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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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 ______.






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






31. 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.






32. ______ 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.






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






41. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. 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: