Question 1

1 out of 1 points

Twenty-six root name servers (named A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET., B.ROOTSERVERS.NET., etc.) act as the top of the DNS hierarchy worldwide. They provide the ultimate source for all name lookups that cannot be resolved through other means.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: False False 1 out of 1 points

Question 2

____________________ DNS servers are important because they provide a back-up copy of the domain database for a specific zone.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Secondary Secondary Slave 0 out of 1 points

Question 3

A(n) ____________________ seeks to resolve a domain name to a corresponding numeric IP address: it simply provides a symbolic domain name, and expects a numeric IP address in return.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: name query address request 1 out of 1 points

Question 4

Not all the data in a DNS cache has an expiration value.

Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: False False 1 out of 1 points

Question 5

Match each item with a statement below.

Answer Question Correct Match Selected Match B.

B. Consists of all elements of a domain name, in which each is followed by a period, and the final period stands for the FQDN root of the DNS hierarchy itself.

FQDN
E.

Allow you to define aliases for hosts in your zone, mostly

E.

as a convenience to make entering such data inside zone files more efficient. Resilient in the face of errors and failures. Are divided into four classes, of which only the Internet class is of interest to most users. Used primarily to determine if the IP address that a user presents matches the domain name from which the user claims to originate. The first reference implementation of DNS. Used primarily for commercial organizations. The first entry in any DNS file.

CNAME records
H. C.

CNAME records
H. C.

Robust DNS Robust DNS Resource records

G.

Resource records
G.

Reverse address lookups

A.

Reverse address lookups

A.

JEEVES
I.

JEEVES
I.

.com
F.

.com
F.

SOA record

SOA record

D. D. Goal is to speed access to specific domain names by Caching-only Caching-only storing a copy of the lookup data locally, while providing server server neither primary nor secondary DNS server functions.

Question 6
1 out of 1 points

The structure of the DNS database mirrors the structure of the domain namespace itself.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True 1 out of 1 points

Question 7

When a TCP/IP client uses a resolver to send a name query to a DNS server, that client obtains the address for the DNS server it queries from its TCP/IP configuration data.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True 1 out of 1 points

Question 8

A name query seeks to resolve an address to a domain name,and is also known as a(n) ____________________.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: inverse DNS query inverse DNS query

reverse DNS lookup

Question 9
1 out of 1 points

Domains (such as ibm.com) can be broken into subdomains (such as clearlake.ibm.com), as needed.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: True True 1 out of 1 points

Question 10

The ____________________ is distinguished from other name servers for a domain by its ability to always read its data from a zone file on disk when the DNS service starts up.
Answer Selected Answer: Correct Answer: Primary Master primary master