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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






2. 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






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






4. When you do not store a zone in AD - the zone is called a ______ zone - and zone data is stored in text files on the DNS server.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






17. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






27. 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.






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. 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.






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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:






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






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






44. 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 ______.






45. 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






46. 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






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






48. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






49. 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.






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