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DNS Configuration and Troubleshooting Assignment

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    DNS Configuration and Troubleshooting Assignment Test Results: Submitted 2/5/13 11:36 AM Status Completed Score 4 out of 20 points Time Elapsed 18 minutes. Instructions Question 1 1 out of 1 points

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    Refer to the graphic above to answer the following question. You are the administrator of the westsim.private domain. The data for the westsim.private zone is stored in Active Directory. You have just opened a branch office in Phoenix. The branch office is connected to the main offices with a slow WAN link. The WAN link is unreliable and is sometimes down for 3 days at a time. You plan on replacing the connection in the future, but for now the link will have to be used. You configure a secondary zone for westsim.private at the Phoenix location accepting the default configuration. The SOA record for the zone is shown in the graphic above. What change should you make to prevent name resolution problems at the Phoenix location? Answer Selected Answer: Increase the Expires after value to 4 days. Question 2 0 out of 1 points

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    You are the network manager for the westsim.private domain. You are in the process of transitioning from IPv4 to IPv6 on your internal network. You want to configure DNS to provide hostname - to - IPv6 address and IPv6 address - to - hostname resolution for a specific IPv6 - only host. Which record types would you create? (Select two.) Answer Selected Answers: SRV PTR Question 3 0 out of 1 points You are the network administrator for your company's network. Your network consists of 8 Windows 2008 Server computers, 500 Windows XP Professional computers, and 5 UNIX servers. One of your Windows 2008 Server computers is your DNS server. The DNS zone is configured as an Active Directory - integrated zone. The DNS zone is also configured to allow dynamic updates. Users report that although they can access the Windows XP computers by host name, but they cannot access the UNIX servers by host name. What should you do? Answer Selected Answer: On the DNS server, manually create a HOSTS file that contains the records for the UNIX servers. Question 4 0 out of 1 points You are configuring the network for a new company with two sites: the main office is in Denver, and a branch office is in Phoenix. The sites are connected by a WAN link. All servers, including domain controllers, will run Windows Server 2008. All servers will be members of an Active Directory domain. The main office uses the domain of corp.westsim.com. All domain members are currently located only in the Denver location. The branch office uses the domain of research.corp.westsim.com. All domain members are located only in the Phoenix location. The following servers are in each location

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