You are troubleshooting a network issue on a client computer and discover that the network card has an IP address of 169.254.196.200. What does this mean?
A) The computer has been assigned a routed public IP address.
B) The network card has been erroneously assigned a loopback address.
C) The computer is configured to use DHCP, but was unable to lease an address.
D) The network card is set up for multicast communication.

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The IP address 169.254.196.200 is an Automatic Private IP Address (APIPA). This means that the computer was configured to use DHCP to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server, but was not able to connect to one or receive a response. As a fallback, the network card assigns itself a self-generated IP address in the reserved range of 169.254.x.x. This indicates that there are some issues with DHCP.

You Are Troubleshooting a Network Issue on a Client Computer