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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






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






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 ______ refers to the process of deleting outdated resource records on which time stamps have been placed.






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






23. The refresh interval is the time after the no-refresh interval during which time stamp refreshes are ______ and resource records are not scavenged. The default refresh interval is 7 days.






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






25. 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:






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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






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






37. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






38. 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 ______.






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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






49. 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.






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