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CIS 2153 - Chapter 3 Worksheet 1

CIS 2153 - Chapter 3 Worksheet Name _________________________


Implementing Name Resolution Using DNS Date ______________

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1.Host name resolution on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network uses DNS to map which two items to
one another?

2.Internet namespace has a hierarchical structure with the root domain located at the top of the structure.
What is used to represent the root domain?

3.A host must communicate with a server on the same network. The host has the IP address of the server.
What process will DNS use to obtain the name of the server?

4.Your Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network is running DNS. The network has a DNS server with a
standard primary zone and two DNS servers hosting standard secondary zones. You must make a
manual entry in the DNS database, and you would like this entry to replicate to all other DNS
servers on the network. You must make the entry on which DNS server?

5.You are the administrator of a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 domain. Your domain has three DNS
servers, which are located on domain controllers. Currently, you can create updates on only one of
the DNS servers. You would like to be able to make changes to the DNS database on any of the
three DNS servers, and you want these changes to replicate to all other DNS servers in your domain.
You should make which configuration change?

6.Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has three options for Active Directory–integrated zone replication. What
are they?

7.You are the administrator at Lucerne Publishing. You administer the books.lucernepublishing.com
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain. Active Directory–integrated DNS is
configured on all domain controllers in the domain. You configure a member server, ServerA, to
host an internal Web site for the intranet. You want employees to access this Web site using the
URL books.internal.lucernepublishing.com. What should be created, and what should the target host
be?

8.When a client queries a DNS server and requests the best answer that the DNS server can provide using
only its own database, which type of query has been performed?
9.To perform a recursive query, the DNS server must have the location of the root level DNS servers. By
default, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 stores the root hints in which file?

10.When a DNS server that is configured to perform recursive queries cannot resolve a name or is not
authoritative for the namespace, it must contact a higher-level DNS server. What will the DNS
server use to locate DNS servers that are higher in the DNS hierarchy?

11.Which type of DNS server does not contain a copy of a zone file but is capable of responding to client
queries?

12.Which type of DNS server contains a copy of the zone file and can respond to client queries but cannot
be directly updated?

13.Your company uses a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network that runs DNS. You would like to
improve name resolution, but you do not want to increase replication traffic. What can you do to
accomplish this?

14.While viewing your DNS database, you see the following resource record:
na.contoso.com. IN NS nadcl.na.contoso.com.
What is the purpose of this resource record?

15.For communication to exist on a TCP/IP network using DNS, each host must be identified by a resource
record in the DNS database. Which type of DNS resource record is used to identify individual hosts?

16.You must configure DNS to hide detailed information about your network but to still provide name
resolution and access to your resources. What step can you take to accomplish this?

17.A ____ record is the A record in the parent zone for an authoritative DNS server hosting the child zone
for the delegated subdomain.

18.DNS servers perform iterative queries in the process of completing a recursive query. What do the DNS
servers do with the information learned from the iterative queries?
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19.Your Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network has one primary DNS server and two secondary DNS
servers. Several changes are made to the zone database on the primary server. How will the
secondary DNS servers learn about the changes to the primary server’s zone database?

20.You are a network administrator for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network. To improve
performance, you would like to reduce iterative queries by specifying where your DNS server
forwards queries. What should you do to accomplish this?

21.You are an administrator for a complex Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network that has several DNS
servers. Your network performance has degraded, and you are concerned because most of your
business is done over the Internet. You surmise that DNS traffic is part of the problem. How can you
reduce DNS traffic on your network?

22.You administer a private Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network that has a standard primary DNS
server and a standard secondary DNS server. Both servers are used to resolve internal DNS names.
Your network has an external DNS server that is separated from the internal network by a firewall.
Internal users complain that they cannot resolve names on the Internet. What should you do to
resolve this problem?

23.You are the administrator of a network that has three Microsoft Windows Server 2003 domain controllers
and one Microsoft Windows NT 4 member server named Server Four. One of the Windows Server
2003 domain controllers hosts the primary DNS zone, and the Windows NT 4 member server acts as
a secondary DNS server. You would like to convert your DNS structure to include only Active
Directory–integrated zones. What step must you take to accomplish this?

24.You discover that an administrator has adjusted the default Time To Live (TTL) value for your
company’s primary DNS zone to 5 minutes. What is the most likely effect of this change?

25.A name used to access network resources through WinSock is referred to as a(n) __________________.

26.The period of time during which a DNS query is allowed to remain within the DNS cache is called its ____.
27.What is the most common task for a DNS server?

28.What happens in a reverse lookup?

29.A WINS server is a central repository for ______________________________.

30.An FQDN is simply a host name followed by the appropriate _____________________.

31.What does a registrar do?

32.The DNS cache is also referred to as the ____ _____ cache.

33. What utility can be used to purge the DNS cache?

34.Which two methods of name resolution are available on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network?

35.Which are four key benefits of using DNS for name resolution?

36.There are two types of DNS zones. One type is used to look up FQDNs, and the other is used to look up
IP addresses. What are the two types of zones?

37.What are the four types of standard DNS zones?

38.What are the four DNS server types?

39.A DNS query can result in four possible response types. Give four valid query response options.
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40.Which four events can trigger a zone transfer?

41.Microsoft Windows Server 2003 supports two types of zone transfers: IXFR and AXFR. Describe each
of these transfers.

42. You are the network administrator of a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network. Your network
has a primary DNS server and two secondary DNS servers. All of the DNS servers are on
member servers. How can you improve and simplify the management of replication and zone-
transfer traffic on your network and, at the same time, increase fault tolerance of your DNS
system? Give three methods to accomplish this.

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