Question

You have been dispatched to resolve an elevated trouble ticket in which a workstation cannot communicate with other hosts on the local network. The status light on the NIC is lit, indicating a wired link is present, and the NIC's activity light is flashing normally. The workstation is configured with a static address. While interviewing the user of the workstation, you discover the problem is evident only for an hour in the morning when the sales team arrives in the office to upload their reports to the company server.Which of the following is the most likely cause for this issue? a. The workstation's NIC is disabled in the system BIOS or has failed. b. The patch cable from the workstation to the wall jack has failed. C. The switch port the workstation is connected to has failed. d. The IP address assigned to the workstation conflicts with another host on the network.

Answer 1

d. The IP address assigned to the workstation conflicts with another host in the network.

Step-by-step explanation:

The most likely cause for the issue investigated, taking into account that it has been assigned an static IP address to the workstation (which means that it is always the same, opposite to the case if it were using DHCP for instance), could be that someone coming from outside (as a typical salesman) has a notebook with a IP (static also) that conflicts with the one of the workstation.

If he gets connected with the server using this same IP address, it will create a confilict with the workstation in the same network.

All other possible causes mentioned are independent from the day or the time of the day (as they are mostly hardware dependent), so we can discard them.