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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






15. 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.






16. 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.






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






18. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






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






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






26. 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: _______.






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






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






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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. 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






38. ______ 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.






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. 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 ______.






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






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






45. 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






46. 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 ______.






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






48. 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.






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






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