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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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 ______.






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. 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






4. ______ 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.






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. 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.






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 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






45. 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






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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






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