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NIS Overview - Quiz

Each question is worth one point. Select the best answer or answers for each question.
1. What is NIS? Please select all the correct answers.
  A. A system that allows users to log on to all machines in a network using one account
  B. A client-server database that provides an authentication service
  C. A single master NIS server containing the original copies of all NIS maps
  D. A slave server that helps to distribute the load on the database and provides a backup

2. What makes up an NIS domain? Please select the best answer.
  A. All the slave servers on the system
  B. The master NIS server
  C. The total of NIS clients and servers
  D. The NIS clients only