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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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1. 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.






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






3. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. ______ 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.






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






24. 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:






25. 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






26. 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






27. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. Used to facilitate the resolution of single-label computer names in a large network.






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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 ______.






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






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






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






49. The first step in preparing a zone for DNSSEC is to back up the current zone data. To back up a zone - type the following command at an elevated command prompt: _______.






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