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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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 ______.






16. 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






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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 ______.






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






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






27. 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.






28. ______ 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.






29. 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.






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






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 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






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






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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






45. ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






46. 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.






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






48. 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






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






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