The answer is A because the code fragment uses the ZoneId and ZonedDateTime classes to create two date-time objects with the same local date-time but different zone offsets. The ZoneId class represents a time-zone ID, such as America/Chicago, and the ZonedDateTime class represents a date-time with a time-zone in the ISO-8601 calendar system. The code fragment creates two ZonedDateTime objects with the same local date-time of 2021-11-07T01:30, but different zone IDs of America/Chicago and UTC. The code fragment then compares the two objects using the equals and isEqual methods.

The equals method compares the state of two objects for equality. In this case, it compares the local date-time, zone offset, and zone ID of the two ZonedDateTime objects. Since the zone offsets and zone IDs are different, the equals method returns false.

The isEqual method compares the instant of two temporal objects for equality. In this case, it compares the instant of the two ZonedDateTime objects, which is derived from the local date-time and zone offset. Since DST in Chicago ended on November 7th at 2 AM in 2021, the local date-time of 2021-11-07T01:30 in America/Chicago corresponds to the same instant as 2021-11-07T06:30 in UTC. Therefore, the isEqual method returns true.

Hence, the output is true false. References:

Oracle Certified Professional: Java SE 17 Developer

Java SE 17 Developer

OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 17 Developer Study Guide

ZoneId (Java Platform SE 8 )

ZonedDateTime (Java Platform SE 8 )

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