OD41

6 November 2025

CompTIA Network+: IPv4 Network Addressing


 

Question:

Which address is always used for the loopback address in IPv4?

  • 127.0.0.1


Question

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If you discover that your client device has an IP address configured by APIPA, what is the most likely reason?

  • Your client was unable to contact a DHCP server


Question

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How many hosts per network can be addressed in a class A network with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0?

Answer B.

  • 256

Question
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What is the last address of the first subnet if your IP configuration is 192.168.0.0/26?

  • 192.168.0.63


Question

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Which addresses would be in the class C IP range?

  • 194.100.10.1

  • 223.100.150.5


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If host 1 has an IP address of 192.168.0.100, and host 2 has an IP address of 192.168.3.100, which subnet mask would be required for them to be able to communicate without a router?

  • 255.255.252.0


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What is the CIDR notation for a class B network if the subnet mask is 255.255.240.0?

  • 172.16.0.0/20


Question

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If there are 8 bits available to address host systems on a network, how many possible addresses are there?

  • 256


Question

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Which IPv4 addresses could be used as private addresses?

  • 10.10.1.10

  • 192.168.1.1


Question

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RFC 1918 and internal IP addresses came about for which primary reason?

  • To prevent the exhaustion of the public IP address space


Question

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A subnet mask of 255.255.255.192 on a class C network creates how many subnets?

  • 4