Hands-On Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Chapter 8 Solutions

Review Questions
1. Your company has set up a Web server to publish special promotions that have expiration dates. The
marketing group is asking you if IIS has features to help with expiring promotional Web files after a
certain number of days. How might this be possible?
Answer: d. Configure the HTTP Headers default Web site properties to expire documents.

2. Your users are calling to complain that e-mail is not going through an IIS server. How might you
troubleshoot this problem?
Answer: b. Make sure the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol service is started.

3. You have set up a Web server and now your users are asking for a better way to publish their Web
pages than to hand-carry them to your office for you to install on the server. Which of the following
can you set up to make you and the users more productive?
Answer: a. Create one or more virtual directories.

4. You are in a planning meeting to set up a new network that will have Internet access, one Windows
2003 Web server, and four Windows 2003 servers for general file and printing access. Many of the
clients are still using Windows 98 and NetBIOS applications. The organization for which you are
planning has decided to implement Active Directory. Which of the following should they include in
their planning? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: a., b., c., and d.

5. You are planning to implement a Web server that will also handle Internet newsgroups. Which of the
following services specifically enables you to support newsgroups
Answer: b. NNTP

6. You have configured DHCP to automatically update DNS servers, but the problem is that old leases are
sometimes not removed or updated in the DNS servers. This is causing some mismatched IP
resolutions. What can you do to solve the problem?
Answer: c. You need to configure DHCP to discard lookup records when their leases are denied.

7. Which of the following can you manage from the Internet Information Services tool? (Choose all that
apply.)
Answer: a., c., and d.

8. What is the advantage of choosing to integrate DNS with Active Directory?

Answer: d. DNS is replicated through Active Directory replication capabilities.

9. In Microsoft DHCP __________________________________. (Choose all that apply.)

Answer: a. you can exclude one or more addresses out of a range of leased addresses

10. Which of the following are supported by Microsoft Internet Information Services? (Choose all that
apply.)
Answer: a., b., c., and d.

11. When you create a DNS server, what type of record would you most likely find in a reverse lookup
zone?
Answer: a. pointer resource record

12. What tool do you use to install IIS?

Answer: c. Control Panel’s Add or Remove Programs option

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13. You have determined that your Web site handles about 2,000 connections at a given time. This is a lot
of traffic, and the Web site seems sluggish. Which of the following should you try first?
Answer: c. Tune the Web server performance parameter to lower the connections to 1,500 or 1,000.

14. Which of the following are permissions that can be set on a virtual directory via the Internet
Information Services tool? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: a. and b.

15. You have set up a Web server and now the management in your company wants to use it for
multimedia training presentations. What should you install on the Web server?
Answer: b. Windows Media Services

16. One of your network’s DNS servers does not seem to be providing DNS lookup services, even though
the server is running and there is no apparent problem. What should you try? (Choose all that apply.)
Answer: b. and d.

17. You are setting up a DHCP scope in which all of the clients are portable computers. For how long
should you establish leases?
Answer: d. eight to 24 hours

18. If you want to use dynamic IP address updating, which of the following should you do?
Answer: e. only a. and b.

19. Which of the following is an authoritative DNS server?

Answer: a. primary DNS server

20. Your boss has worked on computer systems that support using a hashing algorithm for security and
prefers this method. Can IIS Web security be configured for this security method?
Answer: c. Yes, by configuring to use digest authentication.

21. When you are planning the installation of a DNS server, which of the following is important to include
in your planning?
Answer: a. The DNS server should have a static IP address and not one leased by DHCP.

22. Users are not able to access your Web server, and when you try accessing it from your office you
cannot either. Which of the following might you do?
Answer: e. only a. and b.

23. How can you configure a server as a Telnet Server?

Answer: a. Use the net start tlntsvr command in the Command Prompt Window

24. The research group in your organization is setting up a Web server for a VPN that must have very
restricted access. In a committee meeting, they are asking you to list methods that can be used to
restrict access. Which of the following are possible?
Answer: b. Restrict access through IP addressing.

25. How many scopes can be configured in Microsoft DHCP, per Microsoft's recommendation?
Answer: d. 1,000