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Self-Assessment Quiz

1
Which of the following are needed for e-mail clients to find their e-mail servers, FTP clients to find their file servers, and Web browsers to find Web servers?
A)DHCP servers
B)DNS servers
C)E-mail servers
D)WINS servers
2
What do DNS servers use to help resolve IP addresses to DNS names?
A)Authentication
B)Authorization
C)Backward lookup zones
D)Reverse lookup zones
3
What do DNS servers use to help resolve DNS names to IP addresses?
A)Accounting
B)Administration
C)Backward lookup zones
D)Forward lookup zones
4
What type of DNS servers do not have any forward lookup zones, and will resolve names of systems on the Internet for a network, but are not responsible for telling other DNS servers the names of any clients?
A)Cache-only servers
B)Primary servers
C)Secondary servers
D)WINS servers
5
What single command gives you the IP address and the name of your system’s default DNS server?
A)nbtstat
B)nslookup
C)ping
D)winword
6
What file can be replaced when a network has a WINS server?
A)HOSTS
B)LMHOSTS
C)SAM
D)WINS
7
What file can be replaced when a network has a DNS server?
A)HOSTS
B)LMHOSTS
C)SAM
D)WINS
8
What will adding a WINS proxy agent enable you to accomplish on your network?
A)Cross a hub
B)Cross a server
C)Cross a switch
D)Cross a router
9
Folders with subfolders on a system, like domain names with subdomains, are said to have a structure resembling what?
A)Branch
B)Forest
C)Root
D)Tree
10
Which of the following commands clears the local cache of DNS entries?
A)ipconfig /clear
B)ipconfig /cls
C)ipconfig /flushdns
D)ipconfig /renew
11
Which variation of the NBTSTAT command will check the current NetBIOS name cache?
A)nbtstat
B)nbtstat –c
C)nbtstat /checkupgradeonly
D)nbtstat /status
12
Which of these terms are frequently used interchangeably?
A)Domain
B)Folder
C)Subdomain
D)Zone
E)Answer A, D
F)Answer A, C
13
Which of the following are valid DNS record entry types?
A)A
B)M
C)NS
D)SOA
E)Answers B, C, D
F)Answers A, C, D
G)Answers A, B, C
14
Which of the following is an example of a top-level domain?
A).com
B)totalsem.com
C)support.totalsem.com
D)houston.support.totalsem.com
15
How do authoritative DNS servers and cache-only DNS servers differ?
A)Authoritative DNS servers contain forward lookup zones while cache-only DNS servers contain only reverse lookup zones.
B)Authoritative DNS servers store IP addresses and FQDNs of systems for a particular domain or domains while cache-only DNS servers do not store any FQDNs because they are only used to talk to other DNS servers to resolve IP addresses.
C)Authoritative DNS servers service requests for top-level domains while cache-only DNS servers service requests for down-level domains.
D)Authoritative DNS servers are found only in Windows Active Directory networks while cache-only DNS servers are found universally throughout the Internet.







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