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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. The ______ option stores the new zone in the ForestDnsZones partition. Every DC in the entire forest and on which the DNS Server role is installed will receive a copy of the zone.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. You must be a member of the ______ group to create an application directory partition.






8. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






9. 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: _______.






10. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






12. A secondary zone will not be recognized as a valid name server until it contains a valid copy of zone data. For the secondary zone to obtain this data - you must first ______ to that server.






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






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






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






16. ______ in DNS refers to the process of using time stamps to track the age of dynamically registered resource records.






17. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines the default Time to Live (TTL) that is applied to all resource records in the zone. The default value is one hour.






18. 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.






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






20. 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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. A ______ is a database containing records that associate names with addresses for a defined portion of a DNS namespace.






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






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






27. 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.






28. There are three basic steps in _______________: 1. Enable GlobalNames zone support. 2. Create the GlobalNames zone. 3. Populate the GlobalNames zone.






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






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






31. 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.






32. The _____ option stores the zone in the domain partition. Every DC in the local domain will receive a copy of the zone - regardless of whether the DNS Server role is installed on that DC.






33. The GlobalNames zone is compatible only with DNS servers running ______. Therefore - it cannot replicate to servers running earlier versions of Windows Server.






34. DNS delegations are automatically used to separate ______ in a single forest.






35. 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.






36. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines how long a secondary DNS server waits before querying the master server for a zone renewal. The default value for this setting is 15 minutes.






37. By default - DCs include two application directory partitions reserved for DNS data: ______.






38. 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.






39. The no-refresh interval is the period after a time stamp during which a zone or server rejects a ______ refresh. The default no-refresh interval is 7 days.






40. For a DC to fall within the scope of such a directory partition - you must ______ that DC in the partition.






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






42. 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.






43. 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:






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






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






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






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






48. Consequently - when aging is enabled - dynamically registered resource records can be scavenged after ___ days by default.






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






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