What is a Reserved Address best described as?

• A. Placeholder for an IP that will never be requested
• B. The IP address of a router
• C. A DHCP pool address
• D. An IP reserved for VPN traffic

Answer: (A)

Reserved addresses are IPs that are set aside within a subnet so the DHCP server won’t hand them out to clients. This makes them effectively unavailable from the dynamic pool, acting as placeholders you can use for future needs or for manual assignments. In practice you might reserve an address for a server, for a device that will be configured manually, or simply to keep space unused, preventing accidental DHCP usage.

That broader idea fits the description of a placeholder for an IP that will never be requested, rather than the router’s gateway address, a pool member that can be leased, or a specific VPN-only allocation. The key point is the address is deliberately kept out of dynamic assignment.