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You are the network administrator for your company. You install two servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and 70 client computers on the network. All computers on the network receive their IP addresses automatically from a DHCP server. You are unable to connect to other computers on the network from Computer_A. You run the ipconfig utility on Computer_A and receive the following results: IP Address: 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask: 0.0.0.0 . What could be the cause of the problem? (Choose two options.)

  1. The static IP address configured for Computer_A is duplicat

  2. The DHCP server is down

  3. The DHCP server is out of IP addresses

  4. The DNS server is down

  5. The DHCP server does not have a DNS server option configured
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AI explanation

A client showing IP Address 0.0.0.0 and Subnet Mask 0.0.0.0 (as opposed to an APIPA 169.254.x.x address) means the client tried DHCP, failed to obtain a lease, and did not fall back to Automatic Private IP Addressing. Two DHCP-side failures produce exactly this symptom: the DHCP server being completely unreachable/down (no lease possible), and the DHCP server being reachable but having exhausted its scope of available addresses (also no lease possible). A duplicate static IP wouldn't produce 0.0.0.0 (a static client keeps its configured address and gets a conflict warning instead), and DNS server status or missing DHCP DNS options don't affect whether the client can obtain an IP lease at all. The question explicitly asks to "choose two," so both DHCP-down and DHCP-out-of-addresses are the intended correct causes.

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