Infoblox Certification Practice Test 2026 – Complete Exam Prep

IPv6 address assignment uses two main modes: stateless and stateful. SLAAC (Stateless Address Autoconfiguration) provides addresses without a DHCP server, while DHCPv6 is the protocol used for stateful address assignment where a server hands out addresses and tracks configuration. There’s also stateless DHCPv6, which supplies other configuration data but does not assign addresses. Because of that, “stateless” by itself isn’t an independent address assignment type; the actual address assignment methods are SLAAC and DHCPv6. The option that doesn’t describe a standalone address-assignment method is the stateless term, since it’s the mode used by SLAAC rather than a separate assignment method.