Which of the following tools is similar to the ping tool but operates at OSI data link layer using the address resolution protocol?

ARP operates at the OSI data link layer (Layer 2) and uses hardware MAC addresses rather than IP addresses, making it analogous to ping (which uses ICMP at Layer 3) but at a lower layer. Tools like arping leverage ARP requests to test Layer 2 connectivity between hosts on the same network segment.

NSLOOKUP is a DNS query tool that operates at the application layer (Layer 7) and resolves hostnames to IP addresses, not MAC addresses.

NETSTAT displays active network connections, routing tables, and interface statistics at the transport and network layers, and does not use ARP or operate at the data link layer.

TRACERT traces the route packets take across multiple hops using ICMP or UDP at the network layer (Layer 3), not the data link layer.