CompTIA Exam Questions

Which of the following IP settings should be verified?

You are working as a Technician at Certkiller .com. You are asked to troubleshoot an internet
network access problem. You are able to PING a public IP address but you cannot PING the same
public address using the fully qualified domain name. Which of the following IP settings should be
verified?

A.
DHCP

B.
ARP

C.
DNS

D.
Gateway

Explanation:
On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) associates various sorts of information with socalled domain names; most importantly, it serves as the “phone book” for the Internet: it translates
human-readable computer hostnames, e.g. www. Certkiller .com, into the IP addresses that
networking equipment needs for delivering information.