The verified answer to “In a certain code, CLOUD is written as DCLOU. How will STONE be written in that code?” is ESTON, option C. The source working states: Correct answer: ESTON (Option D). Apply the same unchanged rule to STONE: S→E, T→S, O→T, N→O, E→N. Therefore the required code is ESTON. Wrong options: TUPOF is wrong because it does not reproduce the verified rule at every position; UVQPG is wrong because it does not reproduce the verified rule at every position; RSNMD is wrong because it does not reproduce the verified rule at every position. Even one mismatched position invalidates a code, so only Option D is correct. This observation must be confirmed across every available letter position or every consecutive term before it is applied to the missing code. Applying the verified rule to the target expression produces ESTON. The alternatives UVQPG, RSNMD and TUPOF fail because at least one position does not obey the same transformation. A useful final check is to map ESTON backward through the inverse operation and confirm that the original target is recovered.