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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






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






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






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






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






6. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






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






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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.






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






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






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






21. 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 ______.






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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:






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






36. 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: _______.






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






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






45. 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






46. Scavenging can occur only when ______ is enabled.






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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.