CompTIA A+ 220-1102 Practice Question

tracert is the correct answer because it sends a sequence of Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo requests to a specified destination with incrementing Time To Live (TTL) values. At each hop where the TTL expires, the host sends back an ICMP time exceeded message, providing the IP address of the intermediate point and the round-trip time for that segment. This allows the user to see the entire path packets take to the destination, as well as the delays at each hop. ping, while it measures the round-trip time to the remote host, does not show the intermediate hops. ipconfig is used for displaying the current network configuration, particularly local addressing information, and hostname provides the name of the current host, which does not contribute to the tracing of the packet's journey.