbolic links are archived as full files.
zip -r -y training.zip /opt/training -x '*.bak' omits -s 2m, so no splitting occurs.
zip -r -y -s 2m training.zip /opt/training '*.bak' lists the pattern without the -x flag, so it actually includes.bak files instead of excluding them.
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