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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. To enable aging for a particular zone - you have to enable this feature both at the ______ level.






2. This operation performs a zone transfer from the secondary zone's master server regardless of the serial number in the secondary zone's SOA resource record.






3. DNSSEC in Win Server 2008 R2 allows a ______ to validate DNS data on behalf of its Win 7 clients.






4. The ______ partition is replicated among all DCs that are also DNS servers in a particular domain






5. Used to facilitate the resolution of single-label computer names in a large network.






6. By default - zone transfers are ______ from any zone.






7. This operation reloads the secondary zone from the local storage.






8. Alias resource records are sometimes called canonical names (CNAME). These records allow you to ______ a single host.






9. If either of the default application directory partitions is deleted or damaged - you can re-create them in DNS Manager by right-clicking the server node and choosing ______.






10. What does the 10 refer to in the following example: _ldap._tcp SRV 0 0 389 dc1.lucernepublishing.com.SRV 10 0 389 dc2.lucernepublishing.com.






11. For a delegation to be implemented - the parent zone must contain a _____ and an _____ (called a glue record) pointing to each authoritative server of the delegated domain.






12. To enable GlobalNames zone support - At an elevated command prompt - type the following: ______.






13. The ______ allows you to specify the DNS query suffixes - prefixes - FQDNs - or reverse lookup subnets for which a Win 7 or Win Server 2008 R2 client will request DNSSEC.






14. To ______ a zone is to create a new zone for a subdomain within a DNS namespace and relinquish authority of that new zone.






15. DNSSEC enables a DNS server to ______ the resource records in its zones.






16. When you create a new zone - two types of records required for the zone are automatically created. List them.






17. ______ resource records are used to specify the location of specific services in a domain.






18. By right-clicking a secondary zone in the DNS Manager console tree - you can use the shortcut menu to perform the following secondary zone update operations:






19. ______ zones provide a means to offload DNS query traffic in areas of the network where a zone is heavily queried and used.






20. The source zones from which secondary zones acquire their info are called ______ - and the data copy procedures through which this info is regularly updated are called zone transfers.






21. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines how long a secondary server waits before retrying a failed zone transfer. Normally - this time is less than the refresh interval. The default value is 10 minutes.






22. You use Group Policy to configure DNS clients to _________________.






23. Active Directory-integrated zones perform time stamping for dynamically registered records by default - even before aging and scavenging are enabled. However - primary standard zones place time stamps on dynamically registered records in the zone onl






24. When you create a new zone - two types of records required for the zone are automatically created: ______






25. The ______ partition is replicated among all DCs that are also DNS servers in every domain in an AD forest.






26. Any of three events can ________________: When the refresh interval of the primary zone's SOA resource record expires - When a server hosting a secondary zone boots up - When a change occurs in the configuration of the primary zone and this primary






27. The four options presented on the _____________________ are the following: 1. To All DNS Servers In This Forest 2. To All DNS Servers In This Domain 3. To All DCs In This Domain 4. To All DCs Specified In The Scope Of This Directory Partition






28. You can perform a delegation only from a ________________.






29. The ______ service uses SRV records to locate DCs in a domain by searching the domain for the LDAP service.






30. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






31. Public key cryptography provides ______ - which means that separate keys are used to encrypt and decrypt data.






32. The Zone Transfers tab also allows you to configure ______ to secondary servers whenever a change occurs at the primary zone.






33. To create a custom application directory partition - type the following command:






34. The first step in preparing a zone for DNSSEC is to back up the current zone data. To back up a zone - type the following command at an elevated command prompt: _______.






35. Together - aging and scavenging provide a mechanism to ______ resource records - which can accumulate in zone data over time. Both aging and scavenging are disabled by default.






36. The ______ option stores the zone in the user-created application directory partition specified in the associated drop-down list box.






37. Manually created resource records for all zone types are assigned a time stamp of 0; this value indicates that they ______ be aged.






38. When scavenging is not enabled - you can perform manual scavenging in zones by right-clicking the server icon in the DNS Manager console tree and then choosing ______.






39. A ______ zone is similar to a secondary zone - but it contains only those resource records necessary to identify the authoritative DNS servers for the master zone.






40. What is the name of the record that contains a hash of the public key in a delegated subdomain?






41. To add an NS record - double-click any existing NS record in DNS Manager and add the server data to the ______ tab.






42. A ______ is a data structure in AD that distinguishes data for different replication purposes.






43. To enlist other DNS servers in the partition - type the following command:






44. The ______ option stores the new zone in the Domain-DnsZones partition. Every DC in the local domain and on which the DNS Server role is installed will receive a copy of the zone.






45. A ______ zone provides original read-write source data that allows the local DNS server to answer DNS queries authoritatively about a portion of a DNS namespace.






46. When the zone is stored in a file instead of AD - by default the primary zone file is named zone_name.dns - and this file is located in the ______ folder on the server.






47. A ______ is a public key for a remote DNS server that is trusted and able to provide DNSSEC responses.






48. During this operation - the server hosting the local secondary zone determines whether the serial number in the secondary zone's SOA resource record has expired and then pulls a zone transfer from the master server.






49. To configure notifications - click ______ on the Zone Transfers tab when zone transfers are enabled.






50. TTL values are not relevant for resource records within their authoritative zones. Instead - the TTL refers to ______ in nonauthoritative servers. A DNS server that has cached a resource record from a previous query discards the record when that reco