A student is helping a friend with a home computer that can no longer access the Internet. Upon investigation, the student discovers that the computer has been assigned the IP address 169.254.100.88. What could cause a computer to get such an IP address? a. static IP addressing with incomplete information b. interference from surrounding devices c. reduced computer power supply output d. unreachable DHCP server

DHCP term used as a short form of dynamic host configuration protocol, which is used to assigns the IP address automatically according to the network.

According to the scenario, the system is getting the wrong IP address that resulting in internet disconnection which is a failure of the DHCP server because it is responsible for assigning the right IP address to the system.

Hence option (D) is the most appropriate answer.

While other options are wrong because of the following reasons:

Static IP is the type of IP address which is fix and doesn't change in the system after rebooting, hence it has no connection in the change of IP address.

If the DHCP server is working well there is no chance of interference from the surrounding device.

Network setting has no connection with computer power supply as SMPS is used to give power and boot system only.