IP Addressing and Subnetting Questions

Covers designing and calculating Internet Protocol addressing for networks, including both strategic planning and low level subnetting math. Candidates should be able to design addressing schemes that account for number of hosts, growth, scalability, and segmentation such as virtual local area network addressing, reserve addresses for gateways and infrastructure, and document address plans. Must understand Internet Protocol version 4 and Internet Protocol version 6 addressing models, classful versus classless allocation, subnet masks, classless inter domain routing notation, and how to compute network addresses, broadcast addresses, and usable host ranges. Includes public versus private addressing, address conservation techniques, address aggregation and summarization, considerations for routing and summarization, and operational topics such as static versus dynamic assignment and how addressing choices interact with network services and translation mechanisms.