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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. ______ are public keys from other zones that are used to validate digitally signed records originating from those zones and from delegated subdomains that are also DNSSEC-compatible.






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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:






15. In this way - digital signatures use ______ cryptography to prove that information is unspoofed and unchanged.






16. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






21. What kind of zones do not automatically perform time stamping on dynamically created resource records?






22. The ___________________ dialog box enables you to modify two key settings related to aging and scavenging: 1. the no-refresh interval 2. and the refresh interval






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






28. The value you configure in the ______ text box determines the length of time that a secondary server - without any contact with its master server - continues to answer queries from DNS clients. After this time elapses - the data is considered unrelia






29. 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.






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






31. The refresh interval is the time after the no-refresh interval during which time stamp refreshes are ______ and resource records are not scavenged. The default refresh interval is 7 days.






32. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






35. The most common resource records you need to create manually include the following:






36. Also recommended for use in the following scenarios: When a host specified in an A resource record in the same zone needs to be renamed - When a generic name for a well-known server such as www needs to resolve to a group of individual computers tha






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






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






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






40. Win 7 clients can be configured to request DNSSEC through the Name Resolution Policy Table (NRPT) in ______.






41. 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.






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






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






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






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






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