A network engineer configures a NIC that has an IP address of 192.

The IPv4 address 192.168.123.232 falls within the Class C range under classful addressing. In classful terms, Class C addresses have a first octet from 192 to 223, which makes any address starting with 192.x.x.x a Class C address. Network+ (N10-009) networking concepts cover IPv4 addressing fundamentals and commonly reference class ranges as foundational knowledge, even though modern networks primarily use CIDR (classless) subnetting rather than strict classful boundaries.

This address is also within a well-known private IPv4 block: 192.168.0.0/16 (RFC1918 private addressing), which is frequently used for internal networks and NIC configurations where addresses are not routable on the public internet.

To eliminate the distractors: Class A uses first octet 1–126, Class B uses 128–191, and Class D (224–239) is reserved for multicast. Since the first octet here is 192, it maps to Class C, making option C correct.

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