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MCTS: Configuring A DNS Zone Infrastructure

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






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






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






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






24. 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 ______.






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. The ______ option stores the new zone in the Domain-DnsZones partition. Every DC in the local domain and on which the DNS Server role is installed will receive a copy of the zone.






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






42. Increasing the refresh interval ______ zone transfer traffic.






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






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