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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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 ______.






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






15. 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.






16. 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 ______.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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






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






23. 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:






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






25. ______ 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






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






36. What are the server requirements for storing a zone in AD?






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






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






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 ______ 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.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






45. 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.






46. 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






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






48. 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






49. 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






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