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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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






27. 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.






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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 ______.






34. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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:






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






47. 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 ______.






48. 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






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






50. 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.