Objective 1.02 Identify the Different Zone Types and Their Purpose 302 Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11foundation · easy

   Which zone type is at the top of the DNS hierarchy and provides referrals to all top-level domains?

   • AStub zone
   • BHint zone
   • CMaster zone
   • DRoot zone
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2. 12foundation · easy

   A DNS administrator wants to reduce the number of queries needed to reach a delegated child zone by keeping track of its name servers locally. Which zone type should be used?

   • AMaster zone
   • BHint zone
   • CStub zone
   • DSlave zone
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4. 13application · medium

   A company wants to ensure that its DNS zone data is always available even if the primary server fails. They plan to configure a secondary server that receives updates from the primary and serves the same data. The secondary server should not allow direct edits. Which zone type should be configured on the secondary server?

   • AMaster zone
   • BSlave zone
   • CStub zone
   • DHint zone
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5. 14foundation · easy

   A DNS administrator needs to configure a zone that will provide authoritative answers for a domain and also maintain a read-only copy on a secondary server for redundancy. Which two zone types are required?

   • AHint and Root
   • BMaster and Slave
   • CStub and Slave
   • DMaster and Stub
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6. 15foundation · easy

   What is the root zone in the DNS hierarchy?

   • AThe top-level DNS zone containing referrals to all top-level domains.
   • BA zone that provides a list of root server hints.
   • CA zone that contains only NS records of a child zone.
   • DA zone that holds the authoritative records for a single domain.
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