Hands-On Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Chapter 1 Solutions

Review Questions

1. The Biology Department at a university is interested in hosting and maintaining its own simple
Web site to enable students and researchers to view information about the department and to post
news about what various alumni are doing. Which of the following Windows Sever 2003 platform
is the best fit for their needs?
Answer: c. Web Edition

2. Which of the following is an example of a diagnostic IP address?

Answer: a. 127.0.0.1

3. What feature of Windows Server 2003 allows you to run MS-DOS programs?
Answer: b. virtual DOS machine

4. Active Directory can be used to centrally organize which of the following?

Answer: d. all of the above

5. You are setting up a network for a single office consisting of six workstations and one printer.
Users want to occasionally share data. All users need access to the printer. What network model
would best meet the requirements?
Answer: b. peer-to-peer

6. _______________________ is the ability to connect two or more servers to enable fail-safe

computing and appear as one server.
Answer: d. Clustering

7. In Windows Server 2003 ___________________________ contains recently resolved physical

addresses.
Answer: a. ARP cache

8. Which of the following operating systems can connect to Windows Server 2003? (Circle all that
apply.)
Answer: a. Windows NT Workstation 4.0, b. Windows 98, c. Windows XP Professional, and d.
Macintosh

9. Which of the following is a connection-oriented protocol that helps ensure the reliability of a data
transmission?
Answer: c. TCP

10. Your company is planning to implement a large database to track information about 62,800
customers, and that database needs to be housed on an operating system that is scalable to 12
processors and that has high availability. Which of the following operating systems is the best
match for this application?
Answer: c. Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition

11. You have been asked to develop a network upgrade plan for an accounting firm. Administrators at
the firm have expressed the need to reduce the TCO over a span of a year. Which of the following
recommendations would you include in your plan?
Answer: f. only a and c

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12. Which of the following operating systems support SMP technology? (Circle all that apply.)
Answer: a. Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, b. Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition,
c. Windows Server 2003, Web Edition, and d. Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition

13. What is the default subnet mask when you use Automatic Private IP Addressing?
Answer: a. 255.255.0.0

14. When you statically configure the IP address in Windows Server 2003, which of the following
parameters do you supply? (Circle all that apply.)
Answer: a. subnet mask and c. default gateway

15. Your organization’s network uses NetBIOS and host names, but one problem is that the network
does not have the ability to efficiently resolve NetBIOS names to IP addresses, particularly for
Internet communications. What does it need?
Answer: d. a WINS server

16. Which of the following is true about a router?

Answer: d. all of the above

17. If a Windows-based client is configured to “Obtain an IP address automatically” and cannot lease
an IP address from a DHCP server, it self-assigns itself an IP address from which of the following
ranges?
Answer: b. 169.254.0.1–169.254.255.254

18. A physical or MAC address is ___________________________________.

Answer: b. programmed into a network interface card

19. Dynamic IP addressing is enabled by a __________________________

Answer: a. DHCP server

20. One reason why Windows Server 2003 is reliable is because the kernel runs in
_________________________________.
Answer: c. privileged mode