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Windows 2008 Server Network Infrastructure

Subject : it-skills
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1. Which of the following is a 32-bit integer representing the maximum time - in seconds - that a DNS server or client caches this resource record before it is discarded?






2. In what year was DNS introduced?






3. The primary DNS server for a zone is not required to perform an ______________






4. After sending a zone transfer request - which option shows how long (in seconds) the zone's secondary server waits before sending another request?






5. Of the four types of routes that can be found in a routing table - which of the following cannot be found?






6. A starting address of 192.0.0.0 and an ending address of 223.255.255.255 is a member of which network class?






7. A DHCP client will perform the initial lease process in all of the following situations with the exception of __________.






8. All DHCP servers that receive the DHCPDISCOVER message and have a valid configuration for the client will broadcast __________.






9. Where would you find the Alternate Configuration tab?






10. Where are zone transfers initiated?






11. Which of the following is not a key benefit provided by DHCP for those managing and maintaining a TCP/IP network?






12. Which type of volume is made up of free space from multiple disks and uses RAID-0 striping to interleave data across the disks - thus improving the read performance of the volume?






13. To support and use the DHCP service across multiple subnets - routers connecting each subnet should comply with the DHCP/BOOTP relay agent capabilities described in __________.






14. One example of an NPS Policy Setting includes IP properties that specify IP address assignment behavior. Which is not an option?






15. If a system will be a DHCP server - what type of address should you set?






16. Which option enables internal clients to connect to the Internet using a single - external IP address?






17. Which type of volume consists of free space contained on a single physical disk?






18. By using the Routing and Remote Access service - Windows Server 2008 can be configured as a _____________






19. What is made up of free space from multiple physical disks?






20. The core function of DHCP is to __________.






21. A static-routed IP environment is best suited to small - _________ - static IP internetworks.






22. After the client receives an offer from at least one DHCP server - it broadcasts a DHCPREQUEST message to all DHCP servers with 0.0.0.0 as the source address and __________ as the destination address.






23. Once a Server Core computer is installed - how can it be managed locally?






24. Using DHCP relay agents ______ the need to have a DHCP server on every subnet.






25. Which mutual authentication method offers encryption of both authentication data and connection data?






26. DHCP frees system administrators from __________each host on the network.






27. IPv4 addresses are commonly represented by using what type of notation?






28. What is the length of time that the DNS service waits before failing a recursive lookup that has been retried?






29. Sent by clients via broadcast to locate a DHCP server per RFC 2131 - which message may include options that suggest values for the network address and lease duration?






30. What is the primary means of identifying network devices and services in a Windows Server 2008 network?






31. Which generic authentication method does not encrypt authentication data?






32. Because the software is installed into a single partition - the specified _______________ actually apply to the space within the partition being used and not to the total drive size.






33. The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) was designed for ___________ that had no means of permanently storing their TCP/IP settings






34. Which one-way authentication method offers encryption of both authentication data and connection data (the same cryptographic key is used in all connections; this method supports older Windows clients - such as Windows 95 and Windows 98)?






35. What is the minimum number of physical computers required to allow you to use a KMS key?






36. What is the length of time that the DNS service waits before retrying a query made during a recursive lookup?






37. The process of obtaining an IP address for a computer name (for example - "ComputerA") is called __________.






38. Which file is used by the DHCP database as a temporary storage file during database index maintenance operations (this file sometimes resides in the %systemroot%System32Dhcp directory after a system failure)?






39. A conditional forwarder in an Active Directory environment can be replicated to any of the following except all __________.






40. This is not a component of DNS?






41. The default installation of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition allows you to install 17 different server roles. Which of the following is not a role that you can install?






42. Which zone is a copy of a zone that contains only those resource records necessary to identify the authoritative DNS servers for that zone?






43. IPv6 uses 128 bits - or 16 bytes - for addressing - thus providing 2128 (about ______) unique addresses.






44. Which column of the IP Routing Table indicates the gateway value for each routing table entry?






45. Which zone enables a host to determine another host's name based on its IP address?






46. Which of the following apply to all clients within a scope and are the most frequently used set of options?






47. Routers are considered components of which layer?






48. In a Windows Server 2008 network - the primary means of locating network devices and network services is through the use of __________.






49. RARP was essentially the opposite of what protocol?






50. A striped volume uses which type of striping to interleave data across the disks?