What is a benefit of DHCP?

Question

Options

• ADecentralized administration
• BAutomatic creation of ARP table entries
• CEasier administration within large networks
• DManual maintenance of routing-charts

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  88% (35)
• D
  8% (3)

Explanation

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) automates the assignment of IP addresses, subnet masks, gateways, and DNS servers to devices on a network, making it far easier to manage large networks where manually configuring hundreds or thousands of devices would be impractical - making C correct.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Decentralized administration): DHCP is the opposite - it centralizes IP management on a dedicated server, not decentralizes it.
• B (Automatic creation of ARP table entries): ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) handles MAC-to-IP mapping independently; DHCP does not create ARP entries.
• D (Manual maintenance of routing charts): DHCP eliminates manual configuration tasks; it automates address assignment, not routing table management.

Memory tip: Think of DHCP as a hotel front desk - it automatically hands out room numbers (IP addresses) to guests as they arrive, so the hotel manager (admin) doesn't have to manually assign rooms one by one, no matter how large the hotel gets.

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