Octavia has set up a private cloud with a virtual machine at the IP address 172.19.101.5 and the subnet mask 255.255.255.192. She has been asked what the broadcast IP address is for the network. How should she respond?
A) 172.19.101.255
B) 172.19.101.127
C) 172.19.101.31
D) 172.19.101.63

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The subnet mask 255.255.255.192 corresponds to a /26 CIDR notation, which means the network is divided into blocks of 64 IP addresses (0-63, 64-127, etc.). Given the IP address 172.19.101.5 falls within the first block (0-63), the broadcast address, which is the last address in the block, is 172.19.101.63.

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